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My experience of brass locos is limited to a HOn3 brass WMC D&RGW T-12 I bought over 40 years ago. Nice to look at with its plenty of detail (compared to my usual fare of Marklin locos at that time), it had been a bad performer right out of the box. After painting and lettering it, I packed it away in disgust. It remained in the box for 40 years, almost forgotten. Only recently I rescued it from its grave. After a lot of tinkering and tweaking, it is now performing much better, although still miles away from what the Blackstone locos offer. To reach that kind of performance, I´d have to change the gears, install a new can motor with flywheel, and add a DCC sound decoder - the cost of this running up to about $ 300. That´s dangerously close to the price of a Blackstone loco! I have to admit there is something to brass locos, which is beyond explanation. Maybe it is the solid feel, that only brass locos have. I´d love to get my hands on a brass C-16 or C-18, but only if I could have it for dead cheap, as reworking it is a costly affair. There is no way I´d pay double or triple price, just to have a brass loco. Brass locos had their time, when labor was cheap in Japan, later Korea. With wages even in China being on the rise, there won´t be much future for hand-made brass engines, unless they are offered in kits, like in the UK.
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