I ordered this engine in July, 2020!
HAH: and my daughter says I have no 'patience'!
Milwaukee E-78 'Little Joe' electric.
An MTH product. All metal superstructure. Remote operating pantographs (very cool).
Mike the owner of MTH retired and some 'dies' have been sold but they are still producing products.
MTH makes very 'high quality' products.
Videos:
Yard test:
Pantographs can be set up to 'automatically' go 'up and down' depending on direction as seen in the videos.
'Little Joe'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNA0kZqzHg
'Little Joe' and the Bi-polar.
Glad both run at the same speed; probably the same 'drive mechanism'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4bx6P-WN4
Nice foam interior.
Snow plows.
All 'drivers' powered which I 'oiled'.
Easy 'top' access hatch.
Magnetic cover.
Besides headlight, class lights and number boards are lighted.
Interior with crew.
Bi-polar from MTH that I purchased a few years 'ago'.
I, also, have 2 other bi-polars made by Custom Brass models in 1973.
The one on the right I painted, re-motored and added a decoder and lights.
I would not have bought these if I had known about the MTH engines.
The Yellow bi-polar doesn't run at the same speed as the MTH's so they run separately.
programming track.
Conifers were on 'sale' so I bought 5 more bags!
