MTH: 20-3925-1 Jersey Central Premier 4-6-2 P47 Baldwin Pacific Steam Engine w/ ProtoSound 3.0 O Gauge At the very apex of the Roaring Twenties, just months before 1929 stock market crash, the Central Railroad of New Jersey inaugurated its twice-daily Blue Comet service between ...MTH: 20-3925-1 Jersey Central Premier 4-6-2 P47 Baldwin Pacific Steam Engine w/ ProtoSound 3.0 O Gauge At the very apex of the Roaring Twenties, just months before 1929 stock market crash, the Central Railroad of New Jersey inaugurated its twice-daily Blue Comet service between Jersey City and Atlantic City. Heading the fast, luxurious trains were the CNJs nearly-new Baldwin-built P47 Heavy Pacifics. Three locomotives painted in a beautiful blue livery with nickel trim, carrying the trains name on a bronze plate under the feed water heater, and numbered 831, 832 and 833 covered The Blue Comets fast schedule along the Jersey shoreline.
Two sister engines were assigned to lesser CNJ name trains: No. 834 in green pulled The Bullet while No. 835 in black livery hauled The Queen of the Valley.
The Blue Comet consist was painted in blue to symbolize the sea and sky of the Jersey shore, with a cream window band to represent both the shorelines pristine sand and a comet streaking through the heavens. In a departure from normal railroad practice, the cars carried the train name rather than the railroad name on their letterboards. The rolling stock consisted of rebuilt coaches and diners trailed by an open-platform brass-railed observation, with each car named for a different comet.
The Blue Comet was also the first train east of the Mississippi to be equipped with roller bearing trucks. Joshua Lionel Cowen is said to have been a frequent customer on The Blue Comet, and he certainly memorialized the train far beyond its native Jersey shores. His Standard Gauge Blue Comet is perhaps the most well-known and desired Standard Gauge toy train ever built, and its popularity continues today, long after the prototype succumbed to competition from the automobile in 1941.
Features: Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis Intricately Detailed, Die-Cast Tender Body Authentic Paint Scheme Real Tender Coal Load Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks Handpainted Engineer and Fireman Figures Painted Cab Backhead Gauges Legible Builders Plates Metal Handrails, Whiste and Bell Tender Truck Chains Metal Wheels and Axles Remote-Controlled Proto-Coupler O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting Constant Voltage LED Headlight Operating LED Firebox Glow Operating LED Marker Lights Operating LED Numberboard Lights Lighted LED Cab Interior Operating Tender LED Back-up Light Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel-Equipped Skew-Wound Motor Operating ProtoSmoke System Steaming Quillable Whistle Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments Wireless Drawbar 1:48 Scale Dimensions Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Quillable Whistle With Passenger Station Proto-Effects PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS Road Name: Jersey Central Road Number: 835 Gauge: O Gauge Power: Electric Engine Type: Steam Min Curve: O42 Dimensions: 23" x 2 5/8" x 3 11/16"