Description
Railroad Short Name: CB&Q
Features:
- Era: 1953 to Late-1960s
- Series 308 to 324, built August-October 1953
- CB&Q 308
- Model badge placed on equipment boxes
- Small cab numbers
- F on lower yellow stripe
- CB&Q 311
- Model badge placed on step boxes
- Larger cab numbers
- F on middle red stripe
- CB&Q 314
- Model badge placed on equipment boxes
- Small cab numbers
- F on middle red stripe
- CB&Q 315
- Model badge placed on step boxes
- Small cab numbers
- F on lower yellow stripe
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated walkway lights on hood ends *
- LED-illuminated Mars SBWR-2-300 dual signal light with clear lens at top and red lens at bottom, mounted to a bracket on front and rear hood ends*
- LED-illuminated, tri-color front and rear, door-mounted class light housings (SD7)**
- High short hood and long hood end number boards
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch boxes with pointed debris deflector
- 5-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale “cast” style coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with retrofitted straight grab handles
- As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
- Pilot-face mounted MU and field loop receptacles, left side
- Standard SD7 stepwells (inset top and middle step) with poling pockets
- “Pipe” style handrail stanchions without end gangways
- No drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD “dot” style pattern
- High short hood with steam generator intake and exhaust on roof
- Standard sub-base
- Standard sidesills with louvered access doors on right side, and recessed charging receptacle on left side
- Model badge placed on equipment boxes
- Early-style EMD LED-illuminated headlight housing with lenses, front and rear
- Cab with “retractable” type armrests
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and early control stand, short-hood forward operation
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast dual Leslie A-200 Tyfon horns on long hood roof behind cab, facing front and rear
- No radio antennas
- Standard bolted electrical cabinet roof hatch
- Separately-applied, tapered exhaust stacks
- Dynamic brake housing with dual 36” fans
- See-through dynamic brake intake grills with resistor grids behind intake vanes
- Separately-applied photo-etched radiator intake screens with intake shutters underneath
- See-through 36” fan housings with separate fans, radiator core detail, and hood roof plumbing
- Winterization hatch over #1 radiator fan
- Separately-applied sand fill hatches
- Detailed EMD Flex-i-Coil “C1” trucks with separately applied brake plumbing, brake cylinders, and flexible neoprene rubber sanding lines
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to second axle on left front truck sideframe
- Standard EMD bell mounted on end of rear fuel tank
- Underbody air filter details
- Single 1,200-gallon water tank at front, and single 1,200-gallon fuel tank mounted to the rear with dual staggered sight glasses per side
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, end ladders, photo-etched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, signal hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks with plumbing, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated 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”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Prime mover sound
- 16-cylinder 567B prime mover sound
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
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