The B-mann "prairie" is really a USRA 0-6-0 with pilot and trailing trucks added. The USRA 0-6-0 came with the boxy coal tender. Thus, you must buy the "2-6-2",. remove the idler trucks, if you are going to keep the original tender. According to someone who would know, none of the USRA 0-6-0 copies had slopebacks, either. Some of the roads that played musical tenders with their locomotives might have stuck one behind an occasional original or copy, but never have I seen a photograph of one. If you look at the trailing truck, it is obvious that it does not belong. It might work as a logging locomotive. Logging roads ran on a tight budget. Most of them barely could afford the motive power. It would not be unusual for logging road to buy used power. The logging roads liked the 2-6-2 wheel arrangement, as on many of them, the locomotive ran in reverse as much as it did forward. It would not be inconceivable that a logging road might buy a used 0-6-0 and weld on idler trucks. The logging roads had sharp curves and crummy track that tore up the tires on the drivers. It needed those idler trucks to guide the locomotive and save on tire wear. Skipgear's work was an excellent job. Someone supra mentioned the B&O road name. The road number is incorrect on the Bachmann B&O, but Bachpersonn does sell it as a "prairie", a wheel arrangement that never ran on the Baltimore and Ohio. As original poster stated, he needs the slopeback for his purposes.
"Moose has been wanting to obtain a reliable 2015 or newer Bachmann 0-6-0 for some time now." Reliable?!!
