I had two engines, one MTH and one K-line, for my rather heavy K-line Surfliner set.
The MTH engine was too slow even at full voltage. So into the "stuff I don't plan to run in this lifetime" box where it landed next to an old Rivarossi 2 rail Erie Built. 
The truck spacing were identical ! So now I have a great running Mtharossi Eire Built, and not one visitor has commented on the wrong trucks.
When you live 4000 miles from the nearest LHS you have to go with you have.
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Very clever and nicely done. I think the Rivarossi is actually an FM C-liner freight unit. The locomotive had.s an interesting history and was based on the Erie-Builts' physical design, but wasn't a success. MTH did a passenger A-B-A version (B-A1A five-axle cab units) in several road numbers. The PRR, B&O and ATSF were fantasy, though PRR rostered the freight version.
Hey! You do know that those trucks are wrong, don't you? Sheesh!
But really, love stuff like your blended loco.
I dummied-up (removed the motor) a Rivarossi C-liner like yours, primed it and painted it black, put on some NYC Cigar-Band decals, frame-mounted some O-gauge couplers, and it looks super behind my Atlas lightning-striped Erie-built. The original wheels' flanges
are not tiny, and more than adequate for hi-rail service.
The tooling - done in Italy in the 1960's - can rival modern CAD tool-and-die work.
Of course, the original 700E Hudson's tooling was done in Italy also.
AHem... Not to get technical but those locos pictured above are C-liners... the 4 wheeled version of Fm-s cab line of diesel locomotives. The Erie-builts were 6 wheeled trucked types that MTH and Atlas O have done.
Below is the O guage model of an Erie-Built
You guys are right, it's a FM C-liner. This makes the four wheeled trucks a bit more acceptable.
I like this engine. It's a good runner and it's nice to haul my traditional sized varnish with something other than war bonnet F3's.
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