Chesapeake & Ohio O Scale Premier 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Freight Set w/Proto-Sound 3.0

By 1940, the C&O was looking for some new muscle to push, pull, and drag coal loads over the mountains between West Virginia and the eastern seaboard. Lima Locomotive Works knew they could design something that would fill the C&O's needs even better than the big-boilered Texas 2-10-4s the railroad considered buying. The resulting locomotive was the 2-6-6-6 Allegheny (named for the tough mountain range it had to conquer), first delivered in 1941. The six-wheeled trailing truck that gave this locomotive a new wheel design was necessary because the firebox was located completely behind the drivers.

Not only did engineers have to add an extra set of wheels to the trailing truck, but they had to give the tender an unusual fourth pair of wheels on the rear truck. The Class H-8 Alleghenies required huge tenders-each carrying 25,000 gallons of water and 25 tons of coal. But because they still had to fit on the C&O's 115-foot turntables, the tank was made taller in the rear. The extra weight required extra wheels to support it. Other railroads, like the Virginian Railroad, that had to traverse similar mountainous territory also bought Alleghenies.

M.T.H. is proud to return the 2-6-6-6 Allegheny, considered by many to be the best articulated locomotive ever designed, to the rails again in Chesapeake & Ohio and Virginian schemes outfitted for the first time with Proto-Sound 3.0.

Did You Know?

Two surviving Alleghenies can still be seen by the public. No. 1618 resides at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. No. 1601 can be seen at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan.

Set Includes:

• Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Steam Engine w/Proto-Sound 3.0 (Hi-Rail Wheels)
• (5) Fish Belly Hopper Cars
• (1) Steel Caboose

  Locomotive Features:

   

• Die-Cast Boiler and Tender Body
• 1:48 Scale Proportions
• Die-Cast Metal Chassis
• Real Coal Load
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• Constant Voltage Headlight
• Die-Cast Truck Sides
• Remote Controlled Proto-Coupler
• Engineer and Fireman Figures
• Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell
• Decorative Metal Whistle
• Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
• Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke System
• Precision Flywheel Equipped Motor
• Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable
• Wireless Drawbar
• Illuminated Number Boards
• Illuminated Classification Lights
• Lighted Cab Interior
• Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Passenger Station Proto-Effects
• Unit Measures:30 ½" x 4 ¼" x 2 _"
• Operates On O-72 Curves

  Freight Car Set Features

   

• Durable ABS Intricately Detailed Bodies
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
• Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
• Separate Metal Handrails
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
• Needle-Point Axles
• 1:48 Scale Dimensions
• Detailed Car Undercarriage
• Operates On O-31 Curves