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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by FundyNorthern [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by sailor38 Back in the sixties, PFM and, I believe Tenshodo, among others, offered brass locos in the $300.00 range. They featured lost wax castings and a high degree of detail but were unpainted. [/quote] I think they may have been much cheaper than that. As a teenage model railroader in the late 1950's and early 1960's I purchased a brass 2-6-0 with a Vanderbilt tender for $35.00 and a Shay for $60.00. I had a paper route and the hobby shop owner allowed me to pay for them a with few dollars a week. They were both undecorated and brush painted and hand lettered them. They were sold off when I got out of the hobby, wish I had them now! [:(] Bob Boudreau [/quote] In 1969, my first PFM NKP Berkshire was 64.95 unpainted. The PFM Santa Fe 3776 class 4 8 4 was 99 bucks and some of the Tenshodo painted models were in the unheard of price of 125 to 145. These prices rose sharply durning the early 1970's as the dollar to yen changed to favor Japan. By 1975, the Tenshodo challengers were about 585 and my first Key Challengers imported in 1986 cost me about 700, but that was not list price off course. I was shocked when the rerun of the PFM imported Tenshodo Big Boys came in at one-thousand dollars. I cancelled my Tenshod order and purchased a USH O scale Big Boy for just a few dollars more. Today, the Trix runs better than any single early run brass that was made, unless you worked on it. We have better models today available to us, but they are not cheap.
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