ATLANTIC COAST LINE 4-6-2 STEAM LOCO DC/DCC Ready HO Scale " GOLD " NEW OOP

Description: IHC / RIVAROSSI HO ScaleREADY-TO_RUN 4-6-2 " PACIFIC " Steam EnginePREMIER GOLD Series This is a DC POWERED LOCO / DCC ReadyOUT - OF - PRODUCTION LocomotiveDISCONTINUED By the Manufacturer Lettered for the:ATLANTIC COAST LINE Featuring the " BLUE BOILER " LOGO Paint Scheme The unit is highly detailedFEATURES:More Variety for Steam- and Transition-Era Railroads * DC Version / DCC Ready for conversion* Loco & Tender Electrical Pick-Up* Separately Molded Consumer Applied: Worthington Feedwater Heater, Turbo Generator, Locomotive Bell* Sprung Drivers, RP-25 Contour Wheels* Blackened METAL Handrails and Whell Sets, Coupler Cut Levers, Grab Irons, Rods, and valve Gear.* Separately Molded Factory Applied: Sand Dome and Feed Lines, Steam Turret, Air Compressor, Air Reservoir, Power Reverse Gear, Lubrication Reservoirs, Steam and Water Feed Lines, Nathan Low Water Alarm, Popper Valves, Elesco Feedwater Heater.* Operating Headlights n Locomotive and Tender* Provision for Speaker Mount* Balanced Machined Metal Flywheel* State of the Art Can Motors Driving Precision Helical Matched gear Transmission* Wiring for Smoke Generator Installation on some locomotives* 8 Pole Connector between Locomotive & Tender* Locomotives come with NMRA 8 pin receptacle in the Tender for DCC Operation conversion.* Improved Tractive Effort* Weighted for Maximum Tractive Effort* Nickel-Silver Plated RP-25Wheels* One-piece boilers, engine covers, cabs and tenders of pressure-cast high impact plastic.* Steel main and side rods.* Steel handrails and coupler release bars on both loco and tender.* Many additional fine details.* Easy rolling steel needle point truck axles* Tender with separately applied Coal or Oil Bunker Style as Appropriate to Road WHEEL CONFIGURATION:Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The 4-6-2 locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific type after a New Zealand locomotive that was shipped across the Pacific Ocean. HISTORY:Class J - The First "Pacifics" on the ACLThe Rhode Island Locomotive Works built three 4-6-2 cross-compond locomotives in 1893 and delivered them to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. The CM&St.P was not satisfied with the perfomance of these locomotive and returned them to the builder. They were rebuilt as simple locomotives and purchased for passenger servce on the SF&W Railway. The Atlantic Coast Line acquired the three locomotives in 1902 and assigned them road numbers 287 through 289 and designated them as Class J. These locomotives had 19x26 cyinders, 72" drivers, a 165 psi boiler pressure, exerted 20,000 lbs of tractive effort and each weighed 139,000 pounds. In 1912,the ACL rebuilt the Class J locomotives into 4-6-0s, renumbered them 1287 through 1289 and designated them as Class K-13.Classes: P, P-1, P-2, P-3, P-4, P-5A & P-5B Passenger and Freight "Pacifics"The Atlantic Coast Line took delivery of 15 "Pacific" type locomotives, in 1911, from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. these locomotives were given road numbers 260 through 274 and were designated as Class P. They had 73" diameter driver and were designed to be main line passenger motive power. As originally built they used saturated steam, had D-slide valves, Walschaert valve gear, 22x28 cylinders and a 185 psi boiler pressure. They exerted 29,600 lbs of tractive effort and each weighed 220,850 pounds. Later these "Pacifics" were rebuilt with superheaters and the designation was changed to P-S.Twelve more "Pacifics", intended for passenger service, arrived from Baldwin in 1912 and were assigned road numbers 275 through 286 and designated as Class P-1. These locomotives had superheaters and were similar to the Class P-S locomotives. They each weighed 225,000 lbs and with 22x28 cylinders, 73" drivers and a boiler pressure of 200 psi exerted 31,600 lbs of tractive effort. In 1913, the ACL received eleven 4-6-2 locomotives that were designed and intented for freight service and to also be used to pull high speed passenger trains. They were designated as Class P-2 and deivered with road numbers 287 through 297. Later to distiquish them from the passenger "Pacifics" they were renumbered 400 through 410. These freight haulers had 22x28 cylinders, 64" drivers, a 200 psi boiler pressure, exerted 36,000 lbs of tractve effort and each weighed 225,900 pounds. The Class P-2 locomotives did not do well as dual purpose locomotives and the ACL ordered yet another design and in 1914 it took delivery of 45 dual purpose "Pacifics" from Baldwin. The group was desinated as Class P-3 and assigned road numbers 411 through 455. The P-3 locomotives had 22x28 cylinders, 69" drivers, a 200 psi boiler pressure, exerted 33,400 lbs of tractive effort and each weighed 226,800 pounds. They were very sucessful as dual purpose locomotives and 27 similar ones were delivered by Baldwin between 1916 and 1918. This group designated Class P-4 was given road numbers 456 through 482. They had 23x28 cylinders and each weighed about 17,000 pounds more than the Class P-3 locomotives. Shortly after the close of World War I, the ACL took delivery of 70 USRA "Pacifics" which were built by the American Locomotive Company. They were designated as Class P-5A and assigned road numbers 1500 through 1569. These locomotives had 25x28 cylinders, 73" drivers, a 200 psi boiler pressure, exerted 40,750 lbs of tractive effort and each weighred 278,000 pounds. The Class P-5A locomotives were very fast for their time and became the standard main line passenger locomotive, but they also did well in freight service. Needing more motive power the ACL and the Baldwin mechanical engineers designed a dual purpose "Pacific" to take over freight service. Between 1922 and 1926 Baldwin built 165 of these main line locomotives. They were designated as Class P-5B and assigned road numbers 1600 through 1764. The Class