Description
Railroad Short Name: DRGW
Features:
- Era: 1970s-era
- Series 3086 to 3093, built Nov/1971
- D&RGW 3087, 3088, 3089, 3090, and 3093:
- EMD square-corner “Burnham” number boards
- D&RGW 3092:
- Original EMD number boards
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated Mars SBW-2-301 dual signal light (clear lenses) mounted in low short hood*
- LED-illuminated tri-color, flush-mounted front and rear class lights with raised gaskets
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Front EMD low plow with MU hose doors
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
- Square-corner pilot face with angled lifting slots, front and rear
- “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
- “Tall” stepwells with “zig-zag” pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck-mounted stanchions, front and rear
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Positionable straight (late) drop steps, front and rear
- Late treadplate
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
- Early cab sub-base doors with non-terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Dual right rear cab steps
- Late cab step guards (short taper)
- Hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
- Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
- “35-Line” cab with standard armrests, and flag holder bracket on right side (D&RGW)
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, cab blowers, rear wall, early seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Positionable cab side windows
- Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Nathan AirChime M3 (M3R1) horn mounted on number board housing
- Excalibur low-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
- Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high on fireman’s side)
- Small ECAFB
- Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
- Late long handrail stanchion spacing with all “tall” stanchions overall
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Late standard-range dynamic brake housing (long tapers), with rectangular vent
- See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housing mounted on riser ring with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill
- Dynamic brake intakes with see-through intake vanes, and resistor grid detail inside of the housing
- Rectangular-mesh radiator intake screening
- See-through standard-height 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
- Separately-applied radiator core detail mounted inside of long hood, visible under radiator fans
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight and standard housing
- Late rear sander door catch placement (outboard)
- Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
- Detailed Blomberg-B truck frames (LFM-cast) with Hyatt bearing housings, separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
- Separately-applied flexible neoprene sanding lines at both ends of trucks
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Early EMD speed recorder mounted to right #1 axle
- “McCarty” type re-rail frogs
- ACI labels mounted to blower duct on left side, and rear cab step kickplate on right side
- Standard 4 jacking pads
- Frame-mounted bell
- Salem-brand #824-170 and #818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
- Separately-applied brake vent regulator valve and plumbing detail on underbody
- 3600-gallon fuel tank with late mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on both sides, and late rear drain bar
- Separately-applied fuel fillers, drains, and breather piping on fuel tanks
- Separately-applied engine oil sump drain fitting with hose
- Separately-applied radiator water drain fitting on underbody
- Separately-applied truck air line plumbing on underbody above each truck, both sides
- Separately-applied wireform grab irons, wireform lift rings, etched 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-illuminated 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”
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