MTH 20-30180-1 - Premier - 2-3-1 Chapeleon Pacific Steam Engine "Paris Orleans" #231724 w/ PS3

• Road Name: Paris Orleans
• Road Number: 231724
• Product Line: Premier
• Scale: O Scale
• Min Curve: O42
• System: 3-Rail DCS

Features:

• Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis
• Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Tender Body
• Die-Cast Metal Chassis
• Authentic Paint Scheme
• Real Tender Coal Load
• Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks
• Handpainted Engineer and Fireman Figures
• Painted Cab Backhead Gauges
• Legible Builders Plates
• Metal Handrails, Whiste and Bell
• Sprung Buffers
• Tender Truck Chains
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• (2) Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
• (2) NEM 360/362 Coupler & Pocket Assemblies
• Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
• Constant Voltage LED Headlight
• Operating LED Firebox Glow
• Lighted LED Cab Interior
• Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel-Equipped Skew-Wound Motor
• Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke System
• Steaming Quillable Whistle
• Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
• Wireless Drawbar w/Close Coupling Option
• 1:48 Scale Dimensions
• Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
• Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable
• Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Quillable Whistle With Passenger Station Proto-Effects
• Unit Measures: 23 1/4” x 2 5/8” x 4”
• Operates On O-42 Curves Steam DCC Features EUROPEAN STEAM
• F0 Head/Tail light
• F1 Bell
• F2 Horn
• F3 Start-up/Shut-down
• F4 PFA
• F5 Lights (except head/tail)
• F6 Master Volume
• F7 Front Coupler
• F8 Rear Coupler
• F9 Forward Signal
• F10 Reverse Signal
• F11 Grade Crossing
• F12 Smoke On/Off
• F13 Smoke Volume
• F14 Idle Sequence 3
• F15 Idle Sequence 2
• F16 Idle Sequence 1
• F17 Extended Start-up
• F18 Extended Shut-down
• F19 Train Marker
• F20 Train Operation
• F22 Coupler Slack
• F23 Coupler Close
• F21 One Shot Doppler
• F24 Single Horn Blast
• F25 Engine Sounds
• F26 Brake Sounds
• F27 Cab Chatter
• F28 Feature Reset

Overview:

In the late 1800s, train travel across Europe was a messy affair. At each national border, passengers got off one train, walked across the border, and climbed aboard another. Like George Pullman in the United States, Belgian George Nagelmackers dreamed of something better: a rolling hotel in which travelers could sleep, eat, and relax from one end of their journey to the other. In 1883, the Orient Express made the dream a reality: a single train from Paris to Romania (and within a few years, from Paris to Istanbul), with rolling stock supplied by Nagelmackers' Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et Grandes Express Europeens ("wagon-lit" being French for sleeping car). Only the locomotives were changed as the Orient Express rolled across no less than seven national borders on its three-day journey.

From 1889 to 1977, with interruptions for two world wars, the Orient Express ran from Gare de l'Est station in Paris to Sirkeci Terminal on the Golden Horn, the gateway to Asia. After the 12-mile-long Simplon Tunnel was opened under the Alps, a second, more southerly route was added in 1919: the Simplon Orient Express via Milan, Venice, and Trieste. The train, of course, got caught up in the politics of the regions through which it ran and became a setting for international intrigue, mystery, and romance—more so in fiction than in fact. The Orient Express' screen credits include the James Bond film From Russia With Love and, most famously, movie and print versions of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express. The long, dark passage through the Simplon Tunnel, of course, has been a favorite setting for nefarious events.

Add a touch of color, mystery, and intrigue (but hopefully not murder) to your own railroad with our first-ever M.T.H. model of a European prototype. This engine replicates the French Pacific (2-3-1E wheel arrangement in French parlance, which counts axles rather than wheels) that hauled the Orient Express from Paris to the French border in the period between the world wars. The sound set in this fully featured Premier model includes a European whistle and station announcements in English and French.