Dateline: 2012... GLACIER PARK MODELS was proud to announce the release of a never-before-modeled series of the S.P. "F" Class 2-10-2's in Lifetime Brass for the astute Collector of Fine Hand Crafted Brass Models and the Operator alike! There were FIVE distinctively different versions produced, including two locomotives in the F-1 class, one as an F-3, and two being F-5's. These models were constructed to our own proprietary specifications and drawings for us by South Korea's Premier Builder of Brass Models, Boo-Rim Precision. Some of these models didn't even last long enough to pose for photos, but this site will give you some idea of were some of the finest "F" Class models ever produced... We're Glacier Park Models, P.O. Box 244, Ukiah, California, 95482.

Updated: Monday, May 6, 2013

DATELINE 2012: GLACIER PARK MODELS was pleased to announce the release of a series of our two-years-in-the-making S.P. "F" Class 2-10-2's in Lifetime Brass, all variations of which had never before been modeled! Designed to please the most discriminating Collector of Fine Hand Crafted Brass Models and the knowledgeable S.P. Operator alike, no less than FIVE distinctively different versions were produced, including two locomotives in the F-1 class; one F-3 class engine, and two F-5 class engines.

As you will see in perusing the photos below, several of our model choices were pulling unique tenders, one outstanding example being engine number 3748 behind which you will see one of the HUGE 252 R-1 tender which came to the Espee's roster from the C&O during the war years. (This same style tender was used behind the famous AC-9 Articulateds after their conversion to oil in the late 1940's...)
These models were constructed to our own proprietary specifications and drawings for us by South Korea's Premier Builder of Brass Models, Boo-Rim Precision.

These models are SOLD OUT... Sorry...

Engine number 3616 is our feature photo on this page. She was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Company and added to S.P.'s ever expanding steam locomotive roster in 1919, where she would remain in service right up into the cessation of steam operations in 1955.

As can be seen here, she is followed by a class 120 C-2 "Vanderbilt" tender which rides upon a pair of unusual-for-the-class Commonwealth "Equalized Swing Motion" Trucks...

Catalog Number GPM-3616.2 - Sold Out...

Also produced was this special version of engine number 3616 with that unique 120 SC-1 "Whaleback" tender in tow.

The photographer caught her in this guise in 1947, an appearance she would carry for at least a year to follow.

This unusual version bore our Catalog Number GPM-3616.3 - Sold Out...

Engine number 3652 also bore the "F-1" Class designation, but she was truly unique for several reasons:

1. She was the last of the "F-1's" built.

2. She was built by Schenectady.

3. She came from the Arizona Eastern.

Catalog Numbers: GPM-3652.1 = Pre 1946; GPM-3652.2 = Post 1946 Paint - Sold Out...

Engine number 3654 was built by Baldwin in 1921 as an "F-3". She was one of fifteen engines in that class. You will note that she has the huge cast steel trailing truck common to the later engines, but this one has no power booster engine.

Trailing behind her is a class 120 C-6 "Vanderbilt" tender riding on a pair of 6 wheel Commonwealth Steel Company trucks.

She bore our Catalog Number GPM-3654.2 - Sold Out...

Engine number 3748 was an "F5"... Her trailing truck is equipped with a power booster, which gave her an additional 10,000 pounds of tractive effort when starting out. Her tender is a Class 14 252-R-1 which she acquired in 1949 and which was the SP's heaviest tender, possessing the greatest water capacity of all. Talk about unique!

She was our Catalog Number GPM-3748.2. Now Sold Out...

We chose "F-5" Class engine number 3757 not only because it so typifies the "look and feel" of the Espee's burley modern steam power, it too is equipped with a not-so-common tender. Number 3757 is followed by a class 120 C-8 "Vanderbilt" style tender. Compare the fuel bunkers of this one with the 120 C-6 tenders and you'll readily see there are differences.

Catalog Number GPM-3757.2. Sold Out...

As noted previously, these models were constructed to our proprietary drawings and specifications for us by South Korea's Premier Builder, Boo Rim Precision.

With detailing only dreamed about a few years back, the importance of models such as these to the serious collector of Brass Locomotive Models and / or Espee Motive Power must have been obvious for they are now only a memory...