HO-MTH - MILW "LITTLE JOE" ELECTRIC w/DCC SOUND E75

HO Scale Model Railroad Item

1/87th Scale

Intended as an Adult Display Model - for Ages Over 18<></>

Mint Condition

MTH HO Scale

FACTORY INSTALLED DCC / DCS & SOUND

DUAL MODE OPERATION DC Analog or DCC Digital

UNITS ARE ON OUR SHELF FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

MILWAUKEE

"LITTLE JOE"

FREIGHT VERSION

ELECTRIC

Locomotive

with

Remotely Controlled

Operating

Dual Pantographs

Originally scheduled for July 2010

they have now arrived

Cab # E75

Cab numbers in photo may vary

NEW ITEM MINT IN THE BOX THIS IS NEW IN THE FACTORY BOX IT HAS NOT BEEN ON A LAYOUT AND HAS BEEN IN OUR WAREHOUSE NEVER ON DISPLAY YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO OPEN THE BOX. ********************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************ AUCTION IS FOR THE "ORANGE FREIGHT VERSION" UNIT AS PICTUED all ORANGE Road Number may vary from the picture MTH has the wrong picture on their website for the E75 STOCK MANUFACTURER'S PHOTOS ALL BOXES ARE UNOPENED NOT EVEN FOR THE PICTURE **************************************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************* Product Line: MTH HO Roadname: Milwaukee Road Little Joe Electric with Proto-Sound 3.0 - Milwaukee Road Cab Nos. E75 Product Number: 80-2039-1 Photos show cab details and Pantographs Pantographs operate remotely with your DCC throttle and can be raised and lowered electronically **************************************** Auction is for the "ORANGE FREIGHT Version" unit pictured above ******************************************************************

By the late 1940s, the engines on the Milwaukee Road's electrified Rocky Mountain Division were nearly three decades old and tired, and diesels were the wave of the future. Management was intending to pull down the overhead wires and dieselize the entire division. Then along came a big electric named Little Joe, and the wires stayed up for another quarter-century. The Joes were actually built for another customer half a world away, Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad. But by the time they were ready to deliver in 1948, the Cold War had frozen sales to the Soviet Union, and builder General Electric was stuck with twenty 5,500 hp locomotives designed to run on 3,300 volts DC - most built to Russian 5' track gauge. As the Milwaukee Road was one of the few American railroads with overhead DC power (at 3,000 volts), GE offered the entire order, including spare parts, to the Milwaukee at the fire sale price of one million dollars. At least one unit, painted in GE demo colors, was tested on both of the road's electrified divisions in 1948 and acquired the nickname "Little Joe" after Joe Stalin. But the Milwaukee came up with reasons not to make the purchase, and in 1949 three units went to the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad for freight service. They lasted until 1983, earning the honor of last electric engines in US mainline common-carrier freight service. Brazil's Paulista Railroad bought five more Joes, nicknamed them Russas and operated them until 1999. An upsurge of traffic from the Korean War convinced the Milwaukee it had made a mistake, and in August 1950 it purchased the remaining 12 Joes, without spare parts, for the original million-dollar price. All went to the Rocky Mountain Division between Harlowton, Montana and Avery, Idaho - ten designated EF-4 for freight service and two as EP-4s for Olympian Hiawatha passenger trains. Engineers loved the new Joes because they were more reliable than the road's ancient boxcabs and much less stressful to operate. Originally the freight units worked in pairs, with a boxcab helper added on the division's tougher grades. But later in the 1950s a GP9 was attached to the Little Joe pairs and controlled from the lead Joe; this combination could run straight through electrified territory without adding or dropping helpers. By the following decade, Joes were simply cut in ahead of the freight diesels at the beginning of electrified territory, with the Joe's engineer controlling all units. Eventually, however, second-generation diesels brought an end to electrification, and on June 15, 1974, the last Little Joes folded their pantographs - ending 58 years, 6 months, and 16 days of Milwaukee main line electrification. While most of the Joes were scrapped, three survive today: one Milwaukee Road unit in Deer Lodge, Montana, and South Shore units at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois and the Lake Shore Railway Historical Museum in North East, PA, just ten miles from the GE plant where it was built. New for 2010, the M.T.H. Little Joe duplicates the brute strength and dependability of the original, complete with a detailed die-cast metal body and, for the first time in HO, operating pantographs that raise and lower automatically according to the direction of travel. FEATURES Features Die-Cast Body Authentic Paint Scheme & Cab Numbers RP-25 Metal Wheels Mounted On Metal Axles Constant Voltage, Directional Headlights Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting Remotely Controlled, Directionally Activated Operating Pantographs Detailed Truck Sides Detailed Cab Interior Powerful 12-Volt 5-Pole Precision Skew-Wound Flywheel Equipped Motor (2) Scale Kadee Compatible Remotely Controlled Proto-Couplers (2) User-Installed Kadee Compatible Magnetic Couplers Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell Decorative Metal Horn Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments Interchangeable Traction Tire-Equipped Drive Wheels On-Board DCC Receiver Operates On Code 70, 83, & 100 Rail Curves Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotives can be controlled in command mode with any DCC compliant command control system. While the user won't have access to all of the incredible features of Proto-Sound 3.0, independent control over the locomotive is possible. This means you can continue to use your existing DCC controller to independently control your other DCC equipped locomotives in addition to your Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive on the same track at the same time. When using a DCC controller, the following Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive features are accessible: F0 Headlight F1 Bell F2 Whistle/Horn F3 Start Up/Shut Down F4 Rear Coupler F5 Front Coupler F6 Engine Sounds On/Off F7 Sound Volume F8 Ditch Lights Auto/On/Off F9 Forward Signal F10 Reverse Signal F11 Grade Crossing Signal F12 Cab Light On/Off F13 Extended Start Up F14 Extended Shut Down F15 Rev Up F16 Rev Down F17 Coupler Slack Sound F18 Coupler Close F19 One-Shot Doppler F20 Feature Reset F21 Idle Sequence 1 F22 Idle Sequence 2 F23 Idle Sequence 3 F24 Ditch Lights Auto/On/Off F25 Brakes Auto/Off F26 Cab Chatter Auto/Off F27 Clickety-Clack Auto/Off F28 Coupler Slack Sound Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Freight Yard Proto-Effects Unit Measures:12 3/4" x 1 3/8" x 2 7/16" Operates On 18" Radius Curves THIS IS AN ADULT COLLECTIBLE ITEM NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN

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