Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD45 Burlington Northern

Description

Railroad Short Name: BN

Features:

• Era: 1971 to mid 1980s
• Road numbers 6544, 6549 and 6554
  • Burlington Northern series 6543-6555, built 11/71,Phase III
  • Paint and lettering variations
• Road numbers 6556, 6563 and 6566
  • Burlington Northern series 6556-6567, built 12/71,Phase III
  • Paint and lettering variations
• Fully-assembled
• 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-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised
• gasket**
• LED-lit Prime PM-8901 Stratolite Beacon*
• Front EMD-style low pilot snowplow with MU hose doors and grab irons, rear MU hose catch tray.
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Pivoting front and rear drop steps
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• “Late” pattern walkway treadplate
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• 81” low short hood without handbrake
• Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
• Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
• Tall square corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades mounted on long sunshade tracks
• Standard EMD arm rests
• No cab vents
• Horn Lost-wax brass Leslie RS-3K-R horn mounted on the right front cab
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on cab roof
• Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
• Small ECAFB
• Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
• Standard-height dust bin
• Standard-height exhaust stack
• Late (long forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
• “Chickenwire radiator grilles with rectangular-pattern mess screens
• Standard-height fan housings
• Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
• Long walkway duct with three short stanchions
• Walkway mounted spare coupler knuckle basket
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets
• Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
• 4-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Late deck-mounted MU receptacle
• Tall straight-edged pilots with step tabs
• Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
• Tall jacking pads with holes
• Tab-mount EFCO button
• Frame-mounted bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauges, and round dial fuel gauge on right tank side
• Detailed Flexicoil-C (high and low mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder second axle, left side
• 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
• Directional LED headlights
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DC/DCC & Sound Ready Features:

• Operable using a DC power pack
• DCC-ready with 21-pin connector