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Atlas 52025: Fairbanks-Morse H15-44 Road Switcher, Rio Grande #151, Decoder Ready. !! NEW !!

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List Price: AU$ 157.58
Price: AU$ 95.00
63.33 USD 85.50 CAD
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This model represents the “phase I” body style of both the H15-44 and H16-44 that was produced between 1947 and 1952.
Features:
• Bi-directional red and green LED classification lights
• Scale Speed™ motor
• Factory-equipped with AccuMate® knuckle couplers
• Painted safety rails
• Blackened metal wheels
• Golden-white LED headlights
This is a really nice and unusual locomotive. It is brand new and never run or even removed from its box other than for photographs. It is in its original new "Level 1 Quality" condition. There are no cracks in the box.
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Product ID 0827
Manufacturer Atlas
  ISBN 52025
Date Added
06/23/2024
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In the late 1940s, the design team at Fairbanks-Morse (FM) set out to develop an 8-cylinder 1,500-horsepower all-purpose road switcher using their opposed-piston diesel engine design. By September 1947 FM had produced the first H15-44 locomotive in the form of Demonstrator “FM 1500”. The hood-unit style body included distinctive features such as slightly sloped ends, rounded corners, oval cab-side windows and a raised, rounded headlight base on each end.
The first purchaser of the H15-44 was Monon, who quickly bought both the demonstrator and the second unit built in December 1947. Three units were then built for Rio Grande before additional demonstrators were produced later in 1948. Before production ended in mid-1949, a total of 35 units had been built, with Jersey Central owning the most units (14 total).
By 1950 other builders had increased the horsepower of their competing road switchers, and FM responded with the 8-cylinder 1,600-horsepower H16-44 model. The earliest units were externally very similar to the previous H15-44. MKT 1591 was initially ordered as an H15-44, but was upgraded to 1,600hp during production.
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Atlas 52025: Fairbanks-Morse H15-44 Road Switcher Rio Grande #151 Decoder Ready.