HO C&NW 4-6-2 Yellow Jacket Model Locomotive (BLI9550)

HO-scale C&NW 4-6-2 “Yellow Jacket” is a premium, highly detailed model locomotive designed for HO layouts and discerning collectors. Inspired by the real Yellow Jacket engines and their distinctive yellow-and-green livery, the model captures authentic era details across 1942, 1944, and 1952 appearances, including renumbering and two fantasy liveries for Seaboard Air Line and Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Each unit combines hand-crafted brass boiler, cab, and tender bodies with a heavy die-cast chassis for a substantial, lifelike presence on the rails.

Under the hood, Paragon4 sound and control delivers authentic operation on both DC and DCC layouts, with synchronized puffing smoke and adjustable puffing timing. A DCC decoder with Back EMF supports smooth slow-speed performance, while a five-pole can motor with a skew-wound armature provides steady pulling power. Details include separately controllable headlight, numberboard lights, and cab light, factory-installed engineer and fireman figures, and numerous finely applied components such as handrails, grab irons, ladders, piping, cab glass, whistle, brass bell, markers, numberboards, air tanks, and more. Rubber traction tires enhance grip, and an 18-inch minimum radius is recommended to ensure reliable operation and true-to-era sound for the C&NW Yellow Jacket.