Description
Railroad Short Name: SLSF
- Era: 1970s – early 1980’s
- Series 296 to 299 built 6/79
- Road numbers 296 and 297
- Extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe
- Road numbers 298 and 299
- Non-dynamic brake housing without batten strip
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED front and rear tricolor flush-mounted with raised gasket class lights**
- Operating LED Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch baskets
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear late small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Standard front and rear drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and lowered right-hand side round vent.
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash 2 cab with welded side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on left side of cab
- 3-panel all-weather window mounted on right cab side
- Standard EMD sunshade and long sunshade track on right side only
- Lost wax brass cast Leslie Supertyfon RS-3L-R horn on number board housing
- “Whip” antenna mounted to center of cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of ca
- Late welded ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Dual flush exhaust stacks
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Square PAF (Paper Air Filter) housing
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Angled radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details, triple clasp brake shoes, and third brake cylinder
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and 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”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Non-Turbo EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPak” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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