I've found a couple of brass locomotives imported by a company called MORE. They are built by LIK in Korea. Anyone have any experience with these models. I have a collection of Samhongsa brass that run pretty well (some required tinkering) and I hear the benchmark Yellowstone is a great runner from Boo Rim. I believe N scale brass to be dead since KEY moved on to O scale and their last N offering was the 4-10-2 SP class in 2006. I doubt benchmark will make another N scale product (even though their run sold out). Perhaps this MORE company may offer promise to brass junkies like myself.
Their 4-8-4 is quite outstanding - http://www.spookshow.net/more484.html They also did a Challenger, although I have not had the opportunity to try one out yet - http://www.spookshow.net/more4664.html Both were released about ten years ago, so they are not new models. Cheers, -Mark
Mark, I located a GS-6 and the price seems somewhat reasonable. The pics I've seen look great and the detail appears to be spot on as long as the drivers are of the appropriate diameter.
My son has two More Co. SP GS-2's, one with skirts, the other without. These models are outstanding in both details and running capabilities. I treated them like "old brass" when he brought them over to our layout to test run, meaning I assumed they hadn't been run in a while so they'd probably cog a bit while the grease on the gears got spread around again, and I was correct. Both engines have nearly perfectly gauged drivers although the tender wheelsets needed re-gauging to run through my tight NMRA toleranced hand-built turnouts smoothly. I believe these sold for around 1200 (maybe more??) when offered by More Co., so if you're looking where I think you're looking, the 750 price is a good deal. I've been told these are NOS (New Old Stock) that have never been run, but were acquired in an inventory sell-off after More Co. went out of business. My son's engines look like they are brand new, as do the boxes. Here's a photo of the skirted GS-2 running on U.P. territory with an SP mail train at Echo Curve on our layout: Too bad this company went out of business. I would have loved to have seen what they produced next! Cheerio! Bob Gilmore
Good riddance to Key since the scammed many folks out of deposit money for locomotives they never manufactured....
Overland Imports still make a few pieces and are fairly reasonable used on Ebay. I was looking the other day and prices weren't too bad
You're correct in where I'm looking. I may have to pull the trigger on this one after the holidays if it is still there.
I purchased a couple as well. Womderful models. Here is More Models GS-2. a Key GS-5 and a More Models GS-6 Highly recomended, Wolf
