Announced Date: |
May 2024 |
Released Date: |
Est. OCT 2024 |
Individually Boxed: |
N/A |
- Road Name: Jersey Central (Blue Comet)
- Road Number: 831
- Product Line: RailKing
- Scale: O Scale
Features:
- Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis
- Die-Cast Tender Body
- Die-Cast Metal Chassis
- Colorful Paint Scheme
- Real Tender Coal Load
- Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks
- Engineer and Fireman Figures
- Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell
- Decorative Metal Whistle
- Metal Wheels and Axles
- Remote Controlled Proto-Coupler
- Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
- Constant Voltage Headlight
- Operating Marker Lights
- Lighted Cab Interior
- Precision Flywheel Equipped Motor
- Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke System
- Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
- Wireless Drawbar
- Near Scale Sizing
- Onboard DCC Receiver
- Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Passenger Station Proto-Effects
- Unit Measures:20" x 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
- Operates On O-31 Curves
Steam DCC Features
- Headlight/Tail light
- Bell
- Whistle
- Start-up/Shut-down
- Passenger Station/Freight Yard Sounds
- All Other Lights (On/Off)
- Master Volume
- Front Coupler
- Rear Coupler
- Forward Signal
- Reverse Signal
- Grade Crossing
- Smoke On/Off
- Smoke Volume
- Idle Sequence 3
- Idle Sequence 2
- Idle Sequence 1
- Extended Start-up
- Extended Shut-down
- One Shot Doppler
- Coupler Slack
- Coupler Close
- Single Horn Blast
- Engine Sounds
- Brake Sounds
- Cab Chatter
- Feature Reset
- Labor Chuff
- Drift Chuff
Overview:
At the very apex of the Roaring Twenties, just months before 1929 stock market crash, the Central of New Jersey Railroad inaugurated its twice-daily Blue Comet service between Jersey City and Atlantic City. Heading the fast, luxurious trains were the CNJ's nearly-new Baldwin-built class G-3 heavy Pacifics. Like most railroads in the 1920s, the CNJ had been forced to buy larger motive power to cope with heavier steel trains and increasing patronage. Aging fleets of 4-4-0s, 4-4-2s, and 4-6-0s had become inadequate as business expanded, and the 4-6-2 Pacific type became the standard fast passenger engine on many railroads.
Five G-3 Pacifics, later reclassified as P47 locomotives, headed up the Jersey's famed passenger trains. Three locomotives - painted in a beautiful blue livery with nickel trim and numbered 831, 832 and 833 - covered The Blue Comet's fast schedule along the Jersey shoreline. A fourth G-3, No. 834, was painted green and sped The Bullet between New York City and Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The fifth locomotive, No. 835, wore gleaming black paint and hauled The Queen of the Valley, a deluxe train from New York City to Harrisburg.
Each of these extraordinary locomotives sport Imperial Dress with additional detail and the incredible power and performance of Proto-Soundr 3.0.