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Hello from the gang at the shop. Most of us at FineTrains have been train nuts since we opened our first train set as a kid. For our senior members it was a Lionel post war set. For the less seasoned a Tyco Chattanooga Choo Choo set and for the youngsters it was that practically indestructible Athearn HO scale F7 Santa Fe locomotive. But for all of us, it was the chance to recreate - as best as our skills and materials would allow - a time and place of our own choosing from history or fantasy. Railroads hold a place in history that is almost universal to the modern industrialized world. In America, they literally created the path for our industrial strength. Every railroad tie was another few feet of progress along what would become a vital transportation network known by every hobo simply as - The Road. Trains represented something more down there around the next bend whether it was a new town, a new job, a girl, a family vacation, or just another idea tossed under the wheels. For us, that rich history and the trains are inseparable. While we come from very different backgrounds, we can all agree on one thing - we like trains a lot. Everyone who has ever tried to build a small train layout scene understands the amount of time, discipline, dedication - and these days - money it requires. What is less clear while we all have a sense of what it should be is how much detail is enough. How many rivets do we need and by the time we put them all in will we be too old to see them? |
If we had all the time in the world to work on every project until it reached that mythical peak of perfection, we would add just one more detail (trust us we know - we've been there). This is what we do at FineTrains every day. We try to strike a perfect balance between what it costs to take the time to make a finished model that you and all your friends will look at and think - wow that had to have taken a lot of time and effort to make and what is affordable. Several years ago we made the decision to come out of the shadows of a very successful third party custom modeling business to business supplier. We planned to create the unique structures, rolling stock, locomotives and dioramas that were only previously available in the very elite back rooms and exclusive museums of the hobby. Our goal was to put at least one very memorable model into the hands of every devout model railroader that wanted one. We offer a unique original product with the same high quality fully detailed custom design previously only found in fine train museums. These are NOT kits. As is our usual practice, they are every bit as detailed, weathered and completely assembled as our one-of-a-kind exclusive museum offerings. What you see in our product photos are the actual finished model that you will receive - not a box of parts and not a similar one - but the real thing as shown. Our builders use the smallest environmental footprint possible. We use plastics sparingly, spend extra money on renewable energy sources and scour the world for non-toxic low VOC green paints. All our woods and stains come from renewable sources. |
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