P-5A locomotives had 25x28 cylinders, 69" drivers, a 210 psi boiler pressure, exerted 45,275 lbs of tractive effort and each weighed bout 285,000 pounds. Classes AJ-1 and AJ-2 "The Newcomers"In 1946, the ACL received 13 "Pacific" type locomotives when it merger one of its holdings, the Atlanta, Biringham & Coast Railroad into its operations. The AB&C had a fleet of locomotives that were mostly purchased second-hand from other railroads. Eleven of these locomotives were originally owned by the Florida East Coast Railroad and were built by The American Locomotive Company. On the ACL they were designated as Class AJ-1 and given road numbers in the 7000 series. Another two, former Great Northern Railroad and Lima Locomotive Works built locomotives, were deignated as Class AJ-2 on the ACL and assigned road numbers 7153 and 7175.Number 1504 - Class P-5A SurvivorAll of the ACL "Pacifics" were retired and scrapped in the early 1950s except for Number 1504. This locomotive was placed on exhibit at the Convention Center in Jacksonville, FL where it can be seen today.OverviewThe introduction of the 4-6-2 design in 1901 has been described as "a veritable milestone in locomotive progress". On many railways worldwide, Pacific steam locomotives provided the motive power for express passenger trains throughout much of the early to mid-20th century, before either being superseded by larger types in the late 1940s and 1950s, or replaced by electric or diesel-electric locomotives during the 1950s and 1960s. Nevertheless, new Pacific designs continued to be built until the mid-1950s.The type is generally considered to be an enlargement of the 4-4-2 Atlantic type, although its prototype had a direct relationship to the 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler and 2-6-2 Prairie, effectively being a combination of the two types. The success of the type can be attributed to a combination of its four-wheel leading truck which provided better stability at speed than a 2-6-2 Prairie, the six driving wheels which allowed for a larger boiler and the application of more tractive effort than the earlier 4-4-2 Atlantic, and the two-wheel trailing truck, first used on the New Zealand 2-6-2 Prairie of 1885. This permitted the firebox to be located behind the high driving wheels and thereby allowed it to be both wide and deep, unlike the 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler which had either a narrow and deep firebox between the driving wheels or a wide and shallow one above.The type is well-suited to high speed running. The world speed record for steam traction of 126 miles per hour (203 kilometres per hour) has been held by a British Pacific locomotive, the Mallard, since 3 July 1938.Development The two earliest 4-6-2 locomotives, both created in the United States of America, were experimental designs which were not perpetuated. In 1887, the Lehigh Valley Railroad experimented with a 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler design with a Strong's patent firebox, a cylindrical device behind the cab which required an extension of the frame and the addition of two trailing wheels to support it. In 1889, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway rebuilt a conventional 4-6-0 with trailing wheels as a means of reducing its axle load. The first true Pacific, designed as such with a large firebox aft of the coupled wheels, was ordered in 1901 by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NZR Chief Mechanical Engineer, Alfred Beattie, ordered thirteen new Q class locomotives with a sufficiently large Wootten firebox to efficiently burn poor grade lignite coal from eastern South Island mines. Even before they had completed the order from New Zealand, the Baldwin engineers realised the advantages of this new type, and incorporated it into standard designs for other customers. The design was soon widely adopted by designers throughout the world. Origin of the nameThere are different opinions concerning the origin of the name Pacific. The design was a natural enlargement of the existing Baldwin 4-4-2 Atlantic type, but the type name may also be in recognition of the fact that a New Zealand designer had first proposed it. Usually, however, new wheel arrangements were named for, or named by, the railroad which first used the type in the United States. In the case of the Pacific, that was the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1902. Global popularityThe Pacific type was used on mainline railways around the world. The railways of New Zealand and Australia were the first in the world to run large numbers of Pacific locomotives, having introduced 4-6-2 types in 1901 and 1902 respectively and operating them until the 1960s. During the first half of the 20th century, the Pacific rapidly became the predominant passenger steam power in North America. Between 1902 and 1930, about 6,800 locomotives of the type were built by North American manufacturers for service in the United States and Canada. With exported locomotives included, about 7,300 were built in total. About 45% of these were built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) which became the main builder of the type, and 28% by Baldwin. Large numbers were also used in South America, most of which were supplied by manufacturers in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany. " These have been highly sought after Units " VERY HARD TO FIND ITEM THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED READY-TO-RUN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE The item is NEW in the original box from old stock SHIPPING: We do combine shipping on multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you. THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item The item is NEW in the original box from old stock PERSONAL INVENTORY: Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them. 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