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Features:
- Beautifully Detailed, Accurately Modeled
Locomotive and Tender Body
- Authentic Design, Paint and Color
Schemes
- Authentic Sounds (Sound Equipped Units Only)
and Prototypical Operation
- Many Separately Applied Details Including
Brass Bell / Rails
- Detailed Backhead
- Operating Cab-roof Vents
- Constant Intensity Directional Lighting
- Operating Mars Light
- Lighted Number Boards
- Factory Installed painted Fireman and
Engineer Figures
- Fan Driven Smoke Unit with User Controlled
On/Off
- Traction Tire Equipped for Maximum
Traction
- Locomotive Composition: Die Cast Metal
- Tender Composition: Die Cast Metal
- Locomotive Length: 10.8 in
- Tender Length: 6.35 in
- Motor type: 5-Pole Can with Skewed Armature
& Fly Wheel
- Couplers: (1) Kadee® Compatible, (1)
Kadee® #58
- Compatible Tracks: Code 70, 83, 100
Rail
- Recommended Minimum Radius: 22 in
"DCC & Sound Upgradeable"? Units denoted as
DCC & Sound Upgradeable are units that are not
sound equipped and function only in DC. Modelers
may choose to purchase an optional Sound & DCC
upgrade kit, specifically tailored to the prototype
which will add DCC and sound functionality. Upgrade
kit works only for PCM models with PCM
motherboards.
Southern Pacific’s engineers created an
elegant locomotive when designing the GS-4. Not
only was her appearance breathtaking, but
mechanically she was stunning. These locomotives
had 80-inch drivers, boiler pressure of 300 psi,
and small cylinder diameter that provided
additional speed and power from earlier designs.
The GS-4’s developed 5,500HP at 55mph and were
cross and counterbalanced to reach maximum speeds
of 110mph! Also, a 12-volt motor driven signal
light reflector, or Mars light, was placed above
the headlight. The beam projected forward in a
figure eight to a distance of 1,400 to 3,000 feet
and sideways to a distance of 750 feet. All this
for the reasonable price of approximately
$175,000.
4449 resides at Union Pacific’s Brooklyn
Roundhouse in Portland, Oregon.
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