Wheeltapper 2017

Winner of Steam Locomotives

Mick Moignard's D&RGW K-36 2-6-2 #486 HOn3

Description: The K-36 class or arguably steam's greatest survivors, 10 built, 9 survive, 8 in working order today. 486 can be found on the Durango & Silverton line in Colorado, doing what it was built to do, haul long trains up steep grades. The model is an Overland Models unpainted brass offering. it was re-detailed specifically to 1951 condition with over 50 small changes including ball-ends on the front-end handrails and the flanger telltale up the smokebox from as well as a complete mechanism overhaul. It was then airbrush painted and lettered to suit, and weathered according to available photos. It has DCC, light and sound, including a smokebox mounted speaker and a chuff sync cam. It is in HOn3 scale: HO scale, 3 foot gauge, running on 10.5mm track.