@Apples55 posted:Finally had a chance to take some pics of my new “Mohawk”. I must say, this is a really beautiful, well done engine. The amount and quality of the applied details is very impressive. Although the Lionel catalog calls all the Mohawks L2a’s, I’m happy that the New Haven model of 3507 correctly identifies it as an R2a (built at Schenectady in 1926).
The details in the cab are particularly impressive!!!
If I have any quibbles about this engine, it would be with the classification lights. Not sure if this has been done before - both the pair on the front of the engine and the pair on the back of the tender have fairly thick wires with the bulbs which come through the casting below the classification light and bend up into the lenses. While it is relatively hard to notice, if one were to pop out, it would be very apparent (don’t ask how I know that
). Here is a pic of one from the tender.
One last comment… this engine has the switches on the underside of the cab (ugh!!!). I never use smoke, so when I set the switch to program, I always set smoke to off. Since, in this case, I didn’t read the instructions before setting up the engine (“we don’t need no stinkin’ instructions”
), I missed one thing… in addition to the smoke switch, there is another that just says whistle. Not thinking, I left the whistle on - gotta have whistle!!! In looking at the manual, I found out that whistle refers to whistle smoke. Have to turn that one off too. In my defense, in other engines I have, the switch usually was labeled something like whistle smk. Live and learn!!!
She's a beauty Paul.
Seems that K-line figured out class lights years ago......
