Athearn 84985 HO Scale 2-8-0 Steam Loco Virginia & Truckee V&T 29 Layout Control safety rail supports

safety rail supports

Factory-installed Macdonald-Cartier couplers mounted at the correct height

Phase “TZH” – This evolution to the 4180cf design was similar to the previous HAT cars

These banditized stencils were applied to a subset of the car fleet

Athearn 84985 HO Scale 2-8-0 Steam Loco Virginia & Truckee V&T 29 Layout Control safety rail supportsAthearn 84985 HO Scale 2 8 0 Steam Loco Virginia & Truckee V&T 29 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2 8 0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles, and no trailing wheels. This design allowed for more tractive effort with two additional driving axles and a larger boiler. From its introduction in 1866, the 2