HO C&NW 4-6-2 Yellow Jacket #1620 1944 Appearance Model (BLI9546)

HO-scale C&NW 4-6-2 Yellow Jacket locomotive, road number 1620, in a 1944 appearance, is a premium Broadway Limited Imports model designed for HO-scale railroad layouts. It combines authentic styling with Paragon4 Sound and Control, synchronized puffing smoke with chuff sounds, and a DCC decoder with Back EMF for smooth slow-speed operation on both DC and DCC layouts.

The model is built with handcrafted brass boiler, cab, and tender bodies on a heavy die-cast chassis, powered by a 5-pole can motor with a skew-wound armature for strong pulling power and precise slow speed. It features rubber traction tires, separately controllable headlight, numberboard lights, and cab light, plus factory-installed engineer and fireman figures and a wealth of fine detailing such as handrails, ladders, piping, cab glass, a brass bell and whistle. Prototypical appearances for 1942, 1944, and 1952 are represented, with two fantasy schemes (Seaboard Air Line and Chicago and Eastern Illinois) also offered. It supports authentic C&NW Yellow Jacket sounds and recommends an 18-inch minimum radius for smooth operation.