Description
The H10 was the last and largest in a line of Pennsy Consolidations that stretched back to 1875. Nearly 500 H10’s were constructed by Alco, Baldwin, and Lima and the railroad’s own shops, represented Pennsy’s premier fast freight power in the era just before World War I. With a good engine crew, an H10 could hustle about 50 cars along level track, or considerably more cars in drag service hauling coal or iron ore.
When the H10 engines were constructed, the Pennsy was still divided into Lines West – all of its affiliated railroads west of Pittsburgh – and Lines East. The H10s was strictly a Lines West phenomenon, built from a standard boiler common to the H8, H9, and H10 classes, but possessing the largest cylinders of any Pennsy “Consol.” When a 1920 reorganization abolished the division between Lines East and West, the railroad owned over three thousand 2-8-0’s, a majority of them having a common boiler design. It was a measure of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s conservative management that in the early 1920s, its entire front line freight fleet consisted of a wheel arrangement deemed obsolete by other railroads. By the mid- and late-1920s, however, the H10s and their older siblings were pushed into secondary and branch line service by the arrival of larger, more modern power: Mikados, Decapods, and Mountains. Many Consolidations sat out the Depression years in storage, until recalled to service by the crush of World War II traffic. From the war years though the end of steam, H10’s could be found all over the Pennsy, the Long Island Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Line in switching, work train, branch line, and occasionally main line service.
The H10 debuts in the M.T.H. HO lineup in 2013, featuring the level of detail you’ve come to expect in an M.T.H. HO steamer. Virtually all piping and boiler appliances are separate, added-on parts. Rods and valve gear have a prototypically darkened, grimy appearance, and the ProtoSound 3.0 sound and control system features an accurate Pennsy whistle. If you model any period from the Woodrow Wilson era to the Eisenhower years, there’s an appropriate chore on your railroad for this rugged, muscular-looking steamer.
Did You Know? H10s No. 7688 was preserved by the Pennsy as part of its historical collection in Northumberland, PA. It resides today in the main exhibition hall of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania along with two earlier Consolidations: H3 No. 1187 (which has also appeared as a Premier line model) and an H6sb.
Features:
Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis
Die-Cast Tender Body
Authentic Paint Scheme
Real Tender Coal Load
Die-Cast Locomotive Trucks
Metal Handrails and Decorative Bell
Decorative Metal Whistle
RP25 Metal Wheels
Interchangeable RP25 Metal Drive Wheels w/o Traction Tires
Sprung Drivers
Operating Kadee Compatible Remote Controlled Proto-Coupler
(2) #158 Scale Kadee Whisker Couplers
Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
Constant Voltage Headlight
Operating Numberboard Lights
Lighted Cab Interior
Operating Tender Back-up Light
Operating Marker Lights
Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel Equipped Skew-Wound Motor
Synchronized Puffing ProtoSmoke? System
Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
Wireless Drawbar
1:87 Scale Proportions
Operates On Code 70, 83 and 100 Track
Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotives can be controlled in command mode with any DCC compliant command control system. While the user won’t have access to all of the incredible features of Proto-Sound 3.0, independent control over the locomotive is possible. This means you can continue to use your existing DCC controller to independently control your other DCC equipped locomotives in addition to your Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive on the same track at the same time.
When using a DCC controller, the following Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive features are accessible:
F0 Head/Tail light
F1 Bell
F2 Horn
F3 Start-up/Shut-down
F4 PFA
F5 Lights (except head/tail)
F6 Master Volume
F7 Front Coupler
F8 Rear Coupler
F9 Forward Signal
F10 Reverse Signal
F11 Grade Crossing
F12 Smoke On/Off
F13 Smoke Volume
F14 Idle Sequence 3
F15 Idle Sequence 2
F16 Idle Sequence 1
F17 Extended Start-up
F18 Extended Shut-down
F19 Labor Chuff
F20 Drift Chuff
F21 One Shot Doppler
F22 Coupler Slack
F23 Coupler Close
F24 Single Horn Blast
F25 Engine Sounds
F26 Brake Sounds
F27 Cab Chatter
F28 Feature Reset
Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Quillable Whistle With Passenger Station Proto-Effects Quillable Whistle w/Freight Yard Proto-Effects
Unit Measures:9 1/16? x 1 1/2? x 2?
Operates On 18″ Radius Curves