Parní lokomotiva modelové železnice v měřítku HO pro železniční modeláře v modelářské kvalitě - Walers 920-32013 Virginian Railway USRA #741 HO 2000 Heritage Mallet Heavy Freight 2-8-8-2 Y-3 Steam Locomotive & Tender DCC & Sound.

* With Sound & DCC. * Sound operates on standard DC or DCC systems. Features Dual Steam Engine Sounds, Whistle, Bell, Squealing Brakes, Doppler Effect, Generator Whine and Trailer mode to mute whistle and bell for double-heading. * Now with Separate Traction Tires for Maximum Pulling Power * 200 Hand-Applied Details * Detailed Cab Interior w/Operating Windows * Constant & Directional Lights * Handles 18" Radius Curves & #4 Turnouts! * Slow Speed Under 3 Scale MPH; Fast speed to 65 Scale MPH * 16-Wheel Drive and 24-Wheel Electrical Pick-Up * Dual Flywheels.

Norfolk & Western Power from Coast to CoastIn 1919, the American Locomotive Company built forty-five 2-8-8-2 steam locomotives to the specifications of the United States Railway Administration. These locomotives were the biggest that the USRA had ever designed and were destined for the Norfolk & Western Railway. After almost a quarter century on the Norfolk & Western, nineteen Y-3 locomotives were sold to other railroads at the behest of the federal government, including the Union Pacific and Santa Fe. In 1947, the Santa Fe found a buyer for its 1790-class when the Virginian Railway purchased seven of the locomotives.

The first 2-8-8-2 was built in 1909 by Baldwin, who sold two to the Southern Pacific Railroad (classified MC-1), and then three each to the Union Pacific Railroad and UP-owned Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Baldwin conceived the type as an expansion of the 2-6-6-2 permitting a greater tractive effort.

The next order for the type was from the Southern Pacific; these differed in being cab forward locomotives, so that the crew could have better visibility and breathing in the SP’s long tunnels and snow sheds. They were very successful, and SP continued to order cab-forward locomotives, building an eventual fleet of 256 of numerous classes; later cab-forwards were 4-8-8-2s.

The 2-8-8-2 proved itself to be a capable hauler on mountain grades, enabling the replacement of several smaller locomotives and hauling longer trains than before. Most of them were not fast; they hauled at drag freight speeds, up to 25 mph (40 km/h). However, the Norfolk & Western Y6 class were designed to run up to 55 mph (89 km/h). The locomotives were adopted by a broad spectrum of mountain railroads, including the Norfolk & Western, Southern, Virginian, Great Northern, Clinchfield, Denver & Rio Grande, Reading, Western Maryland, Missouri Pacific, Frisco, and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway. On many railroads, the locomotives of the type were the most powerful on the roster. When built, the 2-8-8-2s of the Western Pacific Railroadwere among the most powerful steam locomotives in the world and formed the basis for the later 2-8-8-4 “Yellowstone” type engines used by the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range.

The very last compound Mallet locomotives to operate on major railroads in the United States were the 2-8-8-2 Y6b class of the Norfolk and Western Railway. After their final modifications in the 1950s, they were said to be capable of 170,000 lbs tractive effort in simple-expansion mode, although some have questioned this claim (the original design tractive effort was 152,206 lbs SIMPLE and 126,838 lbs COMPOUND). The last were retired in May 1961.

As of 2008, there are two surviving 2-8-8-2 locomotives, both former Norfolk & Western. N&W 2050 is from the railroad’s Y3a class; ALCO’s Richmond works built it in 1923; and it resides at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, USA. N&W 2156 is from the railroad’s Y6a class; N&W’s own Roanoke Shops built it in 1942; and it resides at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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