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I used to do N scale, and the brass stuff was severely limited back then. Now, I have the bug again, and am doing mostly plastic, but I bought a box of assorted locos and cars at a garage sale, and hit the jackpot, there were three brass locos in the bottom of the box. One of them, an RS3, has been repowered, and runs great. One of the other two, an F9, runs ok, but the GP-35 is pretty bad, and I have a Kato motor in the box with it, and it will soon be changed out. The open frame motors were pretty pitiful, and I always wondered why they used such a pitiful motor to drive a very expensive model when a cheap plastic model ran great. My friend's dad had a huge brass collection, and very few of them ran very well out of the box. He spent a lot of time remotoring and regearing them. He was a watchmaker and actually made gears and and other parts for them. Sadly, he's gone now, he would have been a great source for help and parts with cranky brass locos. He could really do nice painting too.. That box of stuff I got had a brand new MRC "momentum" pack, the three brass locos, two Athearn GP-9's NIB, 2 P2K GP20's NIB, a P2K FA1 unopened, a couple of Proto 1K F3's unopened, a basket case Bachman GP-40, a pair of new Athearn PA-1s (NIB), about 50 pieces of brass track, about a hundred pieces of new Atlas code 100 NS track, on the cards. About 12 Athearn box car kits, and a half dozen P2K undecorated car kits. All for $250 bucks. Almost all of it is NYC from the late 50's to the PC merger time period, just what I wanted! I sold the track to an old guy for 50 bucks. I just asked him to make an offer, and I didn't expect him to offer that much, so I took it right away. Between that stuff and the stuff from Ebay, I have over 20 running locos, and a couple of buzzers, and a couple of totally dead ones, along with over 30 running cars, and another 20 or so waiting to be built.. Now I have to set up some track to run the stuff. No money right now though. And I have to fight off bidding on stuff on ebay. There's some good deals on flex track...hmmm.
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