New delivery.
C&O J-3A 4-8-4 by Overland.
Whoever painted it, did a nice job. They also added a headlight.
It's not a multi-colored engine but it's a northern and I like the low headlight and the real reason: it was under 300 bucks, shipped (pretty cheap for a big northern).
On arrival the steam dome was off the engine and the steam whistle was broken off the steam dome.
Taking it apart, I found no screw in the engine nor box so I'm guessing the paint was the only thing holding the dome to the engine and 'shipping' broke it free.
Some fast soldering re-attached the whistle to the dome without damaging the paint.
Will want to add extra lights to the marker lights, number boards, cab, fire box, below the running boards and tender light, but that's 'down the road'.
The part was too small to use metal clamps on and not scratch up the paint so I used some band aids to insulated my fingers from the heat while holding the part.
Nice cab detail.
Never saw that part on the back of the roof of a steam cab, before. Guessing it's some kind of radiator!
Has functioning tender trucks where the side frames move independently of each other.
I've only got 2 C&O engines. The other is an H-8 by Key.
One other that I wouldn't mind getting is the 2-6-6-2 H-5: the 'work horse' along the mines.
