Athearn Genesis N GEN 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy' Locomotive
With their stable performance at speed and ability to handle large trains, Santa Fe found the 4-8-8-4 concept to be appealing. They took delivery of their 6000 class in 1944 to help handle wartime traffic. ATSF had experimented with compound articulated locomotives in the 1910s, but they were never entirely successful. Buying UP’s design “off-the-shelf” from ALCO was the logical choice, then.**Alternate history- some facets have been massaged
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Axles 12 Coupler Style McHenry Scale Knuckle DCC Ready/21-Pin NEM Era 1941-1970,1971-1990,1991-2009,2010-Present Day Full Road Name Santa Fe Lighting LED Minimum Radius 11 Prototype Manufacturer American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Reporting Mark ATSF Scale N Sub Brand GENESIS Customer ReviewsNo comments
