Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD45R Undecorated “GRIP Rebuild” w/ DCC & Sound

Description

Locomotive Features:

• Unpainted and unassembled
• Modeling skills and prototype knowledge required
• Step-by-step assembly instructions are NOT included
• 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 – Drayton emailed Mike Tuesday AM to confirm
• Phase IIb2
• 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 “GRIP” battery box doors without top reinforcing rib
• 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) for 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 to be mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades to be 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), to be mounted center rear of number board housing
• “Whip” antenna base (communications) on cab roof, and mini whip antenna base (EOT) to be mounted 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
• SLW “modified” FARR-Aire radiator intake grills (SP “GRIP” rebuild)
• 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 to be 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
• Steel bell to be mounted on frame
• 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
• Detailed Flexicoil (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder first axle, left side
• Detail parts include: 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