Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
Features:
- Era: 2000s
- Series 3377 to 3404; ex-CR 6441 to 6482, built 9-11/1974
- Ex-Conrail “Thoroughbred” repainted units
- Road number 3379
- Flange lubrication cabinet
- Rear pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- Standard bolted battery box door on left side with short louvers; bolted and latched Conrail-style “split” battery box door on right side to accommodate Cab Signal System (CSS) box on top of battery box
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn with anti-debris “shower caps”; mounted on number board housing
- Large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted on numberboard housing on either side of the horn, additional large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna mounted on cab roof
- GE type speed recorder mounted to center axle on left front, additional GE type speed recorder mounted to third axle on right side
- Road number 3394
- Flange lubrication cabinet
- Front dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacle mounted on left side of anticlimber deck
- Rear pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles (x2)
- Standard bolted battery box door on left side with short louvers; bolted and latched Conrail-style “split” battery box door on right side to accommodate Cab Signal System (CSS) box on top of battery box
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn with anti-debris “shower caps”; mounted on number board housing
- Large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted on numberboard housing on either side of the horn, additional large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna mounted on cab roof
- GE type speed recorder mounted to center axle on left front, additional standard speed recorder mounted to center axle on right side
- Road number 3396
- Rear pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles (x2)
- Standard bolted battery box door on left side with short louvers; bolted and latched Conrail-style “split” battery box door on right side to accommodate Cab Signal System (CSS) box on top of battery box
- Tall mirror mounted on right side of cab
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P-5 (P5R24) horn with anti-debris “shower caps”; mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted on numberboard housing on either side of the horn, additional large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna mounted on cab roof
- Spare knuckle basket on walkway
- GE type speed recorder mounted to center axle on left front
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- Blanked front and rear class lights with gasket
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Two strap Cab Signal System (CSS) box
- Equipped with LSL indicator lights (non operating) aft of cab on frame (both sides)
- Front and rear EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors, 3rd rail notches and grab irons
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- Front pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
- Handrail set with anticlimber front; outward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Rear late “fixed” drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake; nose top and side grab irons repositioned to opposed side for Cab Signal System (CSS) box clearance.
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with 13-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
- Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Angled radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed Flexicoil sideframes with Hyatt bearing caps, high mounted brake cylinders, outer sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air brake duct details
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Forward facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 centrifugal air filter (accordion-style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauge in tank sides, and vertical breather pipe
- 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
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC Ready Features:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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