MTH 30-1599-1 UP 4-8-4 Steam Locomotive w/PS #844 – Your Source for Gaming Essentials* Trains

Description

This is MTH 30-1599-1 UP 4-8-4 W/PS. 4-8-4 Imperial FEF Northern steam engine with Proto-Sound 3.0 (oil burner), Union Pacific. Cab number: 844. Delivered in 1944, the Union Pacific’s ten FEF-3 (”FEF” for ”Four Eight Four”) Northerns were the apex of super-power steam: modern, handsome, and designed to cruise at over 100 mph. In their early years, dressed in two-tone grey, they pulled the Overland Limited, Portland Rose, Challenger and other crack UP passenger trains. Diesels later bumped them to freight service in plain black livery. The last FEF-3 built, No. 844, has the distinction of being the only steam locomotive never retired by a U.S. railroad. You can ride behind it today in UP excursion service.

The FEF-3 returns to the RailKing line in four authentic passenger and freight paint schemes. The oil-burning versions have the distinctive ”elephant ears” – smoke deflectors designed to prevent smoke from obscuring the engineer’s vision – and the coal-fired version has a real coal load. For 2013 we’ve upgraded this model with a larger tender and additional Imperial features that include Proto-Sound 3.0, legible builder’s plates, marker lights with individual LED illumination, painted backhead gauges, cab interior light, and tender truck safety chains.

Did you know?
In 1946 it cost $1.19 per mile to operate an FEF-3, of which 40 cents went for coal or oil, 3 cents for water, and 19 cents for crew wages. Brand new, an FEF-3 went for $150,000, nearly 100 times the price of a new car.

Its key features are:
Die-cast boiler and chassis
Die-cast tender body
Die-cast metal chassis
Authentic paint scheme
Die-cast locomotive trucks
Engineer and fireman figures
Metal handrails and decorative bell
Decorative metal whistle
Metal wheels and axles
Remote controlled Proto-Coupler
Prototypical Rule 17 lighting
Constant voltage headlight
Operating marker lights
Lighted cab interior
Operating tender back-up light
Precision flywheel equipped motor
Synchronized puffing ProtoSmoke system
Locomotive speed control in scale MPH increments
Wireless drawbar
Near scale sizing
Onboard DCC receiver
Proto-Sound 3.0 with The Digital Command System featuring: excursion Proto-Effects
Unit measures: 23 1/8” x 2 9/16” x 4 1/16”
Operates on O-31 curves

Steam DCC features:
Headlight/Tail light
Bell
Whistle
Start-up/Shut-down
Passenger station/Freight yard sounds
All other lights (on/off)
Master volume
Front coupler
Rear coupler
Forward signal
Reverse signal
Grade crossing
Smoke on/off
Smoke volume
Idle sequence 3
Idle sequence 2
Idle sequence 1
Extended start-up
Extended shut-down
One shot Doppler
Coupler slack
Coupler close
Single horn blast
Engine sounds
Brake sounds
Cab chatter
Feature reset
Labor chuff
Drift chuff

Condition: Factory New (C-9)
Operational Status: Functional
Original Box: Yes (P-9)

Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 30-1599-1
Road Name: Union Pacific (UP)

Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Steam Loco

The Trainz SKU for this item is P11976057.

Trainz Product Id: 11976057