MTH 30-2854-1 Delaware & Hudson Alcos - A/A Diesel w/Proto 2.0

The PA was Alco's glamour girl. While Electro-Motive's E-units easily beat Alco's passenger engine in terms of popularity, the PA is widely regarded as the most beautiful first-generation diesel - period. Perhaps no other locomotive looked so right at the head of the streamlined trains of the late forties and fifties that were the last hurrah of American long-distance passenger service. The 294 PA's and cabless PB's built between 1946 and 1953 powered some of the most famous name trains from coast to coast, from the Santa Fe's Super Chief to the New Haven's Merchants' Limited. Depending on their gearing, PA's could hustle a passenger consist along at up to 100 mph.

Long after all other PA's had gone to scrap, four restored ex-Santa Fe units remained in service on the Delaware & Hudson into the late 1970's. Sold to the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM) in 1978, most of the units eventually deteriorated to junk status, although one remained operational. But in April of 2000, Doyle McCormack - who also happens to be the engineer of 4449, the restored Southern Pacific Daylight - and the Smithsonian Institution repatriated two of the junked units for rebuilding. One of the units will be restored to Santa Fe livery for static display, while Doyle is bringing the other PA back to life in the Nickel Plate Road "Bluebird" scheme. You can follow the progress of Doyle's labor on the Web site www.nkp190.com.

FEATURES:

Features •Metal Chassis
•Intricately Detailed ABS Bodies
•Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
•Directionally Controlled Headlights
•Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
•(2) Remotely Controlled Proto-Couplers
•(2) Precision Flywheel Equipped Motors
•Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
•Proto-Sound 2.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring:
Passenger Station Proto-Effects
•Unit Measures:28 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 3 5/8"
•Operates On O-31 Curves

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