DONE. This new loco is 1.5 inches longer, 3/8 inches taller, and has a boiler 5/16 inches inches great diameter than the stock LC+ loco I started with.
As bashed/converted, it is an Adriatic, a 2-6-4, a type of locomotive that was rarely built and used in the US but nonetheless looks handsome here, I think.
The design is pure fantasy, but based heavily on the very handson ATSF 3460 Hudsons and 3751 class Northerns, only a bit smaller than those . . .
Here it is with Lionel's scale Atlantic. This loco is bigger all around . . .
In fact, it looks larger than the Legacy Southern Crescent (this one has been repainted):Iit is taller and wider and much bulkier, but the same length. 
I had fun, and took time, adding a lot of "separately applied details." Most of the pipes are made from wire coathangers, etc. Various bits and pieces were taken from locos in my spare parts boxes.
I lengthened the tender by 1 1/8 inches and made it into a type of centipede . . . and oil, not coal.
Here is a video -- I hope: fhe forum has been squirrel-ly lately about taking videos - the upload and say they are attached then somehow disappear within a few minutes, but I hope this sticks . . .
