Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Locomotive Features:
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- Era: 1970s
- Series 8800-8844, built 8-9/1966 (Phase Ia2)
- SP nose headlight package
- Front operating LED-lit Pyle-National Single Red Gyralite (“UDE Light”)
- Front operating LED-lit Pyle-National Dual Gyralite signal lights
- Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
- Operating LED-lit ground lights
- “35-Line” cab with EMD-option “extended-vision” front windshields (“wanna-be” L-Window)
- Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
- Late SP/UP-style pilot plow with grab irons and rear MU hose catch tray
- Front early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop step
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
- Early straight grabs and “flipped” nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Forward rectangular cab vents on both sides and and one rectangular vent on each side of the cab rear
- Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on cab roof
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- No ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
- Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
- Photoetched spiral ring grilles with center disk
- Short walkway duct (four short stanchions)
- Front angled uncoupling lever with four inner brackets; rear straight uncoupling lever with four inner brackets
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- 4-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Early (angled) deck-mounted MU receptacle with blanked field loop receptacle
- “Tall tab” pilot face with bottom step extension (SP)
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel filler, dual vertical fuel gauges, and round fuel gauge on right tank side
- Detailed Flexicoil (low-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder second axle, left side
- ACI labels attached to long hood sides
- Fully assembled
- 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:
- Operable using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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