Ho Usra 0-8-0
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PROTO FASTFACTS™ HO USRA 0-8-0 • New Roadnames & Numbers In Service: 1918-1950s November Delivery • Sound & DCC or Standard DC Versions Sound can be operated with standard DC power pack as well $349.98 w/Sound & DCC $249.98 Standard DC as DCC controllers. Sound features include: Dual Steam Variants: Numerous changes made to Engine Sounds, Whistle, Bell, Squealing Brakes, Doppler tenders and appliances after end of Effect, Air Let Off (in neutral), generator whine with lights on, and Trailer, which mutes whistle and bell for double-heading. USRA control in 1920; copies built Includes QSI Sound Reference Manual. through early 1950s. • Loco & Tender Electrical Pickup Primary Assignments: Yard switching • Improved Tractive Effort-Now With Traction Tires and transfer service, also used as • Weighted for Maximum Tractive Effort-Pulls industrial switchers. 60 or More Cars • Nickel-Silver Plated RP-25 Wheels By 1917, the arrival of larger and much • Operating Cab Windows and Meticulously heavier freight cars had pushed most Detailed Cab Interior 0-6-0 designs to their limits. Realizing • Tender Coal Bunker Style as Appropriate to Road that railroads needed more powerful • Slow Speed Under 3 Scale Miles Per Hour switchers, the United States Railway Administration developed plans for an • 10-Page History Booklet & Certificate of Quality all-new 0-8-0. Up-to-date in all respects, Boston & Maine these big switchers were the equals in 920-60100 #612 with Sound & DCC power of many road freight locomotives 920-60101 #618 with Sound & DCC 920-67100 #630 Standard DC from just a few years earlier. The USRA Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 0-8-0 was well liked by railroads that 920-60102 #540 with Sound & DCC received it and 175 were completed 920-60103 #544 with Sound & DCC before government control ended in 920-67102 #547 Standard DC 1920. More success came in later years, Nickel Plate Road as 35 different roads eventually copied 920-60104 #206 with Sound & DCC the design. In fact, the last new steam 920-60105 #207 with Sound & DCC 920-67104 #205 Standard DC locos built in the U.S. were a series of Northern Pacific 0-8-0s, constructed by the N&W in 920-60106 #1170 with Sound & DCC 1951-53 that followed the general 920-60107 #1171 with Sound & DCC outline of the decades-old USRA design. 920-67106 #1172 Standard DC Pere Marquette* 920-60108 #1401 with Sound & DCC Can’t find a hobby shop near you? 920-60109 #1406 with Sound & DCC Call 1-800-4TRAINS (1-800-487-2467) 920-67108 #1410 Standard DC or visit walthers.com Painted, Unlettered Delivery date shown was accurate at press time, for updates visit walthers.com. 920-60110 with Sound & DCC Preproduction model shown, details and colors may vary. ©2007 Wm. K. Walthers, Inc. *CSX proprietary marks used by permission of CSX Transportation, Inc. 920-67110 Standard DC.