Brass Modeling photos
Brass is the top shelf of this hobby — hand-assembled, imported, and unforgiving of sloppy work. This album follows an unpainted brass Northern with a Vanderbilt tender and boiler-front air pumps posing and running with the Empire Builder heavyweight consist, plus a set of Rio Grande F-units for contrast. Every runby here is a test lap: checking gauge, pickup, and drivetrain smoothness before the paint shop ever gets a vote.