Broadway Limited Imports HO 6504 Big Boy with 25-C-400 Coal Tender, Union Pacific #4023

PARAGON3 SOUND/DC/DCC and SMOKE EQUIPPED
UP Big Boy #4023
1944
Wilson Aftercooler
25-C-400 Coal Tender

Often called the largest steam loco ever made, and certainly a contender for the World's Most Famous Locomotive, the Big Boy was forged under some of the most strenuous demands ever placed on a locomotive. The UP Railroad needed a locomotive that could be used to pull a 3,600-ton train over Sherman Hill and the 1.14% grade from Ogden to Wasatch, Utah without the need for helpers.

When the design specifications were complete, it was decided on the use of a simple articulated, high speed, 132 ft. long locomotive sporting sixteen 68 diameter drive wheels. What they created was the longest and among the heaviest, most powerful steam locomotive legends in the world. And had not the worker at ALCO chalked Big Boy on the side of the smoke box of one of the 4-8-8-4s under construction, a name that immediately caught on, it is rumored that the name of the type would have been Wasatch, for the mountains they were built to conquer.

FEATURES:
Paragon3 Sound and Operation System FEATURING ROLLING THUNDER with Authentic Sounds and Prototypical Operation in both DC and DCC environments
New Steam from the Whistle!
Factory Installed Engineer/Fireman Figures
Synchronized Puffing Smoke with each Chuff
Variable Puffing Smoke Intensity and Timing
Lighted Number Boards
Lighted Marker Lights
Locomotive Composition: Die Cast Body with Die Cast Chassis
Tender Composition: Die Cast Body with Die Cast Chassis
Couplers: (2) Operating Kadee or Compatible
Compatible Tracks: Code 83 and 100 Rail
Equipped with Traction Tires
Minimum Operating Radius: 18" or greater