"By 1911 increasing traffic, higher speeds, and steel freight cars called for more steaming capacity than 2-8-0s had. The Rock Island designed a 2-8-2 with 63" drivers and 38" x 30" cylinders (like its newest 2-8-0s) plus a firebox with 63 square feet of grate area and 180 pound boiler pressure. Baldwin delivered 40, numbered 2500-2539, in 1912. Alco's Schenectady Works built 10, numbered 2540-2549, that same year. The Baldwin engines had Baker valve gear; the Alco engines, Walschaerts. Baldwin delivered 25 more in 1913, and Alco delivered another 20 in 1918, for a total of 95 prewar K-60 locomotives." (From: "Guide to North American Steam Locomotives" compiled by the late George H. Drury.)
FEATURES:
PERFECT C-9 Mint Condition with Near-Mint Original Box.
MRRHQ Locomotive Works serviced, tested and certified.
Sealed and stored in an air-tight custom fitted heavy zip lock bag.
Operating Headlamp.
Upgraded with MRRHQ Custom LED Backup Light with Custom Plastic Lens.
"Long Haul" tender body of pressure-cast Zamac high impact plastic.
Steel hand rails, rods and fittings.
Brass Bell and tender pick-up wheels.
Powerful Pittman style 5-pole motor.
Smooth, quiet nylon gears assembled on knurled axles.
Slippage-free oversize knurled drive wheel axles.
Authentic brass hex-head screws for spacer-assembled side rods.
Easy rolling needle point truck axles of cadmium plated steel.
Heavy cast metal locomotive body, tender frame and 6-wheel tender trucks.
Upgraded with working Front (Never available from Mantua) and Rear Knuckle Couplers.
Optional Upgrades Available:
TCS MC2-KAC Standard DCC Decoder Installed
TCS MC2-KAC Standard DCC Decoder w/KA4 Keep Alive Installed.
TCS WOWSound 101 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder Installed.
TCS WOWSound 101KA Digital DCC/Sound Decoder with Keep Alive Installed.
Engineer Figure Installed in Cab.
Production year unlisted and unknown. Likely 1978-1986
Assembled loco and tender nearly 1' long weighing in at over 2 lbs.
