Beautifully Detailed, Accurately Modeled Locomotive and Tender
Body
Authentic Design, Paint and Color Schemes
Authentic Sounds (Sound Equipped Units Only) and Prototypical
Operation
Many Separately Applied Details Including Brass Bell /
Rails
Detailed Backhead
Operating Cab-roof Vents
Constant Intensity Directional Lighting
Lighted Number Boards
Factory Installed painted Fireman and Engineer Figures
Seuthe
Smoke
Unit Ready
Traction Tire Equipped for Maximum Traction
Locomotive Composition: ABS with Die Cast Chassis
Tender Composition: ABS with Die Cast Chassis
Locomotive Length: 7.0"
Tender Length: 4.9"
Total Coupler-to-Coupler Length: 12.5"
Motor type: 5-Pole Can with Skewed Armature & Fly
Wheel
Couplers: (2) Operating Kadee Compatible
Compatible Tracks: Code 70, 83, 100 Rail
Recommended Minimum Radius: 18"
"DCC & Sound
Upgradeable" Units denoted as DCC & Sound
Upgradeable are units that are not sound equipped and function only in
DC. Modelers may choose to purchase an optional Sound &
DCC upgrade kit, specifically tailored to the prototype which will add DCC
and sound functionality. Upgrade kit works only for PCM models with PCM
motherboards.
Built by Baldwin in 1927 and named for the first
20 U.S. Presidents, the final and most popular of the Pacifics was B&O's
P7 or President's class. These uniquely painted locomotives made it
economically feasible for the B&O to handle routes that previously were
covered by the Reading and CNJ railroads.
P7 Stats:
Cylinders were 27 x 28
80 inch drivers
Boiler pressure 230 psi
Starting tractive effort was 50,000 pounds
Weight 326,000 pounds
DID YOU KNOW? B&O
P7 Pacifics were called "President Engines" because they carried the
name of a president of the United States on the side of the cab. When they were
delivered in their green and gold splendor in 1927, B&O was exactly 100
years old. Servicing the route between Washington D.C. and New York, they
maintained the original paint scheme until Roy B. White, who became the
president of B&O in 1941, ordered the color of the P7's be changed from
green to blue and the names of the presidents be removed from all locomotives
and passenger cars in the early part of his administration. This was done to
avoid the color clash between P7 locomotives and the blue-and-gray passenger
cars.
PCM will model this P7 in its original physical
configuration. P7's with physical configurations that were altered prior to
1941 were not painted blue as the blue paint and original configuration of that
particular engine number never existed. Blue and green are both correct colors
for engines with physical configurations that were altered after 1941.
