Description
Railroad Short Name: VMV
Locomotive Features:
- Era: late 1980s to early 90s
- VMV series 3123-3162 (broken), built 11/67
- Phase IIa2
- 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
- 81” high short hood
- Headlight mounted in top of high short hood
- High steel bell mounted a top of long hood
- Short and long hood top mounted walkway lights (non-operating)
- Southern style sun awning
- Front and rear full-width MU hose catch trays without footboards
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps and lifting slots
- “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 and ATS extension on fireman’s side rear battery box
- Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
- 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 separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- Sliding cab windows
- No arm rests
- Tall square corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P5 Horn (P135R24 configuration)
- Dual Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antennas mounted on top of short hood
- 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
- 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
- Standard-height 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 loop handles and four inner and two outer brackets
- Handrail set with deck mounted outer end rail stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Late deck mounted MU receptacle with field loop receptacle
- Tall “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
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, and dual “staggered” vertical fuel gauge per side
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder first axle, left 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
- Paint colors matched to Tru-Color Paint: TCP-010 Black, TCP-080 Imitation Aluminum
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operable using DC power pack
- DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
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