Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
NS Features:
- Phase I Body with rounded blower housing
- Long hood forward setup with high short hood
- Southern style 5-chime horns on both ends
- Long hood mounted bell
- Dual Firecracker antennas
- Timkin bearing trucks
- Hood mounted walkway lights (non-operational)
- Large EMD style plows and ditch lights on both ends
Built in 1980 for the Southern Railway, these distinct high nose long hood forward locomotives were painted into Norfolk Southern colors after the Southern / Norfolk Western merger of 1982. They retained most of the as built features other than ditch lights added in the 1990’s.
Road Number Specific Features:
#7037
- Earlier NS scheme with dashed frame stripes
#7054
- Newer NS “horse-head” logo with solid frame stripes
#7085
- Earlier NS scheme with solid frame stripes
Locomotive Features:
- Full cab interior
- Wire grab irons
- Coupler cut levers
- See-through cab windows
- Flexible rubber trainline hose
- Flexible rubber MU hoses
- Etched see-through steps
- Walkway tread
- Lift rings
- Sander lines
- Windshield wipers
- McHenry® scale knuckle couplers – Kadee compatible
- Accurately-painted and –printed paint schemes
- Fully-assembled and ready-to-run
- DCC-ready features Quick Plug™ plug-and-play technology with 21-pin NEM connector
- Scaled from prototype resources including drawings, field measurements, photographs, and more
- Fine-scale Celcon handrails for scale appearance
- Detailed fuel tank with fuel fillers, fuel gauges, & breather pipes
- Genesis driveline with 5-pole skew wound motor, precision machined flywheels, and multi-link drivetrain
- All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth & quiet operation
- All-wheel electrical pickup provides reliable current flow
- Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
- Heavy die-cast frame for greater traction and more pulling power
- Packaging securely holds model for safe storage
- Minimum radius: 18” — Recommended radius: 22”
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