Description
Railroad Short Name: FXE
Features:
- Series 4550 to 4574; built 11-12/2004
- Road number 4572
- Era: 2021 to present
- New Ferromex ‘Zebra’ scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
- Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Printed low-mount cab number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Tall snowplow with open doors and two (2) grab irons
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Battery cabinet access door without latch
- GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
- Right side cab under floor access doors: dual large louver panels per door
- Left side cab under floor access doors: dual latch door with grille forward of the HVAC unit
- Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
- In-cab grade crossing camera
- Tinted cab side windows
- Medium mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Octagonal antenna dome
- Late: two (2) tall, welded X-panels and three (3) large, bolted X-panels underneath
- Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
- High-capacity dynamic brake exhaust (3-port)
- Rearward right-side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: three (3) short doors with latches on the #2 door; auxiliary cab filter box door
- Capacitor box on left side walkway
- Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Late angled engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
- Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, tall grilles
- Low-mounted rear sand fill
- Late angled lifting “tabs” on ends of radiator wings
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- Early GE Steerable Trucks
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- No speed recorder
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
- No air dryer
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with angled weld seam; clean out on left side
- Single fuel fills per side
- Vertical analog fuel gauges; “blanked” round gauges; and digital fuel gauges
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe, and connector pipe cover
- Early square handbrake chain bracket
- Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, 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 under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.