Description
Railroad Short Name: SBD
Features:
- Era: 1980s
- Seaboard series 8924-8944, built 9-10:71, Phase IIc
- Road number 8925
- Patched SCL to Seaboard System
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (low-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 8934
- Patched SCL to Seaboard System
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road numbers 8943
- Relettered from SCL to Clinchfield and patched Seaboard System
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Fully-assembled
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
- Tall Western-style EMD plow on front, rear MU hose catch tray
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Late” pattern walkway treadplate
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- 81” low short hood without handbrake
- Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Tall angled 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
- Standard EMD arm rests
- No cab vents
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-5T-RRO horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on cab roof
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- Small ECAFB
- Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
- Standard-height dust bin
- Standard-height exhaust stack
- Late (long forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
- “Chickenwire radiator grilles with rectangular-pattern mesh screens
- Standard-height fan housings
- Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
- Long walkway duct with three short stanchions
- Walkway mounted spare coupler knuckle basket
- Front and rear angled uncoupling levers with loop handles and four inner brackets
- Handrail set with deck mounted outer end rail 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 face
- Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- Frame-mounted bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauges, and round dial fuel gauge on right tank side
- Speed recorder second axle, left side
- Factory-applied 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
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 20 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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