This is a beautiful electric HO-scale P5a BOXCAB ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE Freight Type with super Paragon3 Rolling Thunders sounds for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) – road #4757 by Broadway Limited Imports (BLI). The body and the chassis are both die-cast. The picture may show a different road number but it is the same model.
4708 PRR P5a Boxcab, #4757, Freight Type, DGLE, Buff Yellow Roman Lettering (Coved), Paragon3 Sound/DC/DCC, HO
The PRRs class P5 comprised 92 mixed-traffic electric locomotives constructed 19311935 by the PRR, Westinghouse and General Electric. Although the original intention was that they work passenger trains, the success of the GG1 meant that the P5 class were mostly used on freight. A single survivor, prototype #4700, is at the Museum of Transportation in St Louis, Missouri. The first P5s were built with box cabs. A grade crossing accident in which the crew were killed led to the substitution of a streamlined steeple type cab in later production, a design which was also applied to the GG1. Orders were placed for 90 production locomotives classified P5a due to minor changes from the prototypes. Production was split between General Electric and Westinghouse. The GE examples were assembled at GEs Erie, Pennsylvania facility, still a locomotive assembly plant today--while final assembly for the Westinghouse order was subcontracted to the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Industry-Leading Features:
NEW
Paragon3 Sound & Operation System FEATURING ROLLING THUNDERTM with
Authentic Sounds and Prototypical Operation in both DC and DCC environments
Factory Installed Engineer / Fireman Figures
Locomotive Composition: Die Cast body with Die Cast Chassis
Couplers: (2) Operating Kadee or Compatible
Compatible Tracks: Code 70, 83, 100 Rail
Minimum Operating Radius: 18 in or greater
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