The 4-6-0 Steam Engine is now available in a DCC- and Sound-Ready version that features an advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play circuit board to accommodate the control system of your choice, including conventional DC power, NMRA/NEM DCC, and/or RC operation. Equipped with factory-installed speakers, it is ready for the addition of plug-and-play prototypical sound. (Plug-and-Play Sound Module available separately for sound-on-board performance.) It also features metal gears, a new tender, operating headlight, smoke, metal siderods, separate piping, and all metal handrails.

Advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play electronic printed circuit board to accommodate the control system of your choice, including conventional DC power, NMRA/NEM DCC, and/or RC operation
Powerful Pittman® precision-balanced can motor
All-metal gearbox and gearing for superior performance at realistic speeds
All new tender with:

scale rivets
new metal trucks with reliable axle electrical pickup
new body-mounted knuckle coupler (with both body height and truck height coupler options)
cast metal ladder
working rear tender light with new mount to tender
new realistic coal load and wood-grained coal extension boards
new cast metal step

Fully operating Walschaerts valve gear with operating piston valves and linkage
Electrical pickup from pilot truck, front and rear drive wheels and both tender trucks
Optical chuff sensors, with the option of 2 or 4 steam chuffs per revolution (when user-supplied sound card is installed in plug-and-play socket)
Factory-installed speaker with wire pigtail to allow easy installation of aftermarket sound system
Switch behind the smoke box door allowing you to choose whether the smoke generator is turned off or controlled by the device in the advanced nonproprietary plug-and-play socket
Easy access to switches in the tender for motor power on/off and choice of track pickup or battery-powered operation according to NMRA or Large Scale railroading practices
Metal drivers, siderods, piston rods, valve guides, guide rods, brake pump, handrails, and piping
Whistle and pop valve
Bell swinger and machined brass bell with metal clapper
Separate sanding lines
Cab detail
LED headlight and tender light
Load-synchronized LEDs in firebox and ashpan for realistic fire glow
Complete backhead detail including operating firebox door
Engineer and fireman figures