This is MTH 20-5644-1 O PRR GG-1 Express Freight Train Set/2.0. GG-1 express freight train set with Proto-Sound 3.0, Pennsylvania. For more than two decades, the Pennsylvania Railroad experimented with locomotive designs in search of a high-speed, mainline passenger electric. That search ended in 1934 with the GG1, a cooperative effort by the PRR, Baldwin, Westinghouse, and General Electric, based largely on neighbor New Haven's successful EP3 juice jack. Industrial designer Raymond Loewy cleaned up the original riveted body to create a design that looked contemporary for half a century.
The GG1 fleet hustled passenger traffic of all types along the Pennsy's multi-track raceway from New York to Washington and west to Harrisburg, including the famed Congressional and Broadway Limited. With 18 Pullmans in tow, a GG1 could hit 100 mph. Regeared for freight service and run as double-headers, a pair of GG1s delivered about the same tractive effort as a Union Pacific Big Boy, with virtually no noise, no smoke, much less wear on the track, and significantly less maintenance. Many GG1s racked up more than five million miles of service, outlasting the railroad that built them and serving its two successors, the Penn Central and Conrail. If there were a Locomotive Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 would surely be one of the first inductees.
Add this fully die-cast Hall of Famer to your layout in one or more authentic PRR liveries, featuring station sounds for Pennsy name trains, smooth performance at any speed from a crawl to full throttle, dual-motored power to rival the prototype, smoke from the train heat boiler, and pantographs that automatically raise and lower according to the direction of travel.
Automatic Pantograph Operation Explained Users operating the GG-1 in conventional mode will find that by depressing the transformer's direction button to stop the locomotive, the rear pantograph will remain in the up position while the lead pantograph slowly rises up. Once the lead pantograph is in its up position, the rear pantograph will slowly lower into the down position. At this point another press of the direction button will cause the locomotive to reverse making the lead pantograph now the rear pantograph and in the up position.
In command operation two operating modes will be offered; auto and manual. Auto mode will behave similar to conventional mode with the rear pantograph in the up position when moving. The up and down movement of the pantograph will be direction controlled using the DCS Digital Command Control System. In Manual mode, the user will have to raise and lower both pantographs via the DCS System as they wish regardless of directional state.
Its key features are: Locomotive features: Directionally controlled headlights Intricately detailed die-cast body Metal wheels, axles and gears Remotely controlled operating pantographs Enhanced detail die-cast truck sides & pilots Two remotely controlled Proto-Couplers® Authentic paint scheme Metal chassis Two precision flywheel equipped motors Lighted cab interior See-through metal body side grills Opening doors Opening hatches Illuminated number boards Lighted marker lights Locomotive speed control Two engineer cab figures Operating smoke unit Proto-Sound 3.0 with freight yard Proto-Effects Unit measures: 20 x 2 5/8 x 4 Operates on O-72 curves
Freight car features: Intricately detailed durable ABS bodies Die-cast 4 and 6-wheel trucks Operating die-cast metal couplers Separate metal handrails Fast-angle wheel sets Needle-point axles Opening car doors
Set includes: Die-cast GG-1 electric locomotive (brunswick green 1-stripe) 5-car 40' AAR box car set N-8 caboose
Condition: Factory New (C-9) Operational Status:Functional Original Box: Yes (P-9)
Manufacturer: MTH Model Number: 20-5644-1 Road Name: Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Scale/Era: O Modern Model Type: Sets (No Track/Trans)
The Trainz SKU for this item is P11636655.
Trainz Product Id: 11636655
WARNING:
This product can expose you to chemicals including but not limited to lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to
www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
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