Colorado Central Porter-Bell

Back when I was working on my Christmas list, I visited the Leadville Shops website to put some of their kits on it.  Once more, I drooled over Bill Meredith’s Colorado Central Porter-Bell kit.  I love the prototype, one of the most common NG locomotives of the 1870s.  But further, Bill designed it a an etched Nickel Silver kit...the same type of kit which is state of the art for the popular British model railway locomotive kit market.  I had wanted to look into Nickel Silver etchings for my Oahu Railway locomotives, so acquiring and building one of his kits can provide me with valuable experience towards building OR&L’s heavy 0-6-0s and 4-6-0s.