Rapido 48543 HO Scale GE 44 Tonner Claremont & Concord C&C #17 DCC & Sound Roadname_Chicago Short Line there's a nicely detailed powerhouse

there's a nicely detailed powerhouse with twin smokestacks

it proved to be an effective tank hunter platform

but due to the political climate in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953

Based on a prototype built by Ford Motor Company in Dearborn

Rapido 48543 HO Scale GE 44 Tonner Claremont & Concord C&C #17 DCC & Sound Roadname_Chicago Short Line there's a nicely detailed powerhouseRapido 48543 HO Scale GE 44 Tonner Claremont & Concord C&C #17 DCC & Sound Rapido Trains is pleased to announce another all new group of HO scale General Electric 44 Ton diesel locomotives! The first run sold out immediately and these new roads are sure to do the same. Also commonly called 44 tonners, these locomotives compact design was driven by a 1937 labor agreement with the railroad unions that specified that all locomotives over 90,000 pounds