Athearn HO RTR Veranda Turbine w/Tender, UP Pt.# 88668
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EDDY SEZ: PAY TODAY AND ITS ON THE WAY :) This HO-Scale Locomotive is made by Athearn for their Ready to Roll Line. It is brand new and never run. The Part number is 88668. It is an HO-Scale Veranda Turbine w/ Tender. It is painted for Union Pacific with road number 71. You're Going to Love Our Price!!! Features include: Back to Top ^ Fully assembled and ready for your layout or display DCC-ready wiring harness installed (8 or 9 pin decoder) Two speaker mounting points molded into underframe to accept speakers up to 1.20" in diameter Five pole skew wound armature motor 4 inboard axles are powered Celcon handrails Cab interior Razor sharp painting and printing McHenry scale knuckle spring couplers installed Overview Back to Top ^ After World War II, GE began work on a locomotive using a gas turbine power plant specifically designed for locomotive usage. The gas turbine had an advantage in that it could burn Bunker “C” fuel oil. Bunker “C” is a thick, low-grade oil that is a left-over when crude oil is refined into higher quality products like gasoline and diesel fuel. Being a residual of the refining process, it was both very cheap and widely available. GE’s locomotive gas turbine was about 20 feet long and created 4,500 horsepower, three times as much as a contemporary diesel. GE’s test-bed and demonstrator gas turbine locomotive
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