You may have seen some of my posts regarding this engine. I bought it off of the 'bay a couple of weeks ago and it had some issues.
There was a serious bind in the mechanism, which turned out to be incorrect order of the tandem rods, causing alignment issues and a bent Main rod. I managed to get that all straighten out and re-assembled correctly. While I had the boiler removed from chassis, I did a thorough cleaning and re-lube. I found the paint finish, just TOO glossy, so I did some weathering on it, but was not happy.
I decided to do a complete re-paint and re-lettering and took some pictures of the results. Unfortunately, i did not have the correct lettering for the engine/tender and ended up using a set of CDS white "Roman".
I am pretty happy with the results and I think it looks a lot better. Certainly runs nice and smokes like crazy! Al
