Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Locomotive Features
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- Road number 8286
- Era: mid/late 1980s, series SP 8230-8299, built 1980
- Dash-2 Cab with welded side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
- Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Operating LED front tri-color flush-mounted with raised gasket and stand-off rear class lights
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to rear of cab
- Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin
- “Post 1980” extended-range dynamic brakes with exhaust silencer
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets; straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Frame-mounted bell
- Road number 8315
- Era: mid/late 1980s, series 8307-8321, built 1978
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and modified “L” front window
- Front and rear late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Blanked class lights with round plate
- 123” “snoot nose” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
- SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Round walkway lights (non-operating)
- Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
- Extended-range dynamic brakes
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets; angled rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Road number 8377
- Era: mid/late 1980s, series 8377-8391, built 1979
- Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
- Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Operating LED front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights
- 123” “snoot nose” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Round walkway lights (non-operating)
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
- Extended-range dynamic brakes
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets; straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Frame-mounted bell
- SP nose headlight package
- Operating front and rear red LED Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites
- Operating Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” in number board housing
- Operating front and rear LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” signal light
- Front pilot anticlimber
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- 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
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- EMD sunshades with riveted batten strip and long sunshade tracks
- Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Four-hole SP jacking pads
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Prime air filter (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
- Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Speed recorder first axle, left side
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
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature
- ESU-LokSound v5 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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