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  MTH 8020511 HO Scale ALCo PB, Southern Pacific 5911 with Proto-Sound 3.0
MTH 8020511 HO Scale ALCo PB, Southern Pacific 5911 with Proto-Sound 3.0



 
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The PA was Alco's glamour girl. While Electro-Motive's E-units easily outsold Alco's passenger engine, 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 America's most famous name trains, from the Southern Pacific's Daylight to the New York Central's Empire State Express. The muscular PA profile and its elegant nose, with the characteristic grille around the headlight, were designed by Ray Patten, General Electric's head of industrial design. At the time, GE and Alco were partners in the locomotive business, with GE making the electrical equipment for all Alco diesels. Patten's design was described as "a locomotive so distinctive and so powerful looking that it actually helps railroads sell their services to passengers and shippers." While Alco would later fall by the wayside, GE went on to become America's largest locomotive builder by the early 1990's.

Under the hood of the PA beat a 16-cylinder model 244 prime mover that developed 2000 hp. Depending on their gearing, PA's could hustle a passenger consist along at up to 100 mph. Railfans gave the PAs and other Alcos the tongue-in-cheek title of "honorary steam locomotives" in recognition of the black smoke they produced when starting or accelerating, until the turbocharger came up to speed.

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 cCormack — who also happens to be the engineer of No. 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.

Recreate the excitement of first-class passenger travel in the middle of the last century, with these Alco PA locomotives and matching passenger sets. MTH's ProtoSound 3.0 sound and control system brings you the authentic sounds of an Alco prime mover and station announcements for name trains of the 1940s and '50s — along with the ability to start your train so gently you won't spill the water in the diner and then accelerate up to scale speeds of over 100 mph, just like the prototype.
Features
  • Intricately Detailed ABS Bodies
  • Authentic Paint Scheme & Cab Numbers
  • Detailed Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
  • Die-Cast Metal Chassis
  • (2) Cab Figures In A Unit
  • Directionally Controlled Headlights
  • RP-25 Metal Wheels Mounted On Metal Axles
  • Powerful 12-Volt 5-Pole Precision Skew-Wound Flywheel-Equipped Motor In Each Unit
  • Locomotive Speed Control in Scale MPH Increments
  • Lighted Cab Interior
  • Operating MARS Light (Where Prototypical)
  • Illuminated Number Boards
  • Lighted Class Lights
  • (2) Scale Kadee-Compatible Remotely Controlled Proto-Couplers On Each Unit
  • (2) User-Installable Kadee-Compatible Operating Couplers Also Supplied
  • On-Board DCC Receiver
  • Operates On Code 70, 83, & 100 Rail
  • Proto-Sound® 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Passenger Station Proto-Effects™
  • A Unit Measures: 9 1/4" x 1 3/8" x 2 1/8"
  • B Unit Measures: 8 3/4" x 1 3/8" x 2 1/8"
  • Operates On 18" Radius Curves

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