More on LV-211.
It is apparently a very rare locomotive. It started life as PRR 8445. Then it went down the PC/CR transition era eventually bought by the LV and renumbered to 211. Mechanically the reason for its "hammerhead" is to accommodate the systems for both a passenger steam generator and a dynamic brake system. The only way to fit both was to make the short hood taller. Accounting for the engine swap to a EMD-567 ripped out of an old e8/e9 explains the gp30/35/sd45-like control stand with selector handle it uses in the cab.
As far as I could tell the Western Maryland had about 5 of the design. CNW modified at least one out of a rsd-5. 211 is a one of a kind as far as I can tell with its engine conversion along with the hammerhead modification.
Note that the Western Maryland and CNW did not rebuild their rs3's with the 567 motor. So they still got a lot of the characteristic ALCo exterior engine components.
Ryan, don't dig yourself in a hole you can't get out of you already got a lot of models your trying to juggle at the same time. This was more to show some info about 211's design that I could find rather than suggesting even more models to make and program.
Lehigh Valley 211 before it got the engine swap and ALCo fan/exhaust replaced by EMD counterparts.
