@Csxcellent posted:That’s my point. From my (very limited) research, it doesn’t even look like atsf or a bunch of major railroads had fp7s. Thus, I wonder why they went with that model rather than the ft or f3.
Maybe someone had already made that FP7 mold, or maybe it's an old/existing mold from another defunct manufacturer. I checked my old two rail Atlas/Pola F7 from the 70's, but the Menards loco mold is not from that family/lineage.
Some of the German companies made O gauge American covered wagon locos. Maybe the mold came from one of them.