April 25, 2024
HO Atlas # 10 000 421 - Undecorated HH600/660 - DCC ready
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HO Atlas #10 000 421 --- HH600/660 --- Undecorated --- some of the wording is from the excellent Atlas web site --- Silver Series, which is DCC ready --- NEW in the original box --- 8 wheel drive and 8 wheel pick up --- all parts are still in the box --- post insured --- we combine postage --- foreign sales are welcome --- see our other trains on EBAY & our Ebay StoreBetween 1931 and 1940 ALCO built 177 high hood (HH) switching locomotives of various horsepower ratings and body styles. The “HH” models were forerunners to the popular S-series of switchers which featured lower hoods. ALCO’s high hood switchers were in production long before similar models from competitors EMC/EMD (1935) and Baldwin (1937). Interestingly, the “HH” model designation is a term coined by rail historians to describe what ALCO documentation had simply referred to as 600-hp or 660-hp switchers. In later years ALCO had referred to these early units as “high hood switchers” so this designation is appropriate.Of the 177 high hood switchers built, 104 were HH600s, 18 were HH660s, 21 were HH900s and 34 were HH1000s. Some of the largest users of these models included New Haven, Lackawanna and New York Central. Various physical changes occurred during the 19 years these locomotives were in production. The biggest change occurred in 1934 when ALCO hired industrial
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