@scott.smith posted:The reality is that this is as close as any of us will get to model of this. Tooling is too expensive and orders are too few to justify accurate models. It's the world we live in.
Scott Smith
As an aside, years ago i saw an article on an S-scale (not Tinplate or even Hi-Rail) layout where the builder had used a PW AF USRA 0-8-0 to emulate the BC&G 2-8-0. Those 2 locos share some proportions and some visual cues, as I recall. He, of course, made it a 2-8-0 (not an overly hard thing to do if you have a little bashing experience), and re-arranged some detailing as appropriate. It was a "close enough" model, not a 3-year project, and it did the job nicely. The tender was replaced or changed; I forget.
So, get somebody's scale 0-8-0 (RK, or Lionel's "Premier" one) and have some fun doing it yourself. It would be closer than the Lionel Harriman 2-8-0, and probably cheaper, too. Plus, you get Forum bragging rights.