I thought that Bogie starred in Casablanca.
Anyway - this loco is an early brass Williams Hudson, and is, indeed "scale" - that is, it is built to 1:48 proportions. The trailing truck is properly executed (I have one of these locos on a shelf), but the photo has it awkwardly "posed", I'd say. Track would help. These locos had good detailing for the time (late 80's), but rather crude and delicate mechanicals. They were big 1:48 locos engineered to go around tiny curves; the tender has a "high-pockets" look, because those scale Commonwealth 3-axle trucks had to swing past the tender sides on the smallest curves. This, indeed, gives the entire running gear a bit of a "high-pockets" look on these engines.
Lionel did a better job in the 1930's on the 700E - essentially the same prototype, but it sat down right on it's chassis.
Crude as they were, these early brass Williams 1980's Hudsons were real eye-openers for 3RO back then. Later Williams brass was excellent, and helped lead to all sorts of die-cast (and brass) 3RO scale steamers from various sources.
