Class E-1 4-8-4 - Sound and DCC - Paragon4(TM) Brass Hybrid -- Spokane, Portland & Seattle #701 (Postwar 1949-1956; black, silver, yellow)

This HO Scale Northern Pacific Class A-3 or Spokane, Portland & Seattle Class E-1 4-8-4 from Broadway Limited is a model of some of the most popular 4-8-4's ever built. By the 1920s the NP needed bigger passenger locomotives. With the help of the American Locomotive Company's design engineers, NP designed a new steam locomotive with a massive firebox that had a 115 square foot grate area supported by a four wheel trailing truck. It was the first locomotive with a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement. Alco delivered the first of 12 of these new locomotives in December of 1926, with the balance arriving early in 1927. Designated Class A, and assigned road numbers 2600 through 2611, they had 73" drivers, 28 x 30" cylinders, a boiler pressure of 210 psi, a tractive effort of 57,500 lbs and weighed 426,000 pounds. Later, the boiler pressure was raised to 240psi which increased the tractive effort to 65,700 pounds. These were the first of this new wheel arrangement and thus were to be the namesake, with