The Ironclad
$340
4-6-2 Pacific Locomotive
Our flagship engine. Black walnut boiler, hard maple bands, turned brass bell — the piece the whole collection is built around.
Handmade in Midlothian, TX · First production run
Trains built to outlast
the childhood.
Solid North American hardwood. Cut, shaped and oiled by hand, one at a time — no plywood, no plastic, no printed decals. The kind of toy that gets handed to the next child instead of thrown away.
Pieces from $95 · Complete sets from $845 · 3–6 week build time
Product images are design renderings. The first production run is being built now.
Solid hardwood
No plywood or MDF
Made in the USA
Midlothian, TX
Food-safe finish
Plant-based hardwax oil
Built for keeps
Repaired free, for life
The Collection
Nine pieces. One railroad.
Every car couples to every other car in brass, so a set bought one birthday at a time still runs as one train ten years later.
The Foreman
$225
0-6-0 Yard Switcher
A stout little cherry switcher with a squared-off cab. Shorter wheelbase, tighter turns, easier for small hands.
The Freight Line
$215
Boxcar Trio
Three boxcars in three species — maple, cherry, walnut — each with a brass-tracked sliding door that actually slides.
The Namesake
from $160
Personalized Name Train
One letter car per letter, cut from alternating hardwoods, led by a small engine. Priced from $160 for four letters.
The Workshop
One maker per train. Start to finish.
No assembly line and no outsourced parts. Whoever rips the board mills the wheels, pares the boiler, breaks every edge and rubs in the oil on that same train — it is never handed down a line. Another bench means more trains in a month, never a faster train, which is why the tool marks on yours are slightly different from the one before it.
- Solid North American hardwood
- Black walnut, hard maple, cherry and white oak — milled from board stock in our own shop. No plywood, no particleboard, no veneer over filler.
- Cut, shaped and finished by hand
- Every locomotive is band-sawn, spokeshaved and block-sanded to 400 grit by one maker, start to finish. The tool marks you can feel are the point.
- Food-safe hardwax oil
- A penetrating plant-based hardwax oil — no lacquer, no polyurethane film to chip. It wears in rather than wears out, and it can always be re-oiled.
- Built to be handed down
- Steel axles, hardwood wheels turned true, and joinery that is glued and pinned. These are the trains that end up in the second child's toy box, then the grandchild's.
“It is not a display piece. It is a floor toy that happens to be worth keeping.”
Custom Work
Built to your drawing
A grandfather's locomotive number. A logging camp that no longer exists. A birth date carved into the tender. We take roughly a dozen commissions a quarter and we quote from a sketch, a photo or a story.
- Free quote within two business days
- Shop drawing approved before a cut is made
- 50% to start, balance at delivery
Wholesale & Corporate
For shops and gift programs
Independent toy stores, museum shops, children's boutiques and corporate gifting programs. Keystone wholesale pricing, a low first order, and no credit application to fill in.
- Opening order from $750, paid up front
- 50% off MSRP at keystone, tiered from there
- Line sheet and photography supplied
How it works
Three steps, no surprises.
01
Tell us what you want
Add pieces to a quote request, or describe a commission. We answer every enquiry within two business days with a firm price and a build date — not a range.
02
We build it
Three to six weeks depending on the piece. You get a photo off the bench before it is oiled, and nothing ships until you have seen it.
03
It arrives crated
Packed in a kraft gift box, in wood excelsior, inside a double-wall carton. Free ground shipping in the lower 48 on orders over $250.
The first run
250 builds a month, and we are at the start.
We are opening the bench to a first group of customers and stockists. The queue is short and Christmas orders close in the first week of October. A quote costs nothing and holds nothing against you.