Description
Jr Junction Train & Hobby is pleased to bring to our line of exclusive products, one of railroading’s most famous diesel locomotive manufacturers, Fairbanks, Morse and Co. Erie Built.
Fairbanks Morse actually began life as an engine builder for the U.S. Navy thanks to its revolutionary opposed-piston diesel power plants first developed in the early 1930s. By 1944, the company entered the locomotive business when its first H10-44 diesel switcher rolled out of the FM shops destined for the Milwaukee Road railroad.
Fairbanks Morse officials knew that real success in the locomotive business would only come if the company could produce a road cab engine and elected to use a Raymond Loewy carbody design to make that goal a reality. Unfortunately, FM did not have the shop capacity to produce the engine themselves so it was contracted out to General Electric’s nearby Erie, Pennsylvania plant. Thus, FM’s first road cab engine was dubbed the “Erie-Built” and made its debut in 1945. A total of 111 of the 8,000 horsepower haulers were produced with the last retired from the Kansas City Southern in 1966.
Our exclusive New York Central “Abbreviated Stripe” Erie-Built marks a recreation of the more famous of Fairbanks Morse locomotives following the Trainmaster, H10-44 Switcher and the C-Liner. Like its Premier line predecessors, the Erie-Built, last produced in 2004, offers the O Scale model railroad enthusiast unmatched value thanks to the awesome sounds and features of Proto-Sound 3.0, intricate body detail, crisp decoration and incredible pulling power. We’d like to believe it is a real “stump puller” as it hauls your long freight trains on the famous “water level route”.
Features:
•Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
•Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
•Metal Chassis
•Metal Handrails and Horn
•Moveable Roof Fans
•Metal Body Side Grilles
•(2) Hand Painted Engineer Cab Figures
•Authentic Paint Scheme
•Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
•(2) Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
•Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
•Directional Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlight
•Lighted LED Cab Interior Light
•Illuminated LED Number Boards
•Lighted LED Front Marker Lights
•(2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors
•(1) Operating ProtoSmoke Diesel Exhaust Units
•Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
•Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
•1:48 Scale Proportions
•Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Passenger Station Proto-Effects
•Unit Measures: 16 1/4″ x 2 5/8″ x 3 7/8″
•Operates On O-42″ Curves