926006 USATC S160 2-8-0 Big Jim Light Grey with Transportation Corps U.S.A on Tender No.5820 (as Preserved) Steam Locomotive Class_Class 71 On Christmas Day 1943 SCHARNHORST

On Christmas Day 1943 SCHARNHORST and five escorts put to sea

Servo controlled pantograph (DCC only)

brushes and base paints

Latterly in BR stock

decal sheet and instructions

926006 USATC S160 2-8-0 Big Jim Light Grey with Transportation Corps U.S.A on Tender No.5820 (as Preserved) Steam Locomotive Class_Class 71 On Christmas Day 1943 SCHARNHORSTNo. 5820 was built by Lima in 1945 and sent straight to Poland as part of the war effort. At the end of hostilities the engine was taken into Polish State Railways stock as TR203 474 and later gained an ALCO boiler from another class member. The engine was mostly based at the Katowice steam shed in Silesia, but was eventually withdrawn and preserved at the Polish Railway Museum in Warsaw. An approach by a member of the Diplomatic Corps in the late