Description
Description: All Article Number / Manufacturer: 50951 / Bachmann Item: Nickel Plate 759 – Railfan Ver. DCC Sound (N Berkshire 2-8-4).This DCC sound-equipped locomotive includes our Sound Value Sound-Traxx steam package that includes authentic prototypical chuff, short and long whistles, bell, air pump, steam release, and blower–all in 16-bit polyphonic sound. Coreless motor; die-cast chassis, boiler, and frame; details, cab, and tender style per prototype; brass-machined flywheel; metal handrails and stan-chions; LED headlight and tender backup light; die-cast marker lights; see-through underframe; metal wheels; and E-Z Mate Mark II couplers.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Supplied with Sound Value Sound Traxx steam package involving:
o detailed chuff
o whistles (long and short)
o bell
o air pump
o steam release
o blower-all in 16-bit polyphonic sound.
• Coreless motor
• Die-cast engine
• Boiler and frame
• Cab, and tender design by prototype
• Brass-machined flywheel
• Metal handrails and stanchions
• LED headlight and tender backup light
• Die-cast marker lights
• Transparent under-frame
• Metal wheels
• Top of the line E-Z Mate Mark II couplers
UPC: 022899509518
Prototype History:
Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle, usually in a leading truck, followed by four powered and coupled driving axles, and two unpow-ered trailing axles, usually mounted in a bogie. This locomotive type is most often referred to as a Berkshire, though the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway used the name Kanawha for their 2-8-4s. In Europe, this wheel arrangement was mostly seen in mainline passenger express locomotives and, in certain countries, in tank locomotives. Locomotives of a 2-8-4 wheel arrangement were used mainly for hauling fast express freight trains on heavy freight service. They often replaced older 2-8-2 Mikados where more power was required. In turn, they were often replaced by even more powerful 2-10-4 Texas type locomotives.
In the USA, the Berkshire type’s big boost came in 1934, when the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road or NKP) received its first 2-8-4s, built to a new design from the Advisory Mechanical Committee (AMC) of the Van Sweringen empire. Under the Van Sweringen umbrella were the Nickel Plate Road, Erie Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and Pere Mar-quette Railway.
