Name: USATC S160 No.1604
SKU: 926001-Base
Availability: InStock

USATC S160 No.1604

Part of the USATC S160 collection

£269.95 – £379.95

Livery: Black (satin) with U.S.A. on tender.

Manufacturer: ALCO – Schenectady – 1942

Shed allocation and region: Newport Ebbw Junction (NPT) – GWR

Date of model: December 1942

Tooling variations:

GWR lamp irons
Straight strap smokebox door fitted with GWR lamp iron
Westinghouse air pump
Pipework mounted behind chimney
Straight running boards
Right hand drive with pole reverser and original pattern firehole door
Standard wartime tender
Boiler-mounted ejector pipe fitted

To watch our video illustrating these tooling variations, click on the play button in the image gallery.

SKU	926001 : DCC Ready 926501 : DCC Sound Fitted
Release Date	Q4 2025
Scale	OO Gauge
Type	Locomotives
Company	USATC
Era	Grouping Post 36 (1937 - 1947)
Theme	Mainline

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Description

No.1604 had the honour of being the first S160 to be displayed publicly when on the 11^th December 1942 it was exhibited at Paddington station and officially handed over to Lord Leathers (Minister of War Transport) by Colonel N.A. Ryan (Chief of Transportation, US Army). Overall, the GWR had the largest number of S160 locomotives on loan, with a total of 174 locomotives operating across the GWR network. No.1604 was allocated to the Newport Ebbw Junction prior to transfer to the continent and use by the SNCB before scrapping in 1946/7.

Each model features factory-fitted speakers in the smokebox and tender, dual LED firebox glow with dynamic fire draw effect, a large twin flywheel motor, detachable loco and tender connections, pickups on all driving and tender wheels alongside a tender mounted 21-pin DCC decoder socket. DCC Sound versions will be fitted with an ESU LokSound5 decoder and our own sound project.