Intermountain - N Scale - AC-12 - Southern Pacific (SP) (w/ Tender Lettering) #4292 (Re-Release) (SKU 85-79005-Run2)
Available On: February 1, 2011
SP used the AC-12s for a little over a decade with the first retirements occurring on April 5, 1955, and the last on September 24, 1958. All but one of this class, number 4294, was scrapped.
Features:
?Sharp Painting and Lettering
?Road Numbers Printed Per Prototype Photos
?Powerful Drive
?Intricate Details
?Micro-Trains Couplers
Reserve Before April 30,2010
For December 2010 Delivery
If you note that one of four drive wheel shafts has a rectangular connection and the other one has a triangular connection, that is deliberate. In the prototype, that drive wheel would be moving, as would the connection, which would stretch and extend - hence the triangular piece - and when at rest it would be compacted and rectangular. It was designed by the engineers to give the illusion of movement when the locomotive is moving along the track. There will be a second run; it will have this piece also.