Description: RGS#20 comes from southwestern Colorado, USA. A3-foot gauge loco, it was originally built by Schenectady for Florence and Cripple Creek RR. When that closed in 9116, it
was sold on to the RGS. It served the RGS till that closed in 1951. Saved by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, it is now owned by the Colorado Railroad museum, who have it undergoing restoration to working
order at Strasbug, PA.
The model is HO scale, running on accurate gauge 10.5mm track, HOn3. It's a heavily rebuilt PSC/Samhongsa brass model from the mid 1980s. It's been detailed to 1950 condition immediately prior to its use in the
film Ticket to Tomahawk, which incidentally was also starred Marilyn Monroe in her second major bigscreen
appearance. Many details were changed and added, from the flanger blade on the front truck with its
operating mechanism on the front deck through to the marker lamp brackets on the tender rear ladder. Specific attention was paid to the routings of the various items of pipework, with new parts such as the
boiler lagging clamps, parts of the whistle assembly, cab roof electrical conduits, and much of the air piping on the tender, with parts scratchbuilt
where necessary.
The model is fitted with DCC and sound with the Soundtraxx TSU750 decoder in the tender, speaker in the smokebox, a contact chuff
synchroniser on the #1 driving axle, and a working headlight. It's been
finised with airbrush paint, Thinfilm decals, and weathered using the airbrush, washes, filters, drybrushing and powders.