MTH 20-3809-1 - 4-6-2 USRA Pacific Steam Engine "Monon" #445 w/ PS3 (Indiana University) - Custom Run for MrMuffin'sTrains

• Road Name: Monon - Decorated for Indiana University
• Road Number: Cab #445
• Product Line: Premier
• Scale: O Scale

Old Sku: 20-382MI-1

MTH Sku: 20-3809-1

Features:

• Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis
• Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Tender Body
• Authentic Paint Scheme
• Real Tender Coal Load
• Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks
• Handpainted Engineer and Fireman Figures
• Metal Handrails, Whistle and Bell
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• Remote Controlled Proto-Coupler
• O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
• Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
• Constant Voltage LED Headlight
• Operating LED Firebox Glow
• Operating LED Marker Lights
• Lighted LED Cab Interior
• Operating Tender LED Back-up Light
• Powerful 7-Pole Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motor
• Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke System
• Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
• Wireless Drawbar
• 1:48 Scale Dimensions
• Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
• Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Passenger Station Proto-Effects
• Unit Measures:24 5/16" x 2 9/16" x 3 15/16"
• Operates On O-42 Curves

Steam DCC Features

• 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 Labor Chuff
• F20 Drift Chuff
• F21 One Shot Doppler
• F22 Coupler Slack
• F23 Coupler Close
• F24 Single Horn Blast
• F25 Engine Sounds
• F26 Brake Sounds
• F27 Cab Chatter
• F28 Feature Reset

Overview:

Illustration is colorized photo

The Monon served both Bloomington, Indiana and West Lafayette, Indiana, and it provided rail transportation to the football games. In 1927, and again in 1928, they painted two of their Pacific's in school colors for the annual Old Oaken Bucket game. 

During World War I, Uncle Sam nationalized the railroads when they proved unequal to the task of moving massive amounts of men and materiel for the war effort. The agency that ran the trains was the United States Railroad Administration, or USRA, and one of its chief accomplishments was the creation of 12 steam engine designs that lasted for decades. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USRA locomotives were "the first successful standardization of American motive power" - and the only standard designs until the diesel era.