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Broadway Limited Imports HO Scale PRR S1

Broadway Limited HO PRR S1 #6100

PRR S1 #6100: The Big Engine, in Stock

The Pennsylvania built one S1, and only one. Altoona finished it in December 1938. At just over 140 feet with its tender, it was the longest reciprocating steam locomotive ever built, wrapped in a Raymond Loewy shell. At the 1939 New York World's Fair it ran under steam on a roller platform at 60 mph. Then it went to work, hauling the Broadway Limited and the Trail Blazer between Crestline and Chicago on 84-inch drivers. It was scrapped in 1949. This is as close as anyone gets now.

Pick your S1

#6100: as it ran on the Fort Wayne Division
1939 World's Fair appearance: as it was shown in New York
Tuscan Red: a what-if in Pennsy's passenger-car color
Unlettered: letter it your way

Paragon4 versions have sound, DC/DCC and smoke. DCC-Ready versions run on DC out of the box. Brass boiler, cab and tender on a die-cast chassis. 19.5 inches long. Needs 24-inch curves (18-inch with the diaphragm removed).

Ways to run the S1

Fort Wayne Division: put #6100 on the point of your PRR passenger cars and run the Broadway Limited or the Trail Blazer.
Layout and shelf: #6100 with sound on the layout, the World's Fair version on the shelf above it.
The what-if train: the Tuscan Red S1 matched to Tuscan Red passenger cars, the way Pennsy might have done it.
Your own road: the unlettered S1 takes whatever name and number your railroad needs.
All four: every S1 scheme with Paragon4 sound, $2,889.96.