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The C-16 air pump and fluted domes are from San Juan Car Co.  The C-16 cab, headlight and stack are from Precision Scale Co. I didn't start out to model a particular type of loco. I looked through various parts from different companies and it ended up that the C-16 items seemed to be closest to the look I wanted.
The cab came with just a piece of flat metal for the roof and the corners weren't even square. I cut two pieces of balsa wood to make the roof and made gussets for it so it would fit down over the cab. The cab is bigger than the stock cab so I put balsa around the bottom for a better fit.
Before I assembled the domes, I put split shot in them and put white glue in there to hold the shot in place. I also put split shot in the stack and the floor of the cab.
The stock Mogul had a struggle pulling four passenger cars up my 4% grade with a lot of spinning. This one now will pull 4 passenger cars, box car, gondola, flat car and logging caboose without much slippage at half throttle. At 1/3 throttle, it starts to struggle. With just the passengers, box, and caboose it does pretty good at 1/3. With just the pass cars, it does good at 1/3.

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