Has anyone ever seen a Williams brass scale Pennsylvania turbine.I reciently saw a sales flyer with a picture of a turbine described as scale and brass but I have never seen one.The flyer was dated 1990.I wonder if it was actually produced.
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Here is a link to one that was sold on a auction site but I don't ever recall seeing one in person.
Williams "cataloged" the PRR turbine but the model was actually imported by Sunset/3rd Rail and was delivered in a 3rd Rail box. It became the first 3rd Rail brass locomotive. Detailing is pretty sparse, typical of Williams brass of the time and not up to later 3rd Rail standards.
I had one and like Bob said it was sparse on detail and running ability. IMO it was junk.
I owned one (3rd Rail; as said above, they were never actually "Williams" locos)for years until earlier this year; I sold it to a friend after I purchased one of the new Lionel Legacy versions (a clear-coated Pilot version) from Legacy Station - good price, too.
He likes the loco.
They were not "junk".
The detailing is adequate.
The running characteristics are so-so - and nothing that an ERR Cruise Commander would
not cure.
Footnote: at the time, 3rd Rail offered an upgrade for these Williams-to-be locos. If you
sent them your loco, they would install a Pittman motor and lower (better) gearing. I
forget the price. I wish that I had done it, though mine was really a shelf queen.
2-rail scale guy here. I have one, and it is definitely not junk. Mort sold it to me at a discount because it was an early pilot model with no lettering on one side. I 2-railed it and have been happy with it for at least two decades. It runs fast for a 2-rail locomotive, but it is kind of fun to see those tuscan coaches fly by.
I have a Lionel 1991 version also and nacknamed it the Battleship since it's the biggest on the layout. I use is to pull 9 Railking 60 foot PRR Tuscan Streamline passenger cars.
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