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
- LED-illuminated front pilot face-mounted ditch lights
- LED-illuminated low-mount cab number boards*
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Painted and factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons; trainline hoses with silver gladhands; 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands; MU cable, uncoupling levers; windshield wipers; mirrors; sunshades; brake wheel; and more
- Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
- Semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible
- Body mounted coupler box – accepts Micro-Trains® 1015/1016 type couplers without modification
- 5-step stepwells
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Front LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on low short hood (low headlight)
- 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
- Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and desktop
- Tinted cab side windows
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna; small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna; and small “cone” antenna
- Early: 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
- Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 2 individually applied etched metal radiator exhaust grilles.
- 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 sandfiller
- Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
- Rear LED-illuminated vertical headlight with lenses
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders and air plumbing
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
- No air dryer
- 5,000 gallon fuel tank
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe, and connector pipe cover
- Early square handbrake chain bracket
- CNW-style spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 9 ¾”
- Recommended Radius: 11”
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU-LokSound 5 Nano DCC & sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Cube-type speaker
- Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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