Description
Railroad Short Name: DRGW
Features:
- Era: 1986 to mid 1990s
- Rio Grande series 5386 to 5397, built 8:1978
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated box-mounted Pyle-National 20585 Gyralite signal light in low short hood*
- LED-illuminated front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights**
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Directional LED headlights
- “McCarty” type re-rail frogs
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without MU hose doors and grab irons
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Front late small deck extension
- Late front drop step (“fixed”)
- Front “tall” stepwells with see-through steps and rear “ladder” steps
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in numberboard housing
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels and D&RGW blue flag bracket
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Original cab front door
- Sliding cab side windows
- Standard Mirror mounted fore of cab side windows, both sides
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn, center rear of number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small wedge antenna mounted on cab roof
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Extended-range dynamic brake
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain; break-away stanchions on both ends
- Handrail ends and step faces painted white
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front late small deck extension rear full-width front pilot anticlimber
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- See-through standard 48” dynamic brake fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
- Separate radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets (outboard only), and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Retrofitted PTC wheel slip pickups on left side axles 1-3, and right side axles 4-6
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder third axle, right side
- Forward facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil trucks
- Tall jacking pads without holes (intermediate)
- Sill-mounted EFCO
- Frame-mounted bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- Air tanks with fluid drain pipes on sides of fuel tank
- 4,400 gallon fuel tank with reinforced tank edges where sides meet the tank ends, dual fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, round gauge on stand and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- 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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