Some ancient cast brass finds at the show in Muncie Indiana

Those are sweet!  Would love to take that Adams FT shell off your hands!!  I suspect the Bronze GG1 would have been Alexander, similar to this one.

That GG1 looks just like it, but his shell had the raised Keystones in place on each side.  I got a frame fitted to the FT and trucks with non powered wheels fitted.  Need to come up with gear driven AN wheel sets with gear towers on each end and a motor for it.  Just wish the previous owner had not filled away the twin radiator fans at the rear of the roof.  With a black roof it wont be to noticiable hopefully.   

I thought the GG1 might have been a House of Duddy casting…

well, if you look closely, the raised keystone was ground off. Keep in mind there were a few iterations of the Alexander casting and depending on your source at least the shell was used by Walthers/Baldwin postwar and then later Ed sold it to Duddy.

Here is a Baldwin version, note the raised keystone.

I also have a Duddy Aluminum shell.  Some conjecture over when and who transitioned from bronze shells to Aluminum etc.

A model of a PA1 is ancient?  Now you made me feel real old🙂

Both the PA1 and FT are neat finds and look great.  I kind of like the idea of leaving the PA1 as is.  A great conversation starter.

And I may leave them both polished brass.  But I will replace the missing ladders and add grab irons.  I need to find some angled numberboxes for the PA and some lenses for the headlights.  I will put working lights in both.  They do have a unique "sparkle" factor being polished up! 

I hope you can do the PA in NKP paint.

Me to, eventually.  I am not going to try to do the notch in the nose for the bell. It would be as delivered to the NKP. 

I think the NKP PAs looked nicer without the bell in the nose.

Didnt they have a pair of Wabco single note honker horns as delivered?  I know the bell was put the nose by the NKP.  I thought I read that the M5 horn was something they did after delivery from Alco. 

Glad you found some treasures at our Muncie show!  Wishing you well in how you decide to restore your finds!

Thanks Brian, our live steam group had lots of fun running our trains as well.   Looking forward to next year.  now if I could get a O scale 2 rail modular group started in this part of Indiana.