The pictorial supplement to the quick update...

Liam and what will become his locomotive...
And what it will become...
Only lettered up as Colorado Central #14. The boiler jacket will be a metallic light blue, the cab will look like varnished wood. The cab windows will be painted like a light colored wood. The tender, frame, domes, and other misc parts will be black. The lettering will be gold leaf with red drop shadows.

Here's the motor for the 2-8-0...

The window making party...
And that's it for now. I will continue to focus on the passenger cars...and let the large scale and other On3 projects simmer. I might snap an HO P2k stock car kit together ($5 at my LHS), but that wouldn't take much time...certainly not on the same scale as this stuff.