I'm hoping that Lionel acquired the MTH tooling for this very handsome and truly unique locomotive, and produce it with all of the great features of the Legacy system. Perhaps even a candidate for the Vision Line.
The New York Central/P&LE A2a Berkshire Locomotive. The last steam locomotives ordered by the New York Central Railroad. Built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, NY in 1948. ALCO was already changing its facilities over to diesel locomotive production at that time and could not produce the coal tenders for this locomotive, which were made by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio.
This was a freight locomotive used on the NYC subsidiary, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie (P&LE), and used to haul coal drags in the "coal country" of western Pennsylvania, extending into Ohio and West Virginia.
