You are looking at a STUNNING Lionel PENNSYLVANIA T-1 4-4-4-4 Steam engine and tender. This is a nice quality steam engine, very heavy and over 31".
Lionel’s 5511 model recreates the prototype late in its short life. Sometime after their delivery, Pennsy maintenance forces eliminated the streamlined skirting around the 5511’s cylinders and below the running boards. A supplemental headlight was also added to the front-end, requiring the relocation of the numbered Pennsylvania keystone. All these features, in addition to accurate builders’ plates, train phone antenna and other rigging on the tender deck can be found in Lionel’s first issue of this historic locomotive.
FEATURES
- All-new die-cast boiler, frame and tender
- All 8 driver wheels powered
- Scale drop coupler on pilot
- Additional front coupler supplied for double-heading
- Hand-applied metal details on boiler
- Red firebox glow
- Ashpan glows brighter with engine speed
- Additional metal detailing on tender deck
- Engineer and fireman figures in cab
- Die-cast Body
- Run in Conventional or TMCC
- Trainmaster Command Control
- Electrocouplers
- Lighting
- Headlights
- Directional Lighting
- Interior Lighting
- Miscellaneous
- Wireless Tether
- Smoke Unit
- Can / flywheel Motor
- RailSounds
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Traction Tires
NOTE that everything is great in TMCC, but the sounds are not completely working in conventional. In conventional, the bell and whistle do not work.
BOX is P-5 showing some shelfwear: creases, fade from light on one end, some rubs and indentations.
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Some History of this Locomotive
Heralded as the replacement locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s fleet of K-4 Pacifics, the T1 class resembled little else on the “Standard Railroad of the World.” From its unique 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement on a rigid frame, to the startling shark-like streamlining by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, the T1s were a new hope in the battle against diesel power.