Class K-2 2-8-2 Mikado with 12-VC Tender - Standard DC - Brass Hybrid Stealth -- Chesapeake & Ohio #1166 (black, graphite, yellow)

This HO Scale Stealth Series Class K-2 2-8-2 Mikado from Broadway Limited is based on Chesapeake & Ohio's 150 2-8-2s - classes K-2, K-3, and K-3a. All the K-2s and K-3s were built by Alco-Richmond. The primary feature differentiating the K-2s and K-3s was the booster. The K-2s had a booster, and although considered a "light Mikado," they could exert 10% more tractive effort than the booster-less K-3s. The C&O used its Mikados for almost any job, and they were considered the mainstay of C&O power for twenty years. They could be found on manifest freights, local freights, coal trains, work trains, and occasionally passenger trains. They were the dominant power on C&O's James River Line and also the Chicago Line in Indiana. These brass-hybrid models have die cast boilers and tender bodies, and details are based on the K-2 locomotive as it appeared in the 1940s. They are quickly recognized by their large Elesco feedwater heaters and "flying air pumps" hanging from the smokebox door. All