Steam Locomotive class 2-8-0 "Consolidation"

American Steam Locomotive with tender type Consolidation, for haulage of goods trains- front central  headlamp –Walschaert gearing fully functioning - Tender with sprung bogies, motor housed in the tender, and transmitting power to the power wheels of the locomotive via worm screw on bearings, and cardanic flexible  transmission. Finely detailed even in the interior of the drivers cabin.

Length: cm. 27.

From the 1960 catalogue

There was also a version with pre heater on the boiler.

From the 1963 catalogue

Produced by Rivarossi from 1957 until 1964

Liveries done: Reading and  a non specified "unnamed " but with "280" wrote on tender