Haunted Engine No 25 - 4-8-2 steam loco with passenger train - real world MOC - whole

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Haunted Engine No 25 - 4-8-2 steam loco with passenger train - real world MOC - whole
Haunted Engine No 25 - 4-8-2 steam loco with passenger train - real world MOC - whole

This steam loco was from the first animated train cartoon I ever saw when I was very small, and is one of my favorites, easily beating The Brave Engineer (Disney cartoon) and only being bested by The Polar Express film! I got the basic looks from a single screenshot of the 1990's Cartoon "Hey Arnold!". The engine seem to be based on Norfolk and Western K-1 class 4-8-2, but is apparently owned by Great Northern as evidenced by the tender writing. You can read more about the haunted engine, it's known story, and even potential theories for why it crashed on the Arnold wiki. (yes, that's a thing, and credit goes to Paul Welch for bringing this info to my attention.)

The following text is from the wiki:
"As shown in the episode of the same name (Haunted Train), the legend concerns the phantom locomotive, Old Engine 25. Forty years ago, during a movement from the train yard to Union Station, Engine 25's engineer suddenly went insane. Defying signals and warnings to slow down, he intentionally derailed the engine and its train which slid down a high embankment. However, no wreckage was found beyond the engineer's severed hand, still clutching a part of Engine 25's throttle.

According to the legend, the engineer drove the train straight to the fiery underworld, and now once a year on the anniversary of the engine's derailment, returns aboard Engine 25 with the intent of collecting new passengers to return to the underworld with him."

You can read more about it here on the Wikipedia article for it: heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Legend_of_the_Haunted_Train

The engine's boiler is a highly modified version of one seen on this MOC by Plastic Goth (only the boiler is partially reused, I designed everything else myself): rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-60403/Plastic_Goth/2-8-4-berkshi...

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