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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
- Lighted Number Boards
- Factory Installed painted Fireman and
Engineer Figures
- Seuthe® Smoke Unit Ready
- Traction Tire Equipped for Maximum
Traction
- Locomotive Composition: ABS with Die Cast
Chassis
- Tender Composition: ABS with Die Cast
Chassis
- Locomotive Length: 7.0 in
- Tender Length: 4.9 in
- Total Coupler-to-Coupler Length: 12.5
in
- Motor type: 5-Pole Can with Skewed Armature
& Fly Wheel
- Couplers: (2) Operating Kadee®
Compatible
- Compatible Tracks: Code 70, 83, 100
Rail
- Recommended Minimum Radius: 18 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.
Built by Baldwin in 1927 and named for the first 20
U.S. Presidents, the final and most popular of the
Pacifics was B&Os P7 or Presidents
class. These uniquely painted locomotives made it
economically feasible for the B&O to handle
routes that previously were covered by the Reading
and CNJ railroads.
P7 Stats:
- cylinders were 27 x 28
- 80 inch drivers
- boiler pressure 230 psi
- starting tractive effort was 50,000
pounds
- weight 326,000 pounds
DID YOU KNOW? B&O P7 Pacifics were called
"President Engines" because they carried the name
of a president of the United States on the side of
the cab. When they were delivered in their green
and gold splendor in 1927, B&O was exactly 100
years old. Servicing the route between Washington
D.C. and New York, they maintained the original
paint scheme until Roy B. White, who became the
president of B&O in 1941, ordered the color of
the P7s be changed from green to blue and the
names of the presidents be removed from all
locomotives and passenger cars in the early part of
his administration. This was done to avoid the
color clash between P7 locomotives and the
blue-and-gray passenger cars.
PCM will model this P7 in its original physical
configuration. P7s with physical
configurations that were altered prior to 1941 were
not painted blue as the blue paint and original
configuration of that particular engine number
never existed. Blue and green are both correct
colors for engines with physical configurations
that were altered after 1941.
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