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~ FACTORY PAINTED "PLANTATION VERSION" 16 TON SHAY ~
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Believe it or not, this is how most of the very early Shays looked when they
were built. That was back in the days before OSHA, and frivelous lawsuits, and
any sort of "standards", pretty much... 'Looks like a darned good way to get
hurt, doesn't it?
Everything on this model is out in the open for all to see... And we mean EVERYTHING! So feast yer eyes on her for awhile. Then conjure up an image of her, with her tender deck piled high with wood; and a pair of grimy guys with equally grimy overall's trying to keep her under steam... Each of our Shays will be equipped with an Engine Crew. The few we finish as "FOREGROUND MODELS ®" will have that crew painted and installed. The others we'll leave the painting up to you 'cause we can think of a dozen different variation of how each of the guys could have looked, and you probably can too. These models RUN every bit as good as they LOOK! A three day "think tank" visit with the builder last month brought a meeting of minds that, "Engineer-to-Engineer", resulted in what you see here, plus what you will yet see when you get to see when you first set yours on your track! Our Pre-Production Samples of the Coal and Oil Fired Versions were run continuously for days on end. (Days and nights as a matter of fact!) The results? About the only thing that changed was the polish job on the gears! Smooth, Powerful, yet virtually silent operation is the best way to describe how they ran! And tractive effort? Well, we have seven somewhat battered freight cars that live on our test layout... ( Stuff that for one reason or another is unsaleable generally ends up there. Partially completed one-offs and the like...) Among these are five of our Injection Molded Plastic Cars built-up, plus an "0404" Brass Caboose and a Conoco Tank with bad trucks. (The latter won't roll down a 3.5 percent grade without help...) Yet each one of these little shays could PUSH this mongrel of a consist up our ruling 3.5% grade without so much as ever spinning a driver! ABOUT THAT EXPOSED GEAR: These models are SMALL. Their drive wheels are only 24" in diameter in real life. That's 3/8" of an inch in 1:64 scale. And since we know of no steam locomotive that was silent when under fire, the ability to install SOUND was a NUMBER 1 PRIORITY with us. The only way to pull this off was to put the sound in the Water Bunker, and the motor vertically INSIDE that "T" Boiler! And even in this tiny model, it works! ( Sound installed in "Factory Painted w/Sound and FOREGROUND MODELS ® Only. Utilization of our SS-52 Speaker really helps!) So we have the best of both worlds! SOUND, plus a model that runs Flawlessly! The only thing being objectionable in the entire package is that exposed gear. But treating it to a coating of our NEOLUBE® from time to time will keep it lubricated, and nigh onto invisible. Shucks, soon as the crank starts spinning, the gear is just a blur of motion anyway. And what one of you could resist seeing her in operation? After all, she was meant to PERFORM! |
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Call 707-462-7680 to talk to a REAL PERSON! Really! DELIVERY WILL COMMENCE EARLY IN JANUARY ! 
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