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D&RGW Bumblebee Shay

Trying out the new default Shay, inspired by one that Roundhouse used to sell in HO and HOn3 back in the day.

Interestingly, the Rio Grande actually rostered seven Shays through two subsidiaries; five on the Copper Belt Railway out of Bingham Canyon, and two on the Kenilworth & Helper. However, all of them were big three-truck Class C's, and none lasted to 1948 when the "Bumblebee" paint scheme was introduced. But, in the grand tradition of old-school HO, sometimes a few bits of reality stitched together with a little invention is all you need to sell a model.