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20-3495-1 Norfolk & Western 4-Truck Shay Steam Engine Cab No. 56 w/Proto-Sound 3.0 (Hi-Rail Wheels) - TEST RUN, LIKE NEW

This engine has about an hour of test run time and is in like-new condition.

Like many innovations, the Shay locomotive was invented by an entrepreneur trying to get a jump on the competition. When Civil War veteran and ex-schoolteacher Ephraim Shay opened a sawmill in Michigan in the 1870's, logging was largely a winter operation. Roads made of ice and snow enabled lumberjacks to bring timber to mills with horse-drawn sleds.  Shay reasoned - correctly, as it turned out - that laying rails through the woods would allow him to supply his mill year-round and undercut his competitors' lumber prices. Horses, Shay's original motive power, proved problematic as they tended to get run over by log cars on downgrades. Shay experimented with a small steam engine but the pounding of the side rods was too much for his light temporary track. The lightbulb moment came when he noticed that his flatcars, however, were not tough on the track, and he decided to power a flatcar with a steam engine and a belt drive to one axle. It was several years later in 1880 that machinist John Carnes at the Lima Machine Works, while modifying a locomotive for Ephraim Shay, came up with the idea of powering all trucks with a drive shaft and beveled gears. Within a few decades, the re-named Lima Locomotive Works was one of America's Big Three steam locomotive builders. Of the 2,770 Shays that Lima produced, only six were built after 1930. By 1944, when the Western Maryland ordered a massive 3-truck Shay to serve a Maryland coal mine, few Lima employees remembered how to build one. Shop crews preferred working on more familiar engines for the war effort, and it took a year to construct WM No. 6. What turned out to be the last and nearly the largest Shay ever built worked just four years before the mine closed and she was retired. Fortunately, one of the nation's first railroad museums opened nearby just a few years later, and No. 6 became the WM's contribution to the B&O Transportation Museum in Baltimore. Even more fortunately, No. 6 was later traded to the Cass Scenic Railroad in Cass, West Virginia, where she steams in tourist service today. The M.T.H 3-Truck and 4-Truck Shay reappears in the 2013 Premier Line fully detailed with digital sounds recorded from the actual engines used at Cass including the correct six chuffs per drive shaft revolution. Few, if any, previous O gauge models have duplicated the rapid-fire exhaust notes that make a Shay at crawl speed sound like it's going a hundred miles an hour. The combination of DCS and Proto-Sound 3.0 allows this model to portray the slow speed theatre and tremendous pulling power that marked Ephraim Shay's invention. Features Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis Die-Cast Tender Body 1:48 Scale Proportions Authentic Paint Scheme Real Coal Load Metal Wheels and Axles Constant Voltage Headlight Die-Cast Truck Sides Precision Flywheel Equipped Motor Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments Wireless Drawbar Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable (2) Remote Controlled Proto-Couplers Engineer and Fireman Figures Operating Firebox Glow Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell Decorative Metal Whistle Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke System Operating Tender Back-up Light On-board DCC Decoder Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Quillable Whistle With Freight Yard Proto-Effects Unit Measures:20 1/2 x 2 7/16 x 4 1/16 Operates On O-72 Curves Steam DCC Features

6-11157 Western Maryland 3-Truck Shay #6 w/TMCC, RailSounds - TEST RUN, LIKE NEW

This engine has about an hour of test run time on it and is in like-new condition.

Serving expanding lumber and coal industries, the Shay became the first locomotive able to penetrate thick forests and backwoods terrain where low speeds and high stability were essential. Western Maryland was one prominent railroads that put its trust in the rugged Shay to move Appalachian coal out of the region. The new Shay locomotive features the famous fireball logo of Western Maryland, and comes equipped with Command Control and the RailSounds sound system Command Control equipped – able to run in Command Control Mode or in Conventional Transformer Control Mode Speed control RailSounds sounds system with CrewTalk communication and TowerCom announcements DynaChuff synchronized chuffing Die-cast metal locomotive body, frame, and trucks Die-cast metal tender body and trucks with metal frame Separately applied metal details Fan-driven smoke unit with On/Off control ElectroCoupler on front and rear Directional lighting, including operating headlight and backup light Traction tires Firebox glow Engineer and fireman figures PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS Rail Line: Western Maryland Road Number: 6 Gauge: Standard O Scale Brand: Lionel Min Curve: O-54 Dimensions: Length: 15 ½”

K3438-0002W Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Scale Shay w/whistle & bell NEW IN THE BOX

The most popular geared engine used in logging operations was the Shay, with over 2700 engines built by Lima Locomotive Works between 1880 and 1945. This steamer, designed by logger Ephraim Shay, features a vertical engine on the right side, an off center boiler to the left and a lineshaft that connects the engine to every axle. This provided extra power, with reduced weight, so the Shay could climb steep grades and follow rough track, two hallmarks of early logging railroading. The K-LINE 1:48 Scale Model of the 60-Ton, 3-Cylinder, 2-Truck Shay brings this distinctive engine to the layouts of every railroader. Don't spend over $1000 for a logging engine. Equipped with digital sound, these Shay locos have all the bells and whistles for a whole lot less. Catalog: 2005 1st Edition Release Date: SOLD OUT Scale Shay Features • 1:48 Scale • All New Tooling • Die Cast Boiler • Die Cast Metal Chassis • Flywheel Equipped Motor • Puffing Smoke Synchronized to Wheels • Working Connecting Rods, Shafts and Gears • Metal Wheels and Axles • Lighted Cab Interior • Fire Box Glow • Separate Metal Handrails • Operating Headlight • Solid Brass Builder’s Plates • Engineer and Fireman Figures • Decorative Gold Plated Bell and Whistle • Whistle and Bell • Operates on O-31 • 10.5" Long