Description
The PA was Alco’s glamour girl. While Electro-Motive’s E-units easily beat Alco’s passenger engine in terms of popularity, the PA is widely regarded as the most beautiful first-generation diesel – period. Perhaps no other locomotive looked so right at the head of the streamlined trains of the late forties and fifties that were the last hurrah of American long-distance passenger service. The 294 PA’s and cabless PB’s built between 1946 and 1953 powered some of the most famous name trains from coast to coast, from the Santa Fe’s Super Chief to the New Haven’s Merchants’ Limited.
Intricately Detailed ABS Body
Metal Wheels and Axles
Die-Cast Truck Sides
Metal Chassis
(2) Operating Metal Couplers
Unit Measures:12 7/8 x 2 1/2 x 3 3/8
Operates On O-27 Curves
