Description
Railroad Short Name: EL
Locomotive Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
- Printed and LED-lighted number boards
- Tall Western-style EMD plow on front; full-width MU catch tray with skidplate on rear
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- 81” low short hood without handbrake
- Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- Sliding cab windows
- Standard EMD arm rests
- Tall square corner clear wind wings with mirrors at the bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades mounted on long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn on low-profile bracket above engineer’s front windshield
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood details
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- Small ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard-height dust bin
- Low profile exhaust stack
- Early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents, and “T” vent on top of roof
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
- “Chickenwire” radiator intake grilles with diamond-pattern mesh screens
- Low-profile fan housings
- Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
- Short walkway duct with four short stanchions
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- “Modified” 3-Hose MU hose clusters (4th hose from each group removed)
- Late deck-mounted MU receptacle
- Short “zig-zag” pilot face
- Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler and vertical 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, right side
- Factory-applied detail parts: 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
- Directional LED 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”
DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operable using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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