Sunset Models 3rd Rail Pennsylvania "6200" S-2 6-4-4-6

Tim

Third Rail offered a three rail version of this engine as well. The one I had had no sound, an electronic reverse , QSI I believe , two seuthe Smokeunits in the two forward stacks and a lionel style knuckle on the tender. It had a button below to work with an uncoupling track. I was told that the electronics on board had electrical capability to handle no more than the two seuthe smoke units, even though the model has the 4 stack configuration of the prototype.  It was a fairly basic locomotive and one of their first offerings. I thought it ran rather well.

This engine is equipped with two center pick-up rollers and runs effortlessly on my AC 3-rail gargraves trackage.  Tim

I got one directly from Mort Mann at a discount.  It had 3-rail wheels, no innards except motor and gears, no couplers, no smokebox number board, and lettering one side of the tender only.  Still, it was a good deal at the time, and runs like the wind.  Hardest part of the conversion was machining the drivers.

My advice, having purchased and installed maybe a hundred Pittmans, is to leave the motor alone.  If it is noisy, just take the flywheel off.  The motor it comes with is a cheap, high RPM motor that is well suited to the gearing.

The scale version had sprung trucks, and otherwise was not much different.

Also, a more highly detailed 2R version of this loco was done under the "Sunset" name before the 3rd Rail versions. I think all the various runs were done by Samhongsa. Key had one listed as a project a while back, but I don't think it saw the light of day.

Simon

From time to time I think about converting mine to Proto-2

How awful

Ouch. We really miss you down at the club, Rex.

i've got one..won it from traizs off of ebay...came with qsi reverse unitv with 2 sluth smoke units....now im heavy moding it..adding details that they didnt add on ..like steam pipes on the right side of the engine and re located the marker lights to stock setting.. just added mth proto 1 sound with proto coupler and now im adding fan driven smoke unit.also added leds lights and fire box and cab lights...some of the parts im using lionals S2 turbine parts..

A "proto coupler"???? You mean you aren't making this model 3RS?

well it didnt have sound..only a reverse unit..whats the differents...both mth and QSi are both the same systems..QSI makes there own system and they make MTH system..won a MTH C&NW H4 Hudson complete sound system for less then 50.00 new off of ebay..guy converted it to 2 rail..thats whats in my S2 turbine now..will try to see if i can still buy the S2 sound chip from MTH..Dont care for the whisel sound from the 2.0...sound to drokey/whippy for a S2..the only train im try to keep origanal to 3rd rail is my S1 duplex unskirted version..sound board proublems..going to send it to tin rails in az..i like QSI sound but would love to get my hads on lionals S1 sound system..