Description
Railroad Short Name: BNSF
Road Number Features:
- Era: 2005- Mid 2012s
- Series 5798-5837, built 9-10/05
- Road number: 5831
- Without PTC array
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front deck-mounted ditch lights
- Prototype BNSF ES44s do not have ground lights
- “C4” A-1-A trucks with idler center axle
- Prototype equipped with a weight management system for optimum adhesion control
- Separately applied details include additional truck side frame cylinders, air piping, cam details, and control boxes mounted on sidesills
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets
- Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
- Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Late handrails with U-bolt caps and wide rear most stanchion on long side
- Front nose headlight
- Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
- Right side nose door with window
- Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
- Late cab without barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- Left side under cab front access bolted X panel, rear door with square corrugated grille
- Dual cab side blue flag holder
- Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Cab roof JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with three large and three small Sinclair antennas
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
- Small hinged inverter cabinet door
- Left side dynamic brake cab: late single blower dynamic brake package with dual stand-off exhaust, two small center grilles, and latched center door
- Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small grille, door with grille, and X panel door
- Short right side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: 3 medium doors with latches on the #2 door and long auxiliary cab filter box door
- Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof
- ET44 style engine cab doors: latched center door in each set of three
- Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three
- Flush heat exchanger housing
- Raised radiator grille
- Right side radiator cab: fourth and fifth have short grilles
- Flat water fill box with sight glass
- AEI tag mounted to right sidesill
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824 air filters
- Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
- 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank vertical fuel gauge and, round fuel gauge
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Angled top left side fuel tank top box
- Short sump drainpipe
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale SBE bottom shelf knuckle couplers
Locomotive Features:
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, control stand, and grade crossing camera
- Tinted cab side windows
- Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- Separate exhaust stack
- 22 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow, spare knuckles, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, and more.
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Dual flywheels
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU-LokSound 5 decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Dual cube-type speakers
- Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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