BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

Here are some more photos of the same engine, now with the clamshell smoke bender applied. I guess I need to work on some more photo locations but I really like the way this scene is coming together, so humor me for a few weeks:p
 

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She runs great, a little slippery until the plating wears off of the drivers, but now pulling good sized passenger trains up a 3 and half percent grade like it was level. I had to have them send a new smoke box front because mine was missing the number under the headlight. BLIs service dept. replied to my Email and put the part in the mail within one hour of my initial email! Great service, great products!
 
That is an unfinished AMB kit, "The owner of the layout is an ex SP Engineer so he humors us by letting us run our Santa fe engines." Its a beautiful kit, I will post pics when that area is more complete. The town on the layout is named Santa Lucia, intended to suggest places like Santa Lucia, so the depot was a given