Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD9M Norfolk Southern “Ditch Lights”

Description

Railroad Short Name: NS

Features:

• Era: Mid-1990s – Early 2000s
• Series NS 50 to 59, ex-NKP 340-359, built March/April 1957
• NS 53:
  • LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights*
  • No MU hoses
  • No MU receptacles
  • Standard EMD bell mounted on end of rear fuel tank
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P5 (P135R24) horn with anti-debris “shower caps”
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna, and Excalibur large and small “ice skate” antennas mounted on top of the high short hood roof
  • Dashed frame striping added
  • Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn on long hood roof behind cab
  • Rebuilt sidesills with blanked access doors
• NS 54:
  • LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights*
  • 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
  • Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle on right side
  • Dual dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles with cable mounted to pilot faces
  • EMD bracket-mounted bell installed on high short hood end
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P5 (P135R24) horn on long hood roof behind cab
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on top of the high short hood
  • Rebuilt sidesills with blanked access doors on right side, and modified doors on left side
  • Spare knuckle basket mounted on the right front walkway
• NS 55:
  • LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights*
  • 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
  • Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle on right side, and blanked field loop receptacle, left side
  • EMD bracket-mounted bell installed on high short hood end
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P5 (P135R24) horn on long hood roof behind cab
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on top of the high short hood
  • Rebuilt sidesills with blanked access doors on right side, and modified doors on left side
• NS 56:
  • LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights*
  • No MU hoses
  • No MU receptacles
  • EMD bracket-mounted bell installed on high short hood end
  • Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn on long hood roof behind cab
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on top of the high short hood
  • Rebuilt sidesills with blanked access doors
• Fully-assembled
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-illuminated walkway lights on hood ends *
• LED-illuminated, tri-color front and rear class light housings on upper hood corners (SD9)**
• High short hood and long hood end number boards
• 4-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
• Modified pilot faces with tall uncoupling lever loop cutouts
• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacles and blanked field loop receptacles, both sides
• Standard SD9 stepwells with poling pockets
• “Channel” style handrail stanchions with end gangways with chain
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD “dot” style pattern
• Standard high short hood
• Standard sub-base
• Standard sidesills with louvered access doors on right side
• Early-