My thinking is that this is an 1890's locomotive with a 1920's tender on it. That was a common practice, upgrading the tenders on older locos. This combination would look good from the 20's 30's and newer. Maybe it's already a modernized version.
I think the loco is new tooling, scaled up and inspired from Bachmann's smaller lines, which are models of narrow gauge engines, I think.
Bachmann probably used this 1920's tender because they had the tooling already. It looks like the tender from the last versions of the old K-Line 0-27 locos, and Bachmann was one of the recipients of the K-Line tooling.
For mine, I am looking into kit bashing an 1890's era tender. The front runners so far are the AHM casey Jones tender, and maybe a modified tender from a Lionel general.
I plan to run the loco with my RailKing 19th century cars freight, or the MTH premier 64' open vestibule wood planked passenger cars.
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