Description
Automatic Bumper Reverse Mechanism (ABRM)
T his car is designed for use with any LionChief™ system layout
The feature quad-door boxcar
providing freight and coal services and carrying everything from domestic and international freight to orange juice
MTH 20-20159-1 NYC FT ABA Diesel Engine Set w/Proto Sound 2.0 #1600/1601/2400 ProductID_11441061 Automatic Bumper Reverse Mechanism (ABRM)The EMD built FT freight diesel was born in November 1939 in the La Grange, IL, General Motors plant. Number 103, the four unit FT demonstrator, didn't take any baby steps. It immediately started an 11 month, 35 state tour, logging 83,764 miles on 20 Class I railroads. Wherever it went, the FT beat the railroads' best steam engines at every task. By the end of the tour, steam was, for all practical purposes, dead. As famed Trains magazine editor David