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This Chesapeake & Ohio Allegheny, including tenders is $14 US for standard version. Detailed model for TS2009, TS2010 and TS12, but will run fine from TRS2004 onwards. It is available in other Railroads such as Great Northern, Milwaukee Road. Norfolk & Western, Northern Pacific, Rio Grande, Western Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Virginian, Nickel Plate.
The 'Allegheny' name refers to the C&O locomotives job of hauling heavy coal trains up and down the Allegheny Mountains. Built between 1911 and 1949, these articulated Mallet types were very successful, with some 80 produced, initially the USRA and later the C&O H6 Class were the last loco to be built by Baldwin in the US. They typically used in pairs, hauled 100 coal cars, each 170000 pounds in weight. They were retired in 1957, 2 survived in preservation at National Railway Historical Society and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum. Total weight 450,000 pounds.
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Allegheny 2-6-6-2 Loco