{"product_id":"mth2038111","title":"MTH O USRA 4-6-2 Heavy Pacific Steam Locomotive Reading \u0026 Northern #425 W\/ PS3.0","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring World War I, Uncle Sam nationalized the railroads when they proved unequal to the task of moving massive amounts of men and materiel for the war effort. The agency that ran the trains was the United States Railroad Administration, or USRA, and one of its chief accomplishments was the creation of 12 steam engine designs that lasted for decades. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USRA locomotives were “the first successful standardization of American motive power” — and the only standard designs until the diesel era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the World War I period, the 4-6-2 Pacific was the favored mainline passenger engine in relatively level territory, so the USRA designs included light and heavy 4-6-2s. The heavy version, designed for trackage that allowed a heavier axle load, was similar in most major dimensions to the existing Pennsylvania K4s and Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio F-17 Pacifics. Both had been designed around 1913 and were considered powerful and fast locomotives for their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly 20 government-issue heavy Pacifics were actually built, all of them going to the Erie Railroad. But like most USRA designs, the heavy Pacific was so good that a number of railroads ordered copies after government control ended. The Erie bought 11 more, and at least three of the most successful heavy Pacifics built in the 1920s were based on the USRA design: the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio P-7d “President” class, the C\u0026amp;O F-19, and the Southern Railway Ps-4. A survivor of the latter class resides today in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., resplendent in the Southern’s famous green livery with gold striping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe USRA heavy Pacific returns to the Premier line for 2021, upgraded with wireless drawbar, steaming quillable whistle, cab-to-tender deck plate, and additional details (not all details are shown in photos). Relive the days when these high-stepping Pacifics led mainline passenger runs, or their later years when they were relegated to local passenger trains and even freight service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDid You Know?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam E. Woodard, V.P. of Engineering at Lima Locomotive Works and one of the designers on the USRA Locomotive Committee, went on to inaugurate the “Super Power” concept that guided steam locomotive design from the mid-1920s to the end of the steam era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"pane-title block-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eproduct features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-field-news-product-features field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-_custom_display\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-items\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-item even\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntricately Detailed, Die-Cast Boiler and Chassis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntricately Detailed, Die-Cast Tender Body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli 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