IHC/ Mehano 4-8-2 C&O Mountain
Tue, 2018-01-30 14:02 —
railandsail
The very first steam loco I bought was a 4-8-2 from IHC that was built by Mehano in Slovania. It was the C&O version with the flying pumps on the front of the boiler. I still have 3 of them and they all run (ran) great. The Vandy tenders that came with them from stock were a little 'malformed' with their squared off bottoms at the forward edges. This was a result of the original tooling having to accommodate a motor in the the front section of the tender that drove the whole loco, rather than the motor in the boiler region.
I had mine weathered up and use to run them doubled headed. I still plan on doing this on my new layout, but will have to convert them to DCC and sound.
Here is a video of someone who has provided a modified vandy tender and some other detailing
I liked this C&O type engine so much I now have host of Backmann versions of this loco, with the much improved version of the vandy tender