Tender Locomotive later class 38.10-40 as Prussian P8 in grey photographic livery

The Model:
Motor with flywheel. With standard NEM 651 socket to install a decoder. Double headlights at each end, co-ordinated with direction of travel. Era II. Technical details as per cat.-no. 4167.

Based on:
Usually, as steam engines left the works, one of their number was painted in the light grey "photographic" finish. In this way, all of the shaped corners, or added components could be accentuated to improve the photograph, by making the details stand out. At that time - the black and white photographic prints used - made the normally black liveried steam horses appear a little plastic in their grey photographic colours.