AHM 5082-C AT&SF 0-8-0 Switcher Locomotive #102

Over the years, most of the historic model railroad manufacturers produced locos with mysterious road numbers and/or questionable prototypical correctness. Besides causing us to waste a lot of time on research verifying this subterfuge, we can only assume their motivation to be strictly economic. Plastic injection molds and metal castings are expensive. To recover this cost AND to offer their products at an affordable cost, manufacturers often used the prototype tooling to also produce non-prototypical products. To make an already long story shorter, such is the case with our AHM 5082C. First, the AT&SF, to our knowledge, never had an 0-8-0 #102 and, in fact, Santa Fe bought its last new switcher in 1913. "Thereafter it converted Consolidations and Moguls into switchers, occasionally using boilers from Atlantics. None of the resulting engines could be considered modern: few of the 0-8-0s and none of the 0-6-0s, for instance, had outside valve gear. Santa Fe chose to put its money into locomotives that made money--long haul, over-the-road power--and either build switchers out of materials on hand or use locomotives that had been superseded in mainline service." (From "Guide to North American Steam Locomotives compiled by George H. Drury.) This all being said, this duplicate (w/o the trailing truck booster) of the great Rivarossi Indiana Harbor Belt 0-8-0 Switchers is still a great looking and great running locomotive

• Upgraded C-9 Mint Condition with Mint Original Box.
• MRRHQ Locomotive Works restored, serviced, tested and certified
• Sealed and stored in an air-tight custom fitted heavy zip lock bag.
• Operating Headlamp upgraded w/MRRHQ Custom always-on LED.
• Boiler and tender body of pressure-cast Zamac high impact plastic.
• Steel hand rails, coupler release bars, rods and fittings.
• Tender Truck Booster Drive.
• Powerful Can Motor.
• Metal gears assembled on knurled axles.
• Slippage-free oversize knurled drive wheel axles.
• Authentic hex-head screws for spacer-assembled side rods.
• Easy rolling needle point truck axles of cadmium plated steel.
• Metal locomotive and tender frames.
• Upgraded with working rear all-metal Kadee Knuckle Coupler.
• Optional DCC Upgrades Available:
  • SOUNDTRAXX 852204 Standard DCC Decoder Installed
  • SOUNDTRAXX 852204 Standard DCC Decoder w/810160 Keep Alive Installed
  • SOUNDTRAXX TSU1100 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder Installed
  • SOUNDTRAXX TSU1100 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder w/810160 Keep Alive Installed
• Production Date Unknown .

Dimensions: Loco: 6 1/8" L x 2" T x 1 3/8" W Tender 4 1/2" L x 1 7/8" T x 1 3/8" W