Bachmann D&RGW™ #170 - Flying Grande 4-6-0 w/Lights and Smoke (DCC and Sound Ready)

Bachmann 91801 D&RGW™ #170 - Flying Grande 4-6-0 w/Lights and Smoke (DCC and Sound Ready)

Description:
The 4-6-0 Steam Engine is now available in a DCC- and Sound-Ready version that features an advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play circuit board to accommodate the control system of your choice, including conventional DC power, NMRA/NEM DCC, and/or RC operation. Equipped with factory-installed speakers, it is ready for the addition of plug-and-play prototypical sound. (Plug-and-Play Sound Module available separately for sound-on-board performance.) It also features metal gears, a new tender, operating headlight, smoke, metal siderods, separate piping, and all metal handrails.


Features:

• Advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play electronic printed circuit board to accommodate the control system of your choice, including conventional DC power, NMRA/NEM DCC, and/or RC operation
• Powerful Pittman® precision-balanced can motor
• All-metal gearbox and gearing for superior performance at realistic speeds
• All new tender with:
•  scale rivets
• new metal trucks with reliable axle electrical pickup
• new body-mounted knuckle coupler (with both body height and truck height coupler options)
• cast metal ladder
• working rear tender light with new mount to tender
• new realistic coal load and wood-grained coal extension boards
• new cast metal step

• Fully operating Walschaerts valve gear with operating piston valves and linkage
• Electrical pickup from pilot truck, front and rear drive wheels and both tender trucks
• Optical chuff sensors, with the option of 2 or 4 steam chuffs per revolution (when user-supplied sound card is installed in plug-and-play socket)
• Factory-installed speaker with wire pigtail to allow easy installation of aftermarket sound system
• Switch behind the smoke box door allowing you to choose whether the smoke generator is turned off or controlled by the device in the advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play socket
• Easy access to switches in the tender for motor power on/off and choice of track pickup or battery-powered operation according to NMRA or Large Scale railroading practices
• Metal drivers, siderods, piston rods, valve guides, guide rods, brake pump, handrails, and piping
• Whistle and pop valve
• Bell swinger and machined brass bell with metal clapper
• Separate sanding lines
• Cab detail
• LED headlight and tender light
• Load-synchronized LEDs in firebox and ashpan for realistic fire glow
• Complete backhead detail including operating firebox door
• Engineer and fireman figures