Description: Scale/Gauge: HOn3:HO scale, 3 foot gauge, 10.5mm track gauge.
K-27 #454 is depicted as she was in 1951 when she was the Montrose
switcher, used for narrow as well as standard gauge switching, accomplished using an idler car (not shown).
454 is a reworked and redetailed MMI diecast-and-brass model. Added and reworked detail - mostly scratchbuilt in brass - includes the swithcher footboards and
rear beam on the tender, new ladder and backup light along with lashed-up lighting conduit, and new drains and handgrabs on the rear as weel as removing coalboards
and adding new brake piping down the right tender sill. The loco also has a reworked switcher pilot with a new toolbox and grab rail, new oil boxes and piping on the
smokebox, a new whistle, reworked steps to the snad dome, redon fron sander pipes, revised lagging clamps and many other small details. The factory paint was preserved
as far as possible while the work was done. Bare brass and mazac was blackened before being retouched by airbrush. Extra lettering was added where needed. Weathering
is airbrushing, washes, powders and inks and Rustall. 454 has a Soundtraxx DCC Micro Tsunami in the loco with a GME cam on the #2 axle, with the speaker in the tender.