C&O and Erie Berkshires by Lionel

For what it's worth, the C&O referred to their 2-8-4 type of steam locomotives as Kanawha, class K-4, named after the Kanawha River. The C&O K-4 class looked quite a bit different that any of the other AMC group of 2-8-4s, i.e. Erie, NKP, and C&O railroads.  

Also, MTH is the only manufacturer that has offered a correct C&O 2700 class K-4 in 3-Rail scale.

We had the earlier TMCC Erie and was very please d with it. I now have the Legacy C&O from several years ago that was sold as The Empire Builder set I believe it was called. Great locomotives!

These two are what I'm looking at for the future. So you really came up my alley here. Thank You.

Lionel's newest Legacy version of the Berkshire engine is very nice with whistle steam. We have the PE model and like it very much. The Berkshire is one of my favorite engines and judging from the popularity of it, I am not alone.

Forgive me from butting in this post. There was another post somedays back, aand a young fellow changed the center mounted headlight and pilot from what you have shown above, and replaced it with the Virginian 2-8-4 Model that Lionel produced some years back.

I think doing the mods that he did makes a much better looking C&O Kanawha. If memory serves me, all of the 2700 series C&O Kanawha's we're like this. Just my 2cents..............................Brandy!

Here is my C&O TMCC with RS 5.0.  I upgraded the chuff to 4 per revolution, but it is a great running engine!

Attached are photos of the MTH correct detailed C&O K4 Kanawhas........

This run of Kanawhas by MTH were delivered in January 2006..

I have the TMCC version #2699. Love it, runs smooth, sound is strong and throaty., plenty of smoke. The newer ones are just as nice,

Since C&O 2696 and 2699 were former Pere Marquette Berkshires, Lionel did indeed model them correctly.