CARY Diecast Metal E7 Shell - LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE ~ Custom Painted

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada, A helpful customer has pointed out that EMD E7 locomotives have square portholes on the engine while E9 engines were built with round portholes - This E7 Locomotive is a passenger engine as it has the steam generator for the passenger cars in the back end of the unit with it's exhaust port up through the roof of the engine just like General Motor's Electro-Motive Division's F units.While this engine looks like it would have the same 567 engine as EMD's FT diesel the E7A would have had two 12 Cylinder 567 diesel engines while the FTA had a single 16 cylinder 567 diesel engine, the similarity of the roof vents and fans between the FT's iconic 4 exhaust stacks and separate pairs of belt driven radiator cooling fans which was simply doubled up on the E7A Locomotive. To See all of our Listings visit: Ika's Train Store The E7 was a 2,000-horsepower, A1A-A1A passenger train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. 428 cab versions, or E7As, were built from February 1945 to April 1949; 82 booster E7Bs were built from March 1945 to July 1948. The 2,000 hp came from two 12 cylinder model 567A engines. Each engine drove its own electrical generator to power the two traction motors on one truck. The E7 was the eighth model in a line of passenger diesels of similar design known as EMD E-units, and it became the best selling E model upon its introduction.*The City of San Francisco was just one train in the Union Pacific’s premier fleet of passenger trains. The City of S.F. was one of the first in the fleet and became acclaimed for its impeccable service. Overall, the Union Pacific hosted an entire array of other plush City trains including the City of Portland, City of Denver, City of Salina, City of St. Louis, City of Los Angeles, and City of Las Vegas. The City of S.F. began in the mid-1930s as a semi-articulated trainset and operated a fast schedule between the port city and Chicago even though it took three different railroads to complete the streamliner's transcontinental journey.Unfortunately, with the startup of Amtrak none of the City trains were retained. Today, the City fleet can still be witnessed, in a manner of speaking, as the UP’s official business train is not only decorated in the Cities’ classic livery but also includes the original equipment from them, right down to the two E9As and E9Bs that power it! *** Wikipedia** American-RailsAt its champagne-infused inauguration on Jan. 2, 1938, Train No. 101, the “City of San Francisco,” was deemed the “world’s most superlative train.” The sleek streamliner consisted of deluxe sleepers, coaches and dining cars loaded with amenities, with motive power supplied by six 900-horsepower engines. A technological marvel in engineering, she was proclaimed the “largest, fastest, most beautiful, powerful, and luxurious streamliner ever designed.” The “City of San Francisco” represented state-of-the-art engineering for 1938, but a series of dramatic events would prove the limitations of man and machine against nature or sabotage.Among the superlatives unique to the “City of San Francisco” were its six giant engines, the most powerful diesel locomotive engines ever built. The motors were 20-feet long and weighed 18,000 lbs.; together they generated 5,400 horsepower as compared to 2,400 in Southern Pacific Railroad’s smaller passenger trains. The power units that propelled this behemoth made up the longest locomotive in the world at 210 feet. The new streamliner pulled 17 coaches instead of the normal 11, and was still capable of speeds in excess of 100 mph. The elegant streamliner took transcontinental travel to a whole new level in speed and comfort, making five round trips each month between Oakland and Chicago, hurtling the distance between the Windy City and Golden Gate in only 39½ hours. In its first run, the hi-tech train cut 19 hours from the fastest previous time on the route. Like the pioneers and emigrant wagon trains before it, the transcontinental railroad followed the Humboldt River as it meanders west across Northern Nevada. But, instead of a wooden farm wagon hitched behind plodding oxen, the “City of San Francisco” raced over the high desert at speeds averaging between 75 and 110 mph. On Saturday evening, Aug. 12, 1939, the setting sun glinted off the streamliner’s silver metallic skin as it streaked across the Nevada desert. Residents in Northern Nevada were in the middle of a sweltering heat wave, but passengers aboard the air-conditioned train took no notice as they enjoyed dinner, cocktails or cards. Chief Engineer Ed Hecox, one of SP’s top locomotive engineers, confidently manned the throttle of this ultra-modern behemoth, a virtual luxury hotel on rails.Engineer Hecox was at the throttle when his train derailed at 70 mph just east of Harney, Nev., at 9:33 p.m. The forward locomotives slid off the steel rails, barreled across a bridge over the Humboldt River, and then plowed through the wooden track ties and rock ballast before coming to a stop upright. Hecox escaped unscathed because momentum had forced the forward power units over the bridge safely. He was among the lucky few to survive the accident unhurt. In the desert darkness, much of the train was a tangled mess of crushed and twisted metal. Derailed and out of control, the luxury coaches had snapped their connections with the engines and slammed into the old iron bridge. Five cars were destroyed: coffee shop/kitchen car Presidio, diner Mission Dolores, dormitory club Embarcadero, Pullman sleeper/drawing room Twin Peaks and the Pullman sleeper Chinatown. The violent destruction lasted less than a minute, but the worst train wreck in Nevada history killed 24 passengers and crewmembers, and injured 121 others. Only 31 escaped unhurt. ****** thetahoeweekly Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. 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Price: 42.03 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-08-25T20:51:35.000Z

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