Scale Trains HO Museum Quality SD45X Demonstrator “EMD Version” w/ DCC & Sound

Description

Railroad Short Name: EMDX

Features:

• Era: Early 1970s
• EMD 5740, built 6/1970
• Fully-assembled
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
• LED-illuminated tricolor flush-mounted front class lights with raised gaskets**
• LED-illuminated cab interior and control stand lighting*
• LED-illuminated Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• “Footboard” style pilot plow, front
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
• Full-width grab iron above uncoupling lever on front pilot face
• Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle on front, and pilot face mounted multiple unit receptacle on rear
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps on front, and Tunnel Motor-style rear “ladder” steps
• Front early small deck extension, and full-width anticlimber on rear
• End handrails with pilot face mounted outer and deck-mounted inner stanchions on front, and Tunnel Motor-style rear full-width anticlimber deck-mounted stanchions
• Front standard drop step
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood (81” with 7” extension ahead of cab) with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard, right side
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
• Early cab sub-base doors (tab-style hinges)
• Standard dual sealed-beam headlight in number board housing
• Early “Dash-2”-style cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels, no armrests, long rear roof overhang, front cab heater/blower extension (right side), and L-shaped front engineer’s window
• Angled vent housing towards front of cab roof, left side
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab side windows
• No mirrors
• No sunshades or sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3L-R horn with low-profile manifold mounted on number board housing
• “Whip” antenna base mounted to right rear of cab roof
• Standard SD45X long hood with accurate door and latch details
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• SD45X-style wide turbo exhaust stack
• Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brake housing with large “shoebox” vent at rear
• See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housings with 9-blade fan and hub detail visible inside
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail behind the intake vanes
• FARR Air-brand radiator intake grills
• Four see-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with 9-blade fan and hub detail visible inside
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Radiator core water spray system pipe between #2 and #3 radiator fans
• Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
• Early Rockwell-cast (“wreath” logo) HT-C truck frames, Hyatt bearings with speed recorder mounting flanges, demo “cantilever” center axle snubbers with speed recorder mounting flanges, sanding lines, and gearbox with individual D77 traction motor and air duct details
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
• Handbrake chain, chain pulley, and tension spring details on right sidesill, under the cab
• Separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position
• Tall jacking pads with holes
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
• 4,400-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers front and rear, vertical gauges front and rear, round gauges in tank sides, and single vertical breather pipe
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses, 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
• EMD Demo scheme metallic blue color matched to TCP-259 EMD Demo Blue
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Minimum radius: 22”
• Recommended Radius: 24”

Sound Features:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Turbocharged EMD 20-645 prime mover sounds
• Curve squeal and frog clank sounds*
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts