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, Durable ABS Bodies
Die-Cast Truck Sides & Pilots
Metal Chassis
Metal Handrails and Horn
Authentic Paint Scheme
Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
(2) Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
(2) Operating Metal Couplers
Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlight
(2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors
Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Passenger Station Proto-Effects
Unit Measures: 28 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 3 5/8
Operates On O-31 Curves
