Balboa/Westside 74

Actually, the Balboa/Westside 74 isn't bad.
I'd have been ecstatic if Sunset's On3 model had been as nice.
It's really a model of 74 as she was in Boulder's park in 1985 when we put a new Ridgway Cinder catcher on the engine and lettered her C&S again. She was never in service in that configuration.
If you want 74 as an RGS engine, remove the cinder catcher. If you want 74 as a C&S engine, you should take out the cross of the four pane cab windows to leave two pane windows an cover the window beside the fireman's door on the front of the cab. You should also shorten the cab roof overhang.
The original Balboa model was produced in about 1967 as I recall, I think the Westside version came out in the late '70's. It had a can motor and looked nicer than the Balboa model with that huge motor in the cab. Other than that, it was pretty much a reissue of the Balboa.
Oh, yeah. You have to put an 11" airpump on it. The RGS stole the 74's pump after the engine was sold and put it on 42 during scrapping operations. They probably thought no one would ever notice. Every model of 74 ever made with the single exception of Overland's Sn3 version has had that stupid 9 1/2" pump on it.
Balboa's drawings of 74 for the model came from a Boulder modeler and railfan named Billy Bowen. He died several years ago. I think his payment for the work was one 74, which as I recall, sold new for $49. Now, those were the days....
Mike