Broadway Limited E-1 4-8-4 SP & S #702 Early Postwar, Paragon3 Sound/DC/DCC, Smoke, HO Scale

Broadway Limited E-1 4-8-4 SP & S #702 Early Postwar, Paragon3 Sound/DC/DCC, Smoke, HO Scale

After years of running second-hand equipment, the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S) was allowed by its parent companies, Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway, to purchase its first new locomotives. These included three Northern E-1 class locomotives (700, 701 and 702) for passenger service. Nearly identical to the class "A-3" Northerns built for Northern Pacific Railway, burning oil instead of coal. Like the A-3s, these heavy "Northerns" had 77 drivers, 28 x 31 cylinders, a boiler pressure of 260 psi, a tractive effort of 69,800 lbs and a weight of 491,800 pounds. There are no surviving Northern Pacific "Northerns". By the 1920s the Northern Pacific Railroad needed bigger passenger locomotives. With the help of the American Locomotive Company's design engineers, NP designed a new locomotive with a massive firebox that had a 115 square foot grate area supported by a four wheel trailing truck. It was the first locomotive with a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement. ALCO delivered the first of 12 of these new locomotives in December of 1926, with the balance arriving early in 1927. In 1938, eight