Lionel 6-24534
ERIE LACKAWANNA F3 A-B-A LOCO
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| WOW - Maroon Grey and Yellow F3'S were the original power for the Phoebe Snow, and the Lackawanna's paint scheme was judged 2nd best in a nationwide diesel design contest held by the AAR amongst all the railroads (The Santa Fe was the winner)The F3's were carried into the merger of the Erie and Lackawanna, and the Lackawanna Scheme was adopted by the Erie-Lackawanna, preserving this beautiful color scheme up until the days of Conrail BluesMagnetraction plus traction tires provides enormous pulling power and traction never before available in an F3Indeed, this deluxe loco has every feature that Lionel has to offer, including 2 maintenance free motors, TMCC, Odyssey, Railsounds and Crewtalk, die cast bases. frames, pilots and trucks, new superdetailed F3 bodies, opening doors, builders plates, pivoting diaphams, engineer and fireman figures Both powerd and dummy A's have fan driven smoke units, although Lackawanna Management and Miss Phoebe would flip if the highly maintained Lackawanna Units ever smoked - but in Erie Lackawanna livery they began to smoke as maintenace fell off (apologies to Erie Fans) The ABA is 39 inches long, and operates on 31 inch and larger diameter track An additional powered B is also available (6- 24538) so you can operate 2 seperate AB locos, as well as combining them into one superpowered, 4 motored ABBA. |
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