Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $869.99
Era: 1940s to present (varies depending on scheme)
Manufacturer: Broadway Limited Imports, 9 East Tower Circle, Ormond Beach, FL 32174; 386-673-8900; broadway-limited.com
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive features:
- Die-cast metal boiler, tender body, and chassis
- Synchronized puffing smoke with chuff sound
- Dual-mode Paragon4 sound decoder
- Factory-installed engineer and fireman figures
- Traction tires
- 5-pole can motor with skew-wound armature
- Separate, factory-applied handrails, ladders, piping, whistle, brass bell, markers, number boxes, and more
Release date: Available now
Road names: Union Pacific no. 4014 (“The Big Boy Tour” excursion with standard finish and Promontory Excursion with gloss finish), 1941 with as-delivered aftercooler and 25-C-100 coal tender in three road numbers plus painted black and silver but unlettered, and 1944 with Wilson aftercooler and 25-C-400 coal tender in two numbers plus painted black but unlettered. Also offered in fictional schemes (two-tone gray with aluminum trim and two-tone gray with yellow trim, one number each).
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