Description
Railroad Short Name: CNW
Features:
- Era: 11/1994 to approximately 2000
- Series 8801 to 8835; built 11-12/1994
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
- Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Printed low-mount cab number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Tall snowplow with open doors and two (2) grab irons
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E lower-shelf knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Battery cabinet access door with latch
- GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
- Right side cab under floor access doors: four screened louver sections per door
- Left side cab under floor access doors: dual latch door with grille forward of the HVAC unit
- Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
- Tinted cab side windows
- Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna; small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna; and small “cone” antenna
- Early Inverter Cabinet: six (6) tall vertical rectangular bolted panels and three (3) horizontal short panels
- Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
- High-capacity dynamic brake exhaust (3-port)
- Forward right-side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: three (3) medium doors with latches on the #2 door
- Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Early curved engine cab profile
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HAR24 horn mounted on engine cab
- Early flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, tall grilles
- Low-mounted rear sand fill
- Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- Late Hi-Ad trucks with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- Speed recorder on second axle both sides
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
- No air dryer
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
- Early square handbrake chain bracket
- CNW-style spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, 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
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
Sound Features:
- ESU-LokSound 5 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” Functions
- 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
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