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I did my usual Friday afternoon look on eBay. There is a beautiful Key Imports PRR B-8 0-6-0 switcher, factory painted at a current price of $195. Key Imports as well as Sunset were the first importers to begin using Samhongsa for a builder. You couldn't tell a Sunset engine from a Key engine without the box. <br /> <br />This particular B-8 is factory painted in the Brunswick Green scheme. This price or even close to this price is cheap for the engine. When this model was produced by Samhongsa and imported by Key the level of quality and finish was almost up to the Japanese imports that cost three times as much. The paint job on this model is really superb and if it runs as good as it looks it would be a winner. I'd place the value on this engine at least in the $300 plus ballpark, with the paint job worth at least another $100. <br /> <br />The Sunset Prestige series of imports were some of the most recent models that Sunset has sold, although they did not use Samhongsa for the builder. The Prestige series locomotives were built in higher quantities than the typical Sunset model and subsequently allowed Sunset to sell them for less money. Sunset chose some of the most popular prototype engines to model in this series to assure the popularity to sell the quantity of engines that they built. They have a good reputation for running quality, although some of the really fine details have been omitted in order to keep costs down, but not noticeable to most people.
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