Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Features:
- Series SP 8307 to 8321; built 2-4/78
- Road number 8318
- Era: Late 80s to Early 90s
- Plated over front and blanked rear red Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites
- LED-illuminated Prime PM-8911 Stratolite beacon*
- Front and rear late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn on clearance bracket; offset to engineer’s side and mounted on number board housing
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- LED-illuminated-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- Blanked class lights with bolted plates front and rear
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Direction LED headlights
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Front “tall” stepwells with see-through steps and rear “ladder” steps
- 123” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- SP nose headlight package
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and modified “L” front window
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Cab front door with additional door lock at top of door
- Sliding cab side windows
- Mirrors / All-weather window
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
- 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
- Angled rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
- 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
- Front narrow “blunt” front anticlimber 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
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder first axle, left side
- Forward facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil trucks
- Four-hole SP jacking pads
- Spare knuckle boxes mounted to truck sideframes
- Sill-mounted EFCO
- Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
- Single Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 (can style)
- Standard air tanks
- 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
- ACI labels attached to long hood sides
- 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”
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Dual cube-type speakers
- EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors****
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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