{"product_id":"5-inch-gauge-shay-0-4-0-0-4-0-stock-code-9783","title":"5 inch gauge Shay 0-4-0 + 0-4-0","description":"An exceptionally finely made 5 inch gauge Shay, winner of a Silver medal and the Crebbin Cup at the London Model Engineer Exhibition.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The work of a talented engineer who built models over a forty year period, including locomotives from gauge 1 to 5 inch gauge as well as boats, cars, hot air engines and road steam vehicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    He won his first medal at the Model Engineer Exhibition in the 1950s for a model of The Great Exhibition constructed from cereal packets - his last was for the Shay forty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Scaled up from the highly-regarded 3 1\/2 inch gauge design by Kozo Hiraoka, the engine was built over a four year period, completed in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The locomotive has spent much of its life in a glass case and condition reflects that - it remains in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition. It's always very satisfying when a finely made engine goes as well as it looks; this one runs like a sewing machine, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDBw7CqL_Yw\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ethere's some video of it running on the rolling road here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020022993237,"sku":"9783","price":5950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/9783-1.webp?v=1779909760","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/5-inch-gauge-shay-0-4-0-0-4-0-stock-code-9783","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}