Since you removed the engine,maybe you could add a boiler and a steam machine to the recipe...how will the train run without an engine,what kind of sorcery is this :)
I thought about it several times while i was doing the recipes, but i just don't like it because steam engines and even boilers are several times bigger then the Loco itself.
I know, it's just game conventions, but it still feels wrong for me.
This is the same reason why i didn't put IR3 boiler into recipes, even though it's way smaller.