Lionel 2431600 O Scale BTO LEGACY 2-8-8-2 H7 Steam Loco RF&P #1 Railbox Prototypical C-shaped steel channel side

Prototypical C-shaped steel channel side sills

This a pair of Big Bore Scaler Shocks

As-build configuration

All-new decal sheet featuring “duct tape” numbers

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

Lionel 2431600 O Scale BTO LEGACY 2-8-8-2 H7 Steam Loco RF&P #1 Railbox Prototypical C-shaped steel channel sideLionel 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