IHC / RIVAROSSI
HO Scale
READY-TO_RUN
4-6-2 " PACIFIC " Steam Engine
PREMIER GOLD Series
This is a DC POWERED LOCO / DCC Ready
OUT - OF - PRODUCTION Locomotive
DISCONTINUED By the Manufacturer
Lettered for the:
CHICAGO & ALTON
Featuring the
" ALTON LIMITED " LOGO Paint Scheme
Matching Alton Limited cars available in a separate listing
The unit is highly detailed
FEATURES:
More Variety for Steam- and Transition-Era Railroads
* DC Version / DCC Ready for conversion
* Loco & Tender Electrical Pick-Up
* Separately Molded Consumer Applied: Worthington Feedwater Heater, Turbo Generator, Locomotive Bell
* Sprung Drivers, RP-25 Contour Wheels
* Blackened METAL Handrails and Whell Sets, Coupler Cut Levers, Grab Irons, Rods, and valve Gear.
* Separately Molded Factory Applied: Sand Dome and Feed Lines, Steam Turret, Air Compressor, Air Reservoir, Power Reverse Gear, Lubrication Reservoirs, Steam and Water Feed Lines, Nathan Low Water Alarm, Popper Valves, Elesco Feedwater Heater.
* Operating Headlights n Locomotive and Tender
* Provision for Speaker Mount
* Balanced Machined Metal Flywheel
* State of the Art Can Motors Driving Precision Helical Matched gear Transmission
* Wiring for Smoke Generator Installation on some locomotives
* 8 Pole Connector between Locomotive & Tender
* Locomotives come with NMRA 8 pin receptacle in the Tender for DCC Operation conversion.
* Improved Tractive Effort
* Weighted for Maximum Tractive Effort
* Nickel-Silver Plated RP-25Wheels
* One-piece boilers, engine covers, cabs and tenders of pressure-cast high impact plastic.
* Steel main and side rods.
* Steel handrails and coupler release bars on both loco and tender.
* Many additional fine details.
* Easy rolling steel needle point truck axles
* Tender with separately applied Coal or Oil Bunker Style as Appropriate to Road
WHEEL CONFIGURATION:
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The 4-6-2 locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific type after a New Zealand locomotive that was shipped across the Pacific Ocean.
HISTORY:
The Alton Limited (later known as simply the Limited) was the Chicago & Alton Railway's (C&A) flagship service between Chicago, Illinois. and St. Louis, Missouri. It was introduced in 1899 and re-equipped in 1905 and 1924. The name and service were discontinued in late 1971.
Starting in 1903, its motive power was a series of 4-6-2 (Pacific) steam locomotives.
By 1905, it provided regular, daily service with six new cars strikingly decorated in three shades of maroon with gold stenciling, which led to the nickname, "The Red Train." The six-car consist included a RPO car, a combine car, a coach, a diner, and two Pullman parlor cars, one of which was the observation car. The cars were richly appointed, and the Alton Limited was advertised as "The Only Way" and as "The Most Beautiful Train In America!"
The last ten Brooks/ALCO class P-5 Pacific engines were delivered to the C&A in 1913. Two six-car train sets were re-equipped in 1924 at a cost of $1 million. The 90-foot "Chicago" observation parlor car included a Japanese tea room and a library. With its blended red color scheme, it was billed, "The Handsomest Train In The World."
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
The Pacific-pulled heavyweight consists were still in operation as late as 1947, though C&A was acquired that year by the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GM&O). The GM&O replaced the Pacific engines with diesel-electric engines, and replaced the heavyweight consist with lightweight, streamlined cars from American Car and Foundry. GM&O adopted a variation of the Alton Limited's maroon and red livery for its own streamliners.
The GM&O dropped "Alton" from the train's name in 1958 and it was known as the Limited thereafter
OVERVIEW:
The introduction of the 4-6-2 design in 1901 has been described as "a veritable milestone in locomotive progress". On many railways worldwide, Pacific steam locomotives provided the motive power for express passenger trains throughout much of the early to mid-20th century, before either being superseded by larger types in the late 1940s and 1950s, or replaced by electric or diesel-electric locomotives during the 1950s and 1960s. Nevertheless, new Pacific designs continued to be built until the mid-1950s.
The type is generally considered to be an enlargement of the 4-4-2 Atlantic type, although its prototype had a direct relationship to the 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler and 2-6-2 Prairie, effectively being a combination of the two types. The success of the type can be attributed to a combination of its four-wheel leading truck which provided better stability at speed than a 2-6-2 Prairie, the six driving wheels which allowed for a larger boiler and the application of more tractive effort than the earlier 4-4-2 Atlantic, and the two-wheel trailing truck, first used on the New Zealand 2-6-2 Prairie of 1885. This permitted the firebox to be located behind the high driving wheels and thereby allowed it to be both wide and deep, unlike the 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler which had either a narrow and deep firebox between the driving wheels or a wide and shallow one above.
The type is well-suited to high speed running. The world speed record for steam traction of 126 miles per hour (203 kilometres per hour) has been held by a British Pacific locomotive, the Mallard, since 3 July 1938.
Development
The two earliest 4-6-2 locomotives, both created in the United States of America, were experimental designs which were not perpetuated. In 1887, the Lehigh Valley Railroad experimented with a 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler design with a Strong's patent firebox, a cylindrical device behind the cab which required an extension of the frame and the addition of two trailing wheels to support it. In 1889, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway rebuilt a conventional 4-6-0 with trailing wheels as a means of reducing its axle load.
The first true Pacific, designed as such with a large firebox aft of the coupled wheels, was ordered in 1901 by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NZR Chief Mechanical Engineer, Alfred Beattie, ordered thirteen new Q class locomotives with a sufficiently large Wootten firebox to efficiently burn poor grade lignite coal from eastern South Island mines. Even before they had completed the order from New Zealand, the Baldwin engineers realised the advantages of this new type, and incorporated it into standard designs for other customers. The design was soon widely adopted by designers throughout the world.
Origin of the name
There are different opinions concerning the origin of the name Pacific. The design was a natural enlargement of the existing Baldwin 4-4-2 Atlantic type, but the type name may also be in recognition of the fact that a New Zealand designer had first proposed it. Usually, however, new wheel arrangements were named for, or named by, the railroad which first used the type in the United States. In the case of the Pacific, that was the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1902.
Global popularity
The Pacific type was used on mainline railways around the world. The railways of New Zealand and Australia were the first in the world to run large numbers of Pacific locomotives, having introduced 4-6-2 types in 1901 and 1902 respectively and operating them until the 1960s.
During the first half of the 20th century, the Pacific rapidly became the predominant passenger steam power in North America. Between 1902 and 1930, about 6,800 locomotives of the type were built by North American manufacturers for service in the United States and Canada. With exported locomotives included, about 7,300 were built in total. About 45% of these were built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) which became the main builder of the type, and 28% by Baldwin. Large numbers were also used in South America, most of which were supplied by manufacturers in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.
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THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item
The item is NEW in the original box from old stock
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Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them.
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Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS.
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