MTH Premier Blue Comet Steam Locomotive

Описание: At the very apex of the Roaring Twenties, just months before the 1929 stock market crash, the Central of New Jersey Railroad inaugurated its twice-daily Blue Comet service between Jersey City and Atlantic City. Heading the fast, luxurious trains were the CNJ's nearly-new Baldwin-built class G-3 heavy Pacifics. Like most railroads in the 1920s, the CNJ had been forced to buy larger motive power to cope with heavier steel trains and increasing patronage. Aging fleets of 4-4-0s, 4-4-2s, and 4-6-0s had become inadequate as business expanded, and the 4-6-2 Pacific type became the standard fast passenger engine on many railroads.

Five P47 Pacifics headed up the Jersey's famed passenger trains. Three locomotives - painted in a beautiful blue livery with nickel trim and numbered 831, 832 and 833 - covered The Blue Comet's fast schedule along the Jersey shoreline. A fourth G-3, No. 834, was painted green and sped The Bullet between New York City and Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The fifth locomotive, No. 835, wore gleaming black paint and hauled The Queen of the Valley, a deluxe train from New York City to Harrisburg.

The M.T.H. Electric Trains O Scale P47 returns to the Premier lineup upgraded for the first time with Proto-Sound 3.0 and sporting command control decoders for both DCC and DCS controllers. This all die-cast beauty can be purchased with scale or hi-rail wheels with either version capable of running on 2 or 3-rail track. Standard features on Premier Line locomotives include digital sound, synchronized puffing smoke timed to drive wheel revolutions and chuffing sound effects and constant voltage, long-lasting LED lighting.