MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS

In a classic case of putting the cart before the horse, the construction of New York's Pennsylvania Station began before suitable electric motive power had been developed to shuttle cars underneath the city's streets. As the 1910 completion date of Penn Station neared, this technological race wound down to its finish with the creation of a powerful and practical electric locomotive. The 4-4-0 Box Cab electric, known as a DD-1, was run back-to-back under the city as the exclusive handler of mainline trains running from Manhattan Transfer in New Jersey to the New York Terminal. A total of 33 DD-1 pairs were built by the Pennsy. Their underground duty continued until 1925 when they began moving to mainline service between New York and Washington, DC. By 1927, the Pennsylvania began selling the units off to the Long Island Railroad which used them until 1951 for a variety of freight and passenger runs. One of the Long Island requirements for the DD-1 was to shuttle a line of milk tank cars for Sheffield Farms and other dairies between the Jamaica and Sunnyside Yards. The tanks containing the milk were housed inside refrigerated boxcars and represented a vital link in the distribution of fresh milk via rail. M.T.H. is proud to recreate this unique and important train in our 2003 Premier Line. Each powered DD-1 unit features the standard details and Proto-Sound 2.0 features you've come to expect in M.T.H. products. The four milk tank cars are recreated in all die-cast reefer cars each mounted on special arch bar trucks. Did You Know? PRR 3936 and 3837, two surviving DD-1s, are housed at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA.