Lionel 2431600 O Scale BTO LEGACY 2-8-8-2 H7 Steam Loco RF&P #1 Railbox delivered between the late 1910s

delivered between the late 1910s and early 1940s

The R17 class of cars was one of three fleets purchased in the mid-1950's to replace many of the pre-WWII Interboro Rapid Transit cars

This a pair of Big Bore Scaler Shocks

Ultra-stiff CRC "Z-Flex" chassis and bottom plate

As-build configuration

Lionel 2431600 O Scale BTO LEGACY 2-8-8-2 H7 Steam Loco RF&P #1 Railbox delivered between the late 1910sLionel 2431600 O Scale BTO LEGACY 2 8 8 2 H7 Steam Loco RF&P #1 In need of larger power but strapped with smaller tunnels, the Chesapeake and Ohio ordered a relatively novel group of 25 simple expansion 2 8 8 2 locomotives from Alco in 1923. Compound Mallet locomotives, which used steam exhausted from the first pair of pistons to power a second, were nothing new on the C&O or elsewhere. But using steam directly from the boiler to power all four