Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD45 Southern “Gold Lettering”

Description

Railroad Short Name: SOU

Locomotive Features:

• Series 3122 to 3157, built 11-67
• Phase IIa2
• Road number 3125
  • Era: late 1960s to early 1970s
  • Without Southern logos on hood ends
  • No sun awning
  • ATC pickup shoe on 2nd axle on both sides of locomotive
  • No ACI labels
• Road numbers 3128R and 3131A
  • Era: early 1970s to mid 1970s
  • Southern logos on hood ends
  • Southern style sun awning
  • ACI labels on long hood sides
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
• Printed and LED-lighted number boards
• 81” high short hood
• Headlight mounted in top of high short hood
• High steel bell mounted on top of long hood
• Short and long hood top mounted walkway lights (non-operating)
• Front and rear full-width MU catch trays with footboards
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps and lifting slots
• “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Pivoting front and rear drop steps
• Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and ATS extension on fireman’s side rear battery box
• Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
• Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• “35-Line” cab without center front windshields
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• No cab vents
• Sliding cab windows
• No arm rests
• Tall square corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P5 Horn (P135R24 configuration)
• Single Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on top of short hood
• Accurate hood door and long hood details
• Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
• Small ECAFB
• Early (smooth) blower duct housing
• Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Standard height dust bin
• Standard-height exhaust stack
• Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes
• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
• “Chickenwire” radiator intake grilles with diamond-pattern mesh screens
• Standard-height fan housings
• Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
• Short walkway duct with four short stanchions
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
• 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 with field loop receptacle
• Tall “zig-zag” pilot face
• Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
• Pilot face grab iron with upper mounting points
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Tall jacking pads with holes
• Tab-mount EFCO button
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, and dual “staggered” vertical fuel gauge per side
• Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder first axle, left side
• Factory-applied detail parts: 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
• Paint colors matched to Tru-Color Paint: TCP-010 Black, TCP-080 Imitation Aluminum
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

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