DC/DCC Ready
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- Fully-assembled
- Several different road numbers
- Era: As Delivered, series 8764-8888, built 1-4/95
- Road numbers 8765 and 8772
- Early dynamic brake exhaust
- Road numbers 8791, 8835, 8840 and 8888
- Late dynamic brake exhaust
- GE spartan cab with cab-face condensation drain line, and late flat-top low hood
- Operating front, rear, and side LED walkway lights
- Front and rear deck mounted alternating LED ditch lights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
- Semi-scale coupler buffer
- Durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 4-step stepwells with see through steps
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Wide profile end handrails
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and desktop controls or control stand, per prototype
- Dual Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antennas mounted on clean air cab
- Roof top early Dayton-Phoenix air conditioner
- Early curved engine cab profile
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LAR24 horn mounted on engine cab
- Early flanged exhaust stack housing
- 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- High-mounted rear sandfiller
- Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
- Rear anticlimber
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank
- Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Single fuel fills per side
- Late Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, snowplow, spare knuckles, trainline hoses, 3-hose MU clusters, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted bell, brake wheel, exhaust stack 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 under magnification
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: Black TCP-010
- 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 5.0 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*
- DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operate on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
Not all sound and lighting functions on DCC and sound equipped versions are operable using DC
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