MTH HO 4-8-8-4 BIG BOY 4016 W/SOUND TRAIN PRE ORDER NEW

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THIS IS A PRE-ORDER SALE. THESE HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED BY MTH. Originally scheduled to be released in late May 2011 NOW THESE ARE DUE TO BE RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER 2011 .I WILL SHIP ALL PRE-PAID ORDERS THE SAME DAY WE RECEIVE THEM FROM MTH. I WAS GETTING THEM IN MAY BUT NOW THERE COMING IN SEPTEMBER, I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR IT, BUT ILL LET IT GO WITH A SWEET PRICE. SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY, REQUIRE PAYMENT WITHIN 24 HOURS. FOR SOME REASON YOU DONT WANT IT ANY MORE I WILL GIVE YOU 30 DAYS TO REFUND MONEY. I WILL SHIP WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. I HAVE A HUGE CREDIT WITH MTH, SO GOING TO DO A FEW MORE PRE ORDERS, AND IF THERE SOMETHING ELSE YOU BEEN LOOKING FOR FROM MTH, LET ME NO I CAN MAKE ORDERS AND GIVE YOU A 40 PERCENT DISCOUNT FROM ASKING PRICE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE IM LISTING MORE DUE TO GETTING MORE STRAIGHT FROM MTH WITH NO RESERVE, SO BECAUSE THIS ITEM IS FOR REAL. HURRY ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK SHIPPING WILL BE A FLAT RATE OF 150.00 DOLLARS THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK WHEN I SHIP ITEM I WILL NOTIFY AND SEND CONFIRMATION CODE, JUST A REMINDER, I LIKE TO FOLLOW UP WITH ALL ORDERS TILL ITEMS ARE IN YOUR HANDS AND ARE SATISFIED. PLEASE REMEMBER TO IM GOING FOR 100 PERCENT FEEDBACK, SO PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST IF ANY PROBLEMS, YOU SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED OR MONEY BACK. 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (Original) Steam Engine w/Proto-Sound 3.0 Product Line: MTH HO Roadname: Union Pacific Shipping Date: SEPTEMBER 2011 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (Original) Steam Engine w/Proto-Sound 3.0 - Union Pacific Cab No. 4016 Product Number: 80-3209-1 M.S.R.P. $ 599.95 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 could thunder safely over undulating and curved track at speeds in excess of 70 miles an hour was due in large measure to the efforts of two long-forgotten pioneers. As early as 1836, the basic system that held its wheels in equalized contact with the rails was patented by a Philadelphian named Joseph Harrison; and a French technical writer, Anatole Mallet, first thought to couple two driving units heel to toe below one boiler in 1874." This enduring symbol of American railroading returns to the rails, complete with the industry-leading speed control, smoke output, and range of accurate sounds that characterize all MTH locomotives. Our model features a precision 12 volt 5-pole skew wound motor and die-cast metal construction for pulling power and speed that rival the original Big Boy - as well as authentic articulated chuffing s... read more

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