Another "Best of Show" nominated engine. During a visit at Dale and Kathy Petty's ranch in 2009, I took a batch of photos of a full size Hopper Cooled Mogul. Ralph was building this model with NO PLANS and hopefully my pictures helped him produce this work of art! NICE job Ralph!
As mentioned earlier, this engine was one of TWO built by Ralph during the past year, and BOTH were nominated for Best of Show.