Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Locomotive Features
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
SP 8494, 8496: Series SP 8489-8498, blt. January 1978
- Era represented by paint and detail configuration: mid-1990s
- Repainted to SP Speed Lettering
- Deleted SP lighting package
- Blanked front and rear class lights
- Modified cab L-Window
- Operating LED Prime PM-8911 Stratolite beacon added to cab roof
- Operating LED walkway-mount ditch lights added to front anticlimber
- Front tall SP plow
- Rear snowplow removed
- Large ‘blunt’ front anticlimber
- 88in low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Late cab sub-base ‘split’ doors with lift-off hinges
- Bolted battery doors with wide louvers
- Cab with bolted side window panels, sunshades, and long sunshade tracks
- Small mirrors mounted fore and aft of cab side windows
- Vapor air conditioner
- Cab roof steel bell on tripod mount
- Cab roof antenna conduit and antenna ground plane on dustbin with whip antenna base
- Nathan P-3 Horn with clearance bracket relocated to long hood
- Extended-range dynamic brake housing with batten strip and late (latched) radiator fan access doors
- Early electrical cabinet ‘zig-zag’ seam
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills
- See-through etched-metal radiator intake screens
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
- Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail
- Front straight uncoupling lever with loop handles
- Rear angled uncoupling lever
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Front notched pilot faces with lifting slots
- SP-style 4-hole jacking plates
- Prime air filter (can style)
- Highly detailed 4,400-gallon fuel tank with front and rear fuel fillers
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearings, sanding lines and brackets, late center axle snubber, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Speed recorder on first axle
Rivet Counter SD40T-2 ‘Tunnel Motor’ Locomotives Also Feature
- Specially-designed low-profile drivetrain means the rear gear tower and driveshaft are completely hidden
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Correct stepwell angles and dimensions
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab windows
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
- Directional LED headlights
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18in
- Recommended radius: 22in
DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature
- Operate using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
For a complete list of features, visit the Scale Trains website
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