Description
Railroad Short Name: NW
Locomotive Features:
Road number 1771, 1782 and 1785
- Era: Feb 1970 through mid-1970s
- Series 1765-1789, built 2-70 Phase IIb2
- Early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes
Road numbers 1810 and 1812
- Era: Feb 1969 through mid-1970s
- Series 1790-1814, built 12-69 Phase IIb2
- Includes both early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes as well as early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
All Norfolk & Western SD45s include:
- 81” high short hood
- Headlight mounted in top of high short hood
- High bell mounted a top of short hood
- Leslie RS-5T-R Horn mounted to top of short hood
- ÂÂMotorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on top of short hood
- Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
- Front and rear MU hose catch trays with footboards
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Late” pattern walkway treadplate
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab without center front windshields
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Small shades
- No cab vents
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- Small ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
- Photoetched concentric ring grille
- ÂÂShort walkway duct with four short stanchions
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets and pilot face mounted long grabiron
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Late deck mounted MU receptacle
- Short “zig-zag” pilot face
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-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 triple clasp brake shoes, 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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