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PREORDER FOR 12-1335 NYC L-4b Mohawk 4-8-2 Undecorated

MSRP: $450.00
FDT Low Preorder Price: $359.99
You Save: $90.01 (20%)
Item Number: 12-1335
Manufacturer: Broadway Limited Imports, LLC
Manufacturer Part No: 12-1335
  Features
 
  • Brass Hybrid Locomotive and tender with accurate detail
  • Premium caliber painting
  • Out-of-the-box operation for DC and DCC (with system auto-sensing)
  • 5-pole can motor with skew wound armature and fly wheel
  • Powerful High Fidelity DC/DCC Sound equipped with authentic NYC Mohawk sounds
 
  • Nickel Silver rods and valve gear
  • Full cab detail
  • Prototypical light operation
  • Scale operating Kadee couplers
  • Builder's plate
  • Golden white LED
Steam engines with the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement are usually called "Mountains." But NYC called theirs Mohawks named after the Mohawk River, as they found "Mountain" inappropriate for their flat route. NYC had four different classes of Mohawks named L-1 through L-4. The L-3 and L-4 classes were used both for freight and passenger services. A total of fifty L-4 Mohawks were produced by Lima Locomotive Works in 1943. They had huge tender coal space supported by two 6-wheel trucks. Many L-4 locomotives were equipped with smoke deflectors in their later years. The New York Central became the largest user of this wheel arrangement with 600 locomotives of this type as this type is best suited in many ways for high speed operation on flatland than slow mountain slogging, with its 4-wheel leading trucks for stability at speed. Building the most accurate and best running Mohawk is the goal of this project for our deserving customers.

**Specifications on this page subject to change.

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