Description
Railroad Short Name: CR
Locomotive Features:
Road number 6145
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R (#25 and #31 chimes swapped); mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and dummy MU receptacle mounted to stanchion
- Replacement number board numbers
- Long Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with white painted extensions
Road number 6148
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and dummy MU receptacle mounted to stanchion
- Pennsy style number board numbers
- Short Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with black painted extensions
Road number 6149
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- Replacement number board numbers
- Short Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with black painted extensions
Road number 6151
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- Pennsy style number board numbers
- Long Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with white painted extensions
Road number 6163
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L (all chimes forward); mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and dummy MU receptacle mounted to stanchion
- Pennsy style number board numbers
- Long Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with white painted extensions
Road number 6166
- Era: Late 1970s through mid-1980s, Series 6141-6166, built 1/67, Phase lb1 ex-PC 6141-6166, ex-PRR 6141-6166
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and dummy MU receptacle mounted to stanchion
- Pennsy style number board numbers
- Long Conrail can opener on left sideÂÂ
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and upper extensions welded to ends of bar with black painted extensions
All Conrail SD45s include:
- Operating LED-lit red-only marker lights
- Early (3-strap) cab signal cabinet on top of battery box, engineer’s side
- Front and rear full-width MU catch trays without footboards
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
- 81” low short hood with plated-over handbrake location
- Early straight grabs and “flipped” nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top; top and side grabs relocated to left side to clear cab signal cabinet
- Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- No sunshades
- Forward rectangular cab vents on right cab side
- ÂÂLarge Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- No ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes
- Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
- Photoetched spiral ring grilles with center disk
- ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂLong walkway duct with three short stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Dual early (angled) deck-mounted MU receptacles
- “Short “nub-bottom” pilot face
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Sill-mount EFCO button
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauges, and round fuel gauge on both tank sides
- Detailed Flexicoil (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder second axle, left side
Rivet Counter SD45 Locomotives Also Feature:
- Fully assembled (except undecorated)
- Multiple road numbers
- Printed and LED-lighted number boards
- Scale sectioned walkway treadplate
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Accurate hood door and long hood details
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Separately applied dust bin and exhaust stack
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
- 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, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” 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
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Dual cube-type speakers
- EMD 20-Cylinder 645E3 turbocharged prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*
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