{"product_id":"mth-80-3250-1-ho-2-6-6-6-allegheny-w-ps3-c-o-1604","title":"MTH 80-3250-1 HO Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio 2-6-6-6 Allegheny w\/PS3 #1604 DCC","description":"This is MTH 80-3250-1 HO 2-6-6-6 Allegheny w\/PS3, C\u0026amp;O #1604. 2-6-6-6 Allegheny steam engine with Proto-Sound 3.0, Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio. Cab number: 1604. The biggest engines east of the Mississippi were not rostered by the biggest railroads. There were no legendary articulateds racing along the NYC's Water Level Route or charging over the Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve. It was the smaller, scrappier eastern roads dedicated to wrestling coal out of Appalachia - the C\u0026amp;O, N\u0026amp;W, Virginian, Clinchfield, Western Maryland - that owned articulateds rivaling anything in the West. And the king of them all was the Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio's Class H-8 Allegheny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith four fewer drivers than a Union Pacific Big Boy, an Allegheny could deliver nearly a thousand more horsepower to the rails. Its massive firebox was big enough to host a board meeting - so big it required a unique 6-wheel trailing truck to support it. Its drivers carried the highest axle load of any steam engine, ever. To make the Allegheny fit the C\u0026amp;O's existing 115-foot turntables, its tender was made taller at the rear, to accommodate 25 tons of coal and 25,000 gallons of water. This required a unique 4-wheel rear truck on the tender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Allegheny was the brainchild of Lima Locomotive Works, where the superpower steam concept had been invented in the 1920s. Like the Big Boy, it was designed to lift monstrous loads over one specific piece of railroad: the 80 miles between Hinton, West Virginia and Clifton Forge, Virginia, a coal route from the mines over the summit of the Allegheny Mountains toward tidewater ports. The engine took its name from the mountain range it traversed. Delivery of the iniital order of 10 locomotives began just days after Pearl Harbor and a few months after the first Big Boy; the C\u0026amp;O was so pleased with the giant engines that it ordered 50 more over the next seven years. Fellow coal hauler Virginian took delivery of eight copies in early 1945, naming them Class AG Blue Ridge types.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTypical service on the C\u0026amp;O was lifting 140 loaded hoppers out of Hinton with one H-8 on the point, and another pushing at the rear and cutting off after the mountain summit was reached. About a third of the engines were equipped with steam heat and signal lines for wartime passenger and mail service, where they could reach their maximum speed of 60 mph. Later in their careers, some H-8s were assigned to flatter territory in Ohio and Kentucky, where a single Allegheny could walk away with a 160-car freight. When the final H-8s were retired in 1956, No. 1601 steamed under its own power to Dearborn, Michigan, to become a permanent exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum. The one other surviving Allegheny, No. 1604, resides today in the B\u0026amp;O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew for 2014, our die-cast model replicates all the features that made the prototype Allegheny as powerful visually as it was physically: high pilot deck for access to its smokeboxmounted air pumps; huge twin sandboxes located fore and aft of the steam dome; massive steam delivery pipes for both front and rear engines; torpedo-like air tanks ahead of the cab; and more. Like all M.T.H. articulateds, our Allegheny features puffing smoke and authentic articulated chuff sounds, with the front and rear engines going in and out of sync. It senses what type of power is on the rails and automatically adjusts to operate on analog DC, DCC command control, our own DCS digital command system, or (in the 3E+ version), MÄrklin command control. And when operating with DCS, just a few keystrokes will setup two H-8s to operate together as a lashup, with one at the head of your train and one at the rear, just like the prototype heading east over the Alleghenies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts key features are:\u003cbr\u003eDie-cast