Description
Railroad Short Name: NW
Features:
- Era: Early 1980s through late 1980s
- Road numbers 1773
- Norfolk & Western series 1765-1789, built 2-70, Phase IIb2
- Black with large ‘Block Lettering’ F6a NW scheme
- Additional speed recorder on front right side, third axle
- Rear radiator fan replaced with pan style
- Road numbers 1789
- Norfolk & Western series 1765-1789, built 2-70, Phase IIb2
- Black with large ‘Block Lettering’ F6a NW scheme
- Additional speed recorder on front right side, second axle
- Road numbers 1800 and 1802
- Norfolk & Western series 1790-1814, built 12-69, Phase IIb2
- Black with large ‘Block Lettering’ F6a NW scheme
- Additional speed recorder on the front right side, second axle
- Fully-assembled
- Set up to run long hood forward
- Directional LED headlights
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted above front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
- Front and rear MU hose retainer grab irons
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Late” pattern walkway treadplate
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- 81” high short hood
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab without center front windshields
- Detailed cab interior with dual control stands
- Two-Pane all weather windows on both sides of cab
- No sun awning on cab sides
- No Arm rests
- No cab vents
- Lost-wax brass Leslie RS-5T-R Horn mounted to top of short hood
- Single Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on top of short hood
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- Small ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Standard-height dust bin
- Standard-height exhaust stack
- Early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents, and “T” vent on top of roof
- “Chickenwire radiator grilles with rectangular-pattern mess screens
- Standard-height fan housings
- Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
- Short walkway duct with four short stanchions
- Walkway mounted spare coupler knuckle basket
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper loop extensions welded to ends of bar
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Late deck-mounted MU receptacle with attached permanent MU cable and dummy receptacle on deck
- Short “zig-zag” pilot face
- Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- High bell mounted a top of short hood
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauge, and round dial fuel gauge per side
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder second axle, left side
- ACI label placards included in polybag for optional installation by the modeler
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 20 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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