Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Locomotive Features:
- Sacramento Locomotive Works M-99 (GRIP II) Program Rebuilds
- Era: mid 1980s to early 1990s
- Series 7489-7529, rebuilt 1-10/84 as class EF636LR-1
- Series 7530-7536, rebuilt 11/84 as class EF636LR-2
- Phase IIb2
- Road number 7490
- “Roseville” homeport lettering
- Southern Pacific “GRIP” battery box doors without top reinforcing rib
- SLW “modified” FARR-Aire radiator intake grills (SP “GRIP” rebuild)
- Detailed Flexicoil (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 7502
- “Houston” homeport lettering
- Southern Pacific “GRIP” battery box doors with top reinforcing rib
- Chickenwire radiator grilles with diamond mess
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, and sanding lines with brackets
- Road number 7516
- “Los Angeles” homeport lettering
- Southern Pacific “GRIP” battery box doors with top reinforcing rib
- “Chickenwire” radiator intake grilles with diamond-pattern mesh screens
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (low-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, and sanding lines with brackets
- Road number 7526
- “Los Angeles” homeport lettering
- Southern Pacific “GRIP” battery box doors with top reinforcing rib
- SLW “modified” FARR-Aire radiator intake grills (SP “GRIP” rebuild)
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, and sanding lines with brackets
- Road numbers 7530 and 7532
- “Los Angeles” homeport lettering
- Southern Pacific “GRIP” battery box doors with top reinforcing rib
- SLW “modified” FARR-Aire radiator intake grills (SP “GRIP” rebuild)
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, and sanding lines with brackets
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Front and rear operating LED Pyle-National Dual “Gyralite” signal lights*
- Front and rear operating LED Pyle-National Single Red “Gyralite” signal lights (“UDE Lights”)
- Class lights deleted as part of rebuild process
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
- Printed and LED-lighted number boards
- Tall western-style EMD plow with grab irons
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Late” pattern walkway treadplate
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Southern Pacific style “split” cab sub-base doors
- 81” low short hood without handbrake
- Southern Pacific style nose headlight package
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab with modified L-Window (“used-to-be” L-Window)
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Forward rectangular cab vents on left and right cab sides
- Sliding cab windows
- Large Southern Pacific style arm rests
- 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
- Forward rectangular cab vents on both sides and one rectangular vent on each side of the cab rear
- Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P3 horn (P24R1 configuration), mounted center rear of number board housing
- “Whip” antenna base (communications) on cab roof, and mini whip antenna base (EOT) on number board housing
- Accurate hood door and long hood details
- Dash-2 upgrade electrical cabinet seam and alternator door
- Large stand-off ECAFB (Dash-2 type)
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard-height dust bin
- Early (short forward-taper) extended-range dynamic brake housing with Dash-2 style contactor doors, retrofitted cooling vents, dual roof “T” vents, and retrofitted ventilation louvers
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
- Water sight glass
- Standard-height fan housings
- Photoetched concentric-ring fan grilles
- Short walkway duct with retrofitted screened toolbox on blower duct end, three short stanchions
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
- Front angled uncoupling lever with two inner, and two outer brackets, and rear straight uncoupling lever with two inner and two outer brackets
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and extra center “breakaway” stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Late deck-mounted MU receptacle with attached permanent MU cable and dummy receptacle on deck
- Tall “zig-zag” pilot plates with access plate and reinforced angled slot lifting eyes
- Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fills, single vertical fuel gauge, stem-mounted fuel gauge, and blanked dial gauge per side
- 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
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
- Dual cube-type speakers
- EMD 20-Cylinder 645E3 turbocharged prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors (Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC)
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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