boiler and chassis\u003cbr\u003eDie-cast tender body\u003cbr\u003eAuthentic paint scheme\u003cbr\u003eReal tender coal load\u003cbr\u003eDie-cast locomotive trucks\u003cbr\u003eEngineer and fireman figures\u003cbr\u003eMetal handrails and decorative bell\u003cbr\u003eDecorative metal whistle\u003cbr\u003eRP25 metal wheels\u003cbr\u003eInterchangeable RP25 metal drive wheels w\/o traction tires\u003cbr\u003eSprung drivers\u003cbr\u003eTwo #158 scale Kadee whisker couplers\u003cbr\u003ePrototypical Rule 17 lighting\u003cbr\u003eConstant voltage headlight\u003cbr\u003eLighted cab interior\u003cbr\u003eOperating tender back-up light\u003cbr\u003ePowerful 5-pole precision flywheel equipped skew-wound motor\u003cbr\u003eSynchronized puffing ProtoSmoke® system\u003cbr\u003eLocomotive speed control in scale MPH increments\u003cbr\u003eWireless drawbar\u003cbr\u003e1:87 scale proportions\u003cbr\u003eOperates on Code 70, 83 and 100 track\u003cbr\u003eProto-Sound 3.0 with The Digital Command System featuring: Quillable whistle with freight yard Proto-Effects\u003cbr\u003eUnit measures: 18 x 1 5\/8 x 2 1\/4\u003cbr\u003eOperates on 22 radius curves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen using a DCC controller, the following proto-sound 3.0 locomotive features are accessible: \u003cbr\u003eF0 Head\/Tail light\u003cbr\u003eF1 Bell\u003cbr\u003eF2 Horn\u003cbr\u003eF3 Start-up\/Shut-down\u003cbr\u003eF4 PFA\u003cbr\u003eF5 Lights (except head\/tail)\u003cbr\u003eF6 Master volume\u003cbr\u003eF7 Front coupler\u003cbr\u003eF8 Rear coupler\u003cbr\u003eF9 Forward signal\u003cbr\u003eF10 Reverse signal\u003cbr\u003eF11 Grade crossing\u003cbr\u003eF12 Smoke on\/off\u003cbr\u003eF13 Smoke volume\u003cbr\u003eF14 Idle sequence 3\u003cbr\u003eF15 Idle sequence 2\u003cbr\u003eF16 Idle sequence 1\u003cbr\u003eF17 Extended start-up\u003cbr\u003eF18 Extended shut-down\u003cbr\u003eF19 Labor chuff\u003cbr\u003eF20 Drift chuff\u003cbr\u003eF21 One shot doppler\u003cbr\u003eF22 Coupler slack\u003cbr\u003eF23 Coupler close\u003cbr\u003eF24 Single horn blast\u003cbr\u003eF25 Engine sounds\u003cbr\u003eF26 Brake sounds\u003cbr\u003eF27 Cab chatter\u003cbr\u003eF28 Feature reset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Factory New (\u003ca href=\"#\" title=\"C-9: All original; unused; factory rubs and evidence of handling, shipping and factory test run. Standards for all toy train related accessory items apply to the visual appearance of the item and do not consider the operating functionality of the equipment. Condition and Grading Standards are subjective, at best, and are intended to act as a guide.\"\u003eC-9\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOperational Status:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"#\" title=\"This item is brand new from the factory.\"\u003eFunctional\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Box:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes (\u003ca href=\"#\" title=\"May have store stamps and price tags. Has inner liners.\"\u003eP-9\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManufacturer:\u003c\/strong\u003e MTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModel Number:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80-3250-1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoad Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio (C\u0026amp;O)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMSRP:\u003c\/strong\u003e $649.95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\/Era:\u003c\/strong\u003e HO Scale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModel Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Steam Loco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Trainz SKU for this item is P12083697. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 6px !important; color: #d3d3d3 !important; line-height: 8px !important;\"\u003eTrainz Product Id: 12083697\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"MTH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39260668493946,"sku":"P12083697","price":552.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1260\/4747\/files\/3724202.jpg?v=1755553574","url":"https:\/\/www.trainz.com\/products\/mth-80-3250-1-ho-2-6-6-6-allegheny-w-ps3-c-o-1604","provider":"Trainz","version":"1.0","type":"link"}