Broadway Limited Imports HO 10200 Union Pacific 4-8-4, Class FEF-3, #8444, 1962-1973 Appearance, Paragon4 Sound/DC/DCC, w/ Smoke
Broadway Limited Imports HO 10200 Union Pacific 4-8-4, Class FEF-3, #8444, 1962-1973 Appearance, Paragon4 Sound/DC/DCC, w/ Smoke is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Description
Description
About this model
ALCO delivered ten FEF-3s, Nos. 835 to 844, in December 1944. They rode on 80-inch drivers with 14-wheel centipede tenders and ran fast with UP's best trains: the Overland Limited, the Los Angeles Limited, the Portland Rose and the Challenger.
When the diesels took over, every FEF-3 but one was retired. No. 844 never was. It is the only steam locomotive a North American Class I railroad never retired. In 1962 UP gave the 844 number to a new GP30, so the steamer ran as 8444 until it got its number back in 1989.
This is #8444 in black with an aluminum smokebox, as it looked in its early excursion years, 1962 to 1973.
This version: Paragon4 Sound/DC/DCC with puffing smoke and whistle steam. Prefer to add your own decoder? See the DCC-Ready version.
Pairs well with
- #844 in Greyhound gray: the same engine almost thirty years later
- #8444 in its 1973-1987 appearance
Then and now: put this beside #844 in Greyhound gray.
Model features
- Paragon4 Sound & Control System, DC and DCC, integral decoder with back EMF
- Synchronized puffing smoke with chuff sound, variable intensity and timing
- Separate whistle smoke: steam streams from the whistle when it blows
- Separately controllable headlight, cab light, front numberboards, front marker lights and rear tender deck light
- Factory-installed engineer and fireman figures
- Accurate prototype sounds for the UP FEF-3 Northern
- FEF-3 double or triple stack, accurate for each road number
- Accurately modeled turret casing
- Individual side rods
- Walschaerts valve gear
- Centipede-style oil tender with detailed oil insert (#844/8444 carries the Heritage Fleet containment dam; other numbers do not)
- Worthington or Sellers feedwater heater options
- Cast steel Commonwealth pilot with front coupler or pilot insert option
- Heavy die-cast boiler, tender body and chassis
- 5-pole can motor with skew-wound armature; precision drive for heavy loads and smooth slow speed
- Separately applied handrails, ladders, piping, whistle and brass bell
- Rubber traction tires
- Minimum radius: 22 inches
Paragon4 sound features
- Built-in capacitor pack for imperfect track (disables on the program track for JMRI DecoderPro)
- Pro Lighting Mode for individual control of every light
- Switcher Mode for precise low-speed control
- Record and Play for automated sound and movement playback
- Quillable whistle, adjustable bell interval, Johnson bar sound on direction change
- Passenger and crew sounds on command, automatic grade crossing and forward/reverse signals
- Chuff intensity varies with load; every effect has its own volume
- EZ Reset button for factory defaults
Specifications subject to change by Broadway Limited.
Broadway Limited Imports HO 10200 Union Pacific 4-8-4, Class FEF-3,...
