I thank everyone for the nice comments! This was a passion project and I'm finally happy to have made this locomotive in all its glory! Today I started adding a real coal load to the tender. This isn't just regular coal however, this is real O&W coal, given to me many years ago by a guy who actually worked on the railroad, he collected a bag of coal from the Middletown "AV" shops when steam was on its way out. That's story I was told so I'll stick with it! Anyway a few chucks of the coal was crushed into smaller pieces and sifted, then regular white glue was applied to the top and the first layer added. Probably will do another layer then add a very fine layer of "coal dust" to finish it off.
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