MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS

No other passenger engine of the diesel era has garnered the attention or affection of railfans like EMD's E-Series has. In the middle of the Great Depression, General Motors asked its Detroit stylists to design a sleek streamlined engine to head up consists of the lightweight passenger cars that had become fashionable. And because diesels did not have the pulling power of steam engines, these new units needed to be equipped to run in multi-unit lash-ups when more horsepower was needed to pull a long train. There were six variations of the E-unit (the EA and E-1 through -5), none produced in large numbers, before EMD settled on a standardized passenger unit and began to produce the E-6 before the U.S. entered World War II. EMD built 92 E-6 A-units and 26 matching B-units before the war effort arrested production of all passenger diesels in 1942. When the war ended, EMD resumed production of the E-Series with the E-7, but it was the E-6 that established the standard for streamlined passenger locomotives. Now you can enjoy the beauty and glamour of these seminal streamliners in the colorful markings of the New York Central, Ilinois Central, Seaboard and Union Pacific City of Los Angeles railroads. These Premier engines will be as eye-catching at the head of your varnish as the originals were more than a half century ago. Did You Know? Because the prime mover of an E-unit diesel could be changed easily, these locomotives were given new engines throughout their service years.