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Chesapeake & Ohio Allegheny 2-6-6-6 Locomotive 

•  DCC Ready or
•  DCC/Sound Equipped - Sound unit by LokSound featuring new LokSound V4.0 Decoder which can be used on all standard DCC systems.
•  Pristine Finish
•  Details Included: Metal Handrails, 5-Pole Motor with Flywheel, Operating Headlight, Knuckle Couples. 

History

 The Allegheny was first produced for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for the coal runs from the terminal in Hinton, West Virginia and 80 miles to the east to Clifton Forge, Virginia. The locomotive’s name came from the steep climb through the mountain range of the same name. Two Alleghenies were needed to take the 10,000 ton loads of coal up to the summit at 2,072 feet, one pushing and one pulling, once the summit was reached, one Allegheny could pull the rest of the trip.

Lima Locomotive Works built the first sixty of the 2-6-6-6 Class H-8 Allegheny from 1941 to 1948. The Allegheny weighed in as the heaviest steam locomotive ever produced weighing in at 1.5 million pounds. The 2-6-6-6 wheel arrangement was to help evenly distribute the weight on the rails that accumulated towards the back of the locomotive. A six-wheeling trailing truck was needed to help support the weight of the firebox also allowing the engine to become the most powerful reaching up to 7,500 horsepower. The last working Allegheny was removed in 1956 opening up a new era to diesel locomotives, but the Allegheny would always be remembered as an American icon.

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Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 Locomotive 

• DCC Ready or
• DCC/Sound Equipped - Sound unit by LokSound featuring new LokSound V4.0 Decoder which can be used on all standard DCC systems.
• Pristine Finish
• Details Included: Metal Handrails, 5-Pole Motor with Flywheel, Operating Headlight, Knuckle Couples. 

History

Big Boy was a Class 4000 steam locomotive built for the Union Pacific Railroad with 20 made in 1941, and the last 5 in 1944, all were made by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. The working Big Boys weighed in at 1.2 million pounds, with an average of 5,900 horsepower to pull heavy loads on steep climbs. The need for such a powerful engine was specifically for the area east of Ogden, Utah, the Wasatch grade, which before had gained a reputation as “the helper district” because there wasn’t a locomotive before the Big Boy that could make the climb without using helper engines to pull them along.

The wheel arrangement was a unique 4-8-8-4 alignment to any other locomotive, with four leading truck wheels for stabilization followed by two sets of eight driving wheels and ending with four supporting trailing truck wheels allowing turns up to 20 degrees. The Big Boy was known to regularly haul loads up to 4,040 tons through the late 1950’s with all engines logging more than one million miles each by the time of their forced retirement due to creation of diesel-electric engines. The iconic Big Boy would remain one of the most successful steam locomotives ever produced.

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