MTH 80-3190-1 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Union Pacific #4012 Sound

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IN STOCK, READY TO SHIP!!We are an Authorized MTH Dealer. Product Line: MTH HO Roadname: Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (Modified) Steam Engine w/Proto-Sound 3.0 - Union Pacific Cab No. 4012 Product Number: 80-3190-1 Features Die-Cast Boiler and Tender Body Die-Cast Metal Chassis Authentic Paint Scheme & Cab Numbers RP-25 Metal Wheels Mounted On Metal Axles Operating Lighted Marker Lights Constant Voltage Headlight Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting Detailed Truck Sides Detailed Cab Interior Powerful Balanced 12-Volt 5-Pole Precision Skewed Flywheel Equipped Motor (2) Kadee Compatible Scale Couplers Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell Decorative Metal Whistle Sprung Drive Wheels Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoker System Locomotive Speed Control Locomotive Cab To Tender Deck Plate Detailed Tender Undercarriage Real Coal Load Interchangeable Traction Tire-Equipped Drive Wheels On-Board DCC Receiver Operates On Code 70, 83, & 100 Rail Curves Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotives can be controlled in command mode with any DCC compliant command control system. While the user won't have access to all of the incredible features of Proto-Sound 3.0, independent control over the locomotive is possible. This means you can continue to use your existing DCC controller to independently control your other DCC equipped locomotives in addition to your Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive on the same track at the same time. When using a DCC controller, the following Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive features are accessible: (F0) Headlight on/off (F1) Bell on/off (F2) Whistle/Horn on/off (F3) Start-up/Shut-down (F4) PFA initiate and advance (F5) Cab Light on/off (F6) Engine Sounds on/off (F7) Volume low, med, high, off (F8) Smoke on/off (F9) Forward Signal Sound (F10) Reverse Signal Sound (F11) Coupler Slack Sound (F12) Grade Crossing (F13) One-Shot Doppler on/off (F14) Extended Start Up (F15) Extended Shut Down (F16) Labor Chuff (F17) Drift Chuff (F18) Smoke Volume low, med, high (F19) Single short whistle toot (F20) Coupler Close (F21) Feature Reset (F22) Idle Sequence 1 (F23) Idle Sequence 2 (F24) Idle Sequence 3 (F25) Idle Sequence 4 (F26) Brakes auto/off (F27) Cab Chatter auto/off (F28) 0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Quillable Whistle With Freight Yard Proto-Effects Freight Yard Proto-Effects Quillable Whistle w/Freight Yard Proto-Effects Unit Measures: 18 5/8" x 1 1/2" x 5 5/16" Operates On 18" Radius Curves Just months before Pearl Harbor, the American Locomotive Company delivered the first Big Boy to the Union Pacific Railroad. The UP's Department of Research and Mechanical Standards had designed the locomotive for a specific task: to pull a 3600-ton train unassisted over the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. While the Big Boy is often cited as the biggest steam locomotive ever built, in fact it is not. The Norfolk & Western's Y6 and A, the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range's Yellowstones, and the Chesapeake and Ohio's Alleghenys were all in the same league, and some exceeded the Big Boy's weight and power. But in the battle for hearts and minds, the Big Boy won. Perhaps it was the name, simple and direct, scrawled on a locomotive under construction by an Alco shop worker. Maybe it was timing, as the Big Boys hit the road just when America needed symbols to rally around. Maybe the UP's publicity department just did a better job of telling the world what great equipment they had. Whatever the reason, the Big Boy captured the imagination of railfans and the American public over the ensuing years, perhaps more than any other steam engine. In many ways it is the symbolic locomotive of the American West, as big and powerful as the country it sped through. Writer Henry Comstock beautifully described the Big Boy's place at the apex of steam engine history: "A Union Pacific 'Big Boy' was 604 tons and 19,000 cubic feet of steel and coal and water, poised upon 36 wheels spaced no wider apart than those of an automobile. That it c... read more

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