Description
Railroad Short Name: SSW
Features:
- Era: 1963 to 1965
- Series 750 to 759; built 2/63
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED-illuminated “hemisphere” walkway lights on hood ends, and at end of raised walkway duct*
- Operating front and rear LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” signal light*
- Operating front and rear Pyle-National Single Red Gyralite (“UDE Light”)*
- Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with lenses and raised gaskets**
- Cab number boards and hinged rear number indicator housings
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch boxes with footboards
- 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
- As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
- Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Handrail set with center gangway chains
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned tread plate detail with EMD early “X” style pattern
- Stepwell/walkway gussets
- 81” GP30 low short hood with ratchet handbrake and square sand fill
- Hinged battery box doors with early hinges and narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on number board housing
- GP30 cab with increased length on left (fireman’s) side and inverted cab heater vents
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- SP/SSW sun awning
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P-3 (P24R1 configuration) horn mounted on right side cab eave
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late single-panel inertial compartment
- Wire inertial air intake grills
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Standard-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan
- Early See-through dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires on top of vertical vanes
- 6-horizontal rib radiator intake grills
- See-through front and rear 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fans; 36” pan-top center radiator fan
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Square sand fill hatch on top of long hood end
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
- Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; elliptical springs; end transom detail; separate sanding lines and brackets; and separate swing hanger detail
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to second axle on right front truck sideframe
- Cab-roof mounted “tripod” bronze bell with air line
- Prime air filter (can style)
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank with vertical gauges and fuel fill in sill skirt; round gauges in fuel tank sides
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, photo etched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks, sand hatch covers and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
- Dual cube-type speakers
- EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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