The locomotive is complete.

It isn’t weathered yet, and there is no coal in the tender, but fundamentally it’s done.  The final parts were fitting the cab doors, the coupling hooks and cab glass.  Also I needed to stop the electrical shorting from the pony-truck wheels (the swinging small wheels at the front of the locomotive) to the front footsteps.  This was achieved quite easily simply by putting little blobs of epoxy resign on the inside of the steps.

After this, testing on my reverse-curved test tracks showed really pleasing results – even running slowly it now seems to run smoothly.

Slow running is actually more important and more impressive, if you ask me [sorry about the music in the background, by the way].

Next will be either fitting Digital Command Control, or starting on the weathering.