Mantua 312-140 Southern 2-8-2 Mikado Locomotive HO Scale
SKU MN312-140
$119.99
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Mantua 312-14 Southern 2-8-2 Mikado Locomotive
Now arriving on Track 1 at MRRHQ is some serious "Heavy Metal" from Mantua. Weighing in at 2 pounds, our 2-8-0 Consolidations, 2-8-2 Mikados and 4-6-2 Pacifics feature heavy cast boilers for outstanding traction, smooth running valve gear and 12 wheel long haul tenders. For this beast we even took it one step further by adding a feature that wasn't available on any of these heavies; a WORKING FRONT KNUCKLE COUPLER!
Fully restored, reliable and powerful with plenty of space to add DCC or DCC/Sound, the remarkable Mantua Mikados are a must have for any working railroad or collection.
"Mikado" is the name generally assigned to the steam locomotives of the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. The general, and reasonable assumption, is that the name "Mikado" stems from the early construction of locomotives of this wheel arrangement by Baldwin in 1893. These locomotives were of the three foot six inch gauge, and were constructed for Nihon Tetsudo (Japan Railways), a private railway at the time.
The 2-8-2 saw great success in the United States, mostly as a freight locomotive. It largely replaced the 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type as the heavy freight locomotive of choice in the second decade of the 20th century. Pulling power was similar to the best 2-8-0s, but a developing requirement for higher speed freight trains drove the shift to the 2-8-2. As locomotives continued to get larger, and faster, the Mikado was in turn pushed from the top-flight trains by larger freight locomotive configurations such as 2-10-2, 2-8-4, 2-10-4 and gigantic articulated locomotives. The "Mike" remained the most common road freight locomotive with most railroads until the end of steam in the 1950's. In excess of 14,000 of this type were built for North American service, which comprised approximately one-fifth of all locomotives in service at the time. Almost all North American railroads rostered the 2-8-2.
FEATURES:
C-9 Mint Condition with Excellent Original Box.
MRRHQ Locomotive Works serviced, tested and certified.
No evidence of run time.
Sealed and stored in an air-tight custom fitted heavy zip lock bag.
Operating Headlamp.
MRRHQ Custom Directional Tender Lighting.
"Long Haul" tender body of pressure-cast Zamac high impact plastic.
Steel hand rails, rods and fittings.
Brass Bell and tender pick-up wheels.
Powerful Pittman style 5-pole motor.
Smooth, quiet nylon gears assembled on knurled axles.
Slippage-free oversize knurled drive wheel axles.
Authentic brass hex-head screws for spacer-assembled side rods.
Easy rolling needle point truck axles of cadmium plated steel.
Heavy cast metal locomotive body, tender frame and 6-wheel tender trucks.
Upgraded with working FRONT AND REAR Knuckle Couplers.
Optional Upgrades Available:
TCS MC2-KAC Standard DCC Decoder Installed
TCS MC2-KAC Standard DCC Decoder w/KA4 Keep Alive Installed
TCS WOWSound 101 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder Installed.
TCS WOWSound 101KA Digital DCC/Sound Decoder w/KeepAlive Installed.
MRRHQ Custom Directional Back Up Light Installed.
Mantua Catalog 1982-83.
Assembled loco and tender nearly 1' long weighing in at over 2 lbs.
HO Scale 1:87
Made in U. S. A.
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