I'd recommend this little engine for certain applications. While it is "semi scale" and a bit smaller than prototype USRA Pacifics, I got one many years ago when K-Line made them, painted in Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha color scheme. This was a correct paint scheme on the Milwaukee when, from about 1936 until around 1940, they painted a number of Pacifics, without streamlined sheathing, in the bright orange, maroon and gray. The Milwaukee's Pacifics were a bit smaller than the USRA variety, and so it looks pretty close to scale and heads up some of my secondary passenger trains. I had TMCC command control installed, along with a nice sound board and then I changed the trailing truck to an inside frame (deVoe) trailing truck like the "road" had for most of their Pacifics and Mikados.
I hope that Williams chooses to do this engine once again, in the "Hiawatha" colors, for those of you who might have missed the chance some 15 or 20 years ago.
Paul Fischer
