Weathering By Harry Heike

They look nice.

I loved the Lionel Legacy 4-12-2s he did.  Sure wanted one but never found it.

I'm a big fan of accurately weathered locomotives.  They just look so much better than out of the box.  Like they've been doing the work they were intended to do.

Enjoy your new toys, they look great.

I contacted Harry about weathering some engines after I purchased an already weathered Lionel Y3 2-8-8-2 at York this past April. When I saw Harry did the weathering I had to have a few more done.  I then looked the product up on the Lionel Website here was the catalog description. 

Hand Weathered for a Touch of Realism

Faded lettering, mud, dirt, dust, and rust are just a few of daily issues all engines face on the tracks. Our new weathered engines are done by hand in the USA by train enthusiast and expert Harry Hieke. He brings over 20 years of experience and personally details and weathers each locomotive.

Harry does some really great weathering. Steve they look great !!!!!

Alex

Harry is the best!!!!!!

Harry has many talents, all of them good.  The engines look great.

Art

Steve, you mean that Lionel C&O 2-6-6-2 Mallet didn't come out of the box looking like that???   

Looks great!!! Glad it's serving you well.  Now are you gonna weather the other one too?  

David

Very nice looking.

For those who don't know it, Harry has done weathering for both Lionel & MTH.

Brian

Absolutely correct and at the time we picked up our engines last week harry was lining up some MTH and Lionel engines he was prepping for weathering. these are new BTO's (mine were already run)