Description
Railroad Short Name: CNW
Features:
- Era: 1974 to Mid-1980s
- Series 6816 to 6865; built Feb
- Road numbers 6817, 6824 and 6833
- Original Yellow – “Employee Owned” Logo
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Federal Signal 372 rotary beacon (non-operating)*
- Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
- Equipped with ATS pickup shoes
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
- Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
- Angled uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and four inner mounting brackets
- As-delivered pilot faces with reinforced lifting holes
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Tall” stepwells
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Standard front and rear drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight in number board housing
- Dash two cab with bolted side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Rear cab side vent on right side
- Tall mirror mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof.
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately profiled extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
- Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Nose-mounted “gong” bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, and 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 match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-108 CNW Yellow and TCP-109 CNW Green
- Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
- Recommended radius: 11”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- One (1) cube-type speaker
- EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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