Bachmann 51009 HO Scale North Pole & Southern 4-4-0 w/ Wood Load #1 (Analog DC)

Bachmann HO scale 4-4-0 American finished for the North Pole & Southern, road number 1, with a wood load in the tender. Bright red with green and gold trim, a green diamond stack and cab roof, the cab lettered St. Nicholas and the tender NORTH POLE & SOUTHERN in gold. It runs on DC out of the box with a factory-installed 21-pin socket for the decoder of your choice; no decoder or sound is included.

• Analog DC operation with a factory-installed NMRA 21-pin decoder socket
• Precision motor with die-cast chassis and completely hidden drivetrain
• Operating warm-glowing LED headlight
• Separately applied metal handrails and sand lines
• Detailed cab interior with clear windows
• Metal side rods and die-cast finescale spoked drivers
• Blackened metal RP25 wheels, E-Z Mate Mark II couplers front and rear
• 7.5 inches long; best on 15 inch radius or better

The North Pole & Southern is Bachmann's own Christmas railroad, a fantasy road it has used across scales for years. The 4-4-0 American is a genuine locomotive type, but this paint scheme and road name are not a prototype livery - no such railroad existed. Note also that Bachmann's product page for this item ends with a sentence about the Central Pacific Jupiter that belongs to a different model. Country of manufacture is inferred as China.