New Locomotive Models in Lifetime Brass, and New Scale Model Kits from P-B-L ! Great models we've produced / released in "The Ideal Scale, "Sn3", within the past 12 months or so! Included among 'em are our just arrived Colorado & Southern "B4F" Class 2-8-0's along with the Rio Grand Sourthern's #74 ! On this page you'll also find photos of our long awaited West Side Lumber Company Shays #5 and #6, plus our "55 Ton Catalog Shays", which we offered lettered and numbered for our customers whose needs included a Private Roadname! These latter on a Reservation Only basis, of course. Also to be found here are photos of the "Winged Warriors" of the D&RGW: Their "Jordan" Spreaders ! And the latest edition to our ever expanding, all injection molded kit line. the S.P.'s "Type III" Boxcar with its heavy-duty "short" arch bar trucks! Great stuff from the likes of P-B-L !

~ Latest Update: Monday, March 31, 2008 ~

These models, our latest arrivals, heralded our entry into the realm of that "other" Colorado Narrow Gauge operation, the Colorado and Southern. Their prototypes were the last narrow gauge steamers to operate on the C&S, outlasting all the other C&S's motive power by a good five years! Click here, or on the Photo for more info !

The West Side Lumber Company's Shays 's #5 and #6, plus our 55 Ton "Catalog" Shays, which we offered lettered and numbered for our customers whose needs included a Private Roadname! These latter on a Reservation Only basis, of course.
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Probably the most widely used of all the mechanical contraptions on the 'Grande's roster, these "winged warriors" served yeoman duty during the winter months, then got called out to manicure the roadbed during the summer months.
'Sides that, although the R.G.S. never owned one, per se, the fact is they'd "borrow" OU on occasion to spruce up their mainline too 'cause the Jordan was real good at clearing away brush from the right-of-way.
So click on the photo above to see pics we shot of the three distinct versions of Spreader "OU" we created. Time's runnin' out on these, so if you're of a mind to add one to YOUR roster, best you do it quick, 'fore it's too late.

Click on the photo above for a look at our SECOND ESPEE Freight Car release, the "Type III Box Car, replete with another new Freight Car Truck; the "Heavy Duty", Short Wheelbase Arch Bar style truck which makes a total of 13 different Freight Car Trucks we've in our reportoire ! ( See photo below. )

And yes, these kits are supplied with our "New Generation" instructions which means that they have color illustrations and photos! 'Sides that we had another Lost Wax Brake Crossover Pipe so made 'specially for this kit so that, with very little effort, you can become a "contest quality" model builder with results like you see above!

If you "click around" on the RH Truck above you can view some close-ups of one of our most amazing trucks to date ! We've even managed to recreate the "double nuts" so they appear to be twisted 45 degrees, one from the other ! ! ! And notice too how the brake shoes have the proper ( for the Espee ) brake shoe hangers moulded onto them ? On these cars that set so high off the ground, EVERYTHING is exposed ! So if there's a detail missing, that shows too ! Which, of course, would never do, now would it ?
This truck is furnished with our kit #PBL-R32 , the S.P. 40k "Type III" box car. And of course, for you scratch builders, they're available separately ( in pairs ) too. ( Nickel Plated Brass Wheelsets included too. )
And too, Star Brand Paints has gone and created TWO special colors for our S.P. customers: The "Proper", as originally painted S.P. Freight Car Red; and a great shade of "Sunburned Red" which is how their wood cars mostly ended up looking, with the passing of time. Both colors AVAILABLE NOW in STAR's traditional semi-gloss so as to readily accept decals.

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