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
Operating Mars Light
Lighted Number Boards
Factory Installed painted Fireman and Engineer Figures
Fan Driven Smoke Unit with User Controlled
On/Off
Traction Tire Equipped for Maximum Traction
Locomotive Composition: Die Cast Metal
Tender Composition: Die Cast Metal
Locomotive Length: 10.8"
Tender Length: 6.35"
Motor type: 5-Pole Can with Skewed Armature & Fly
Wheel
Couplers: (1) Kadee Compatible,
(1) Kadee
#58
Compatible Tracks: Code 70, 83, 100 Rail
Recommended Minimum Radius: 22"
"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.
Southern Pacific's engineers
created an elegant locomotive when designing the GS-4. Not only was her
appearance breathtaking, but mechanically she was stunning. These locomotives
had 80-inch drivers, boiler pressure of 300 psi, and small cylinder diameter
that provided additional speed and power from earlier designs. The GS-4's
developed 5,500HP at 55mph and were cross and counterbalanced to reach maximum
speeds of 110mph! Also, a 12-volt motor driven signal light reflector, or Mars
light, was placed above the headlight. The beam projected forward in a figure
eight to a distance of 1,400 to 3,000 feet and sideways to a distance of 750
feet. All this for the reasonable price of approximately $175,000.
4449 resides at Union Pacific's
Brooklyn Roundhouse in Portland, Oregon.
