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Kevin, Thanks for advising of the eBay site. I just went into eBay and found the kit, sounded too interesting not to take a look at it . Not to often do you find something that old in such great shape. Instructions are even perfect. This is the Winton kit that comes with the solid cast boiler. You don't have to worry about adding weight to this engine. The details are also solid castings. I often wonder if the motors that came out with these models were powerful enough to pull all that weight around and still have enough power left for a train. This kit is lacking the tender of course, but over time it seems just anything you would ever want will show up on eBay, so why not a tender. I will venture a guess that the bidders on this kit are seeking the engine for the value of the original box, instructions, like new kit, not for a operating model. There are some real pros in construction of this type of model and could very well make a nice engine out of the kit, but they have soldering skills beyond the levels of most of us, and have the machine tools to do the rest of the work. I wish I had the ability. The same seller also has a Bowser brass locomotive kit. These are just as tough as Winton to find, and like Winton, you'll never find a Bowser listed in the same league with the Brown Book hand built models from Asia. This particular Bowser also has a solid cast boiler, and appears the tender might also be a casting. It will be a fun project for somebody, but lots of work of the skilled variety. Bowser got out of the brass modeling business rather quickly and their die-cast models that we are familiar with today have been made for several decades.
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