MTH 20-3929-1 - 4-6-2 P47 Baldwin Pacific Steam Engine "Erie" #2943 w/ PS3 - Custom Run for MrMuffin'sTrains

Product Description

Announced Date:

Jan 2024

Released Date:

Nov 2024

Individually Boxed:

Yes

Road Name: Erie

Road Number: 2943

Product Line: Premier

Scale: O Scale

Formerly 20-392Erie

Features:

Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis

Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Tender Body

Authentic Paint Scheme

Real Tender Coal Load

Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks

Handpainted Engineer and Fireman Figures

Painted Cab Backhead Gauges

Legible Builders Plates

Metal Handrails, Whiste and Bell

Tender Truck Chains

Metal Wheels and Axles

Remote-Controlled Proto-Coupler

O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads

Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting

Constant Voltage LED Headlight

Operating LED Firebox Glow

Operating LED Marker Lights

Operating LED Numberboard Lights

Lighted LED Cab Interior

Operating Tender LED Back-up Light

Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel-Equipped Skew-Wound Motor

Operating ProtoSmoke System

Steaming Quillable Whistle

Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments

Wireless Drawbar

1:48 Scale Dimensions

Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder

Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Quillable Whistle With Passenger Station Proto-Effects

Unit Measures: 23” x 2 5/8” x 3 11/16”

Operates On O-36 Curves 

Steam DCC Features

F0 Head/Tail light

F1 Bell

F2 Horn

F3 Start-up/Shut-down

F4 PFA

F5 Lights (except head/tail)

F6 Master Volume

F7 Steaming Whistle

F8 Rear Coupler

F9 Forward Signal

F10 Reverse Signal

F11 Grade Crossing

F12 Smoke On/Off

F13 Smoke Volume

F14 Idle Sequence 3

F15 Idle Sequence 2

F16 Idle Sequence 1

F17 Extended Start-up

F18 Extended Shut-down

F19 Labor Chuff

F20 Drift Chuff

F21 One Shot Doppler

F22 Coupler Slack

F23 Coupler Close

F24 Single Horn Blast

F25 Engine Sounds

F26 Brake Sounds

F27 Cab Chatter

F28 Feature Reset

Overview:

At the very apex of the Roaring Twenties, just months before 1929 stock market crash, the Central Railroad of New Jersey inaugurated its twice-daily Blue Comet service between Jersey City and Atlantic City. Heading the fast, luxurious trains were the CNJ’s nearly-new Baldwin-built P47 Heavy Pacifics. Three locomotives — painted in a beautiful blue livery with nickel trim, carrying the train’s name on a bronze plate under the feed water heater, and numbered 831, 832 and 833 — covered The Blue Comet’s fast schedule along the Jersey shoreline. Two sister engines were assigned to lesser CNJ name trains: No. 834 in green pulled The Bullet while No. 835 in black livery hauled The Queen of the Valley.

The Blue Comet consist was painted in blue to symbolize the sea and sky of the Jersey shore, with a cream window band to represent both the shoreline’s pristine sand and a comet streaking through the heavens. In a departure from normal railroad practice, the cars carried the train name rather than the railroad name on their letterboards. The rolling stock consisted of rebuilt coaches and diners trailed by an open-platform brass-railed observation, with each car named for a different comet. The Blue Comet was also the first train east of the Mississippi to be equipped with roller bearing trucks.

Joshua Lionel Cowen is said to have been a frequent customer on The Blue Comet, and he certainly memorialized the train far beyond its native Jersey shores. His Standard Gauge Blue Comet is perhaps the most well-known and desired Standard Gauge toy train ever built, and its popularity continues today, long after the prototype succumbed to competition from the automobile in 1941.