Constructed with dozens of added-on detail parts, the USRA Light Mikado joins the M.T.H. HO lineup for 2008. While other manufacturers have offered fine models of this classic engine, we believe none matches the combination of accurate details, sound quality, slow speed performance, and synchronized puffing smoke featured by our die-cast model. For its initial run, we offer the Light Mike in two undecorated versions and decorated and correctly numbered for four railroads, with road-specific details including accurate, legible builders plates; footboard or boiler-tube pilot; smokebox or boiler-top mounted bell; and high-mounted or centered headlight. Each road name is offered in three engine numbers. For the B&O, we offer the first USRA locomotive ever built, No. 4500, and two of the additional 99 Light Mikes the B&O received from the government and rostered as Class Q-3. For the Pennsylvania Railroad, we offer three of the five USRA Mikes the Pennsy kept, painted in near-black PRR Brunswick Green; the other 33 Mikes it received were sent packing in short order and wound up on the Missouri Pacific and the Frisco. Our New York Central models represent three of the 143 USRA-built members of the road's Class H-6. And our Union Pacific engines are replicas of USRA copies ordered by the road in the 1930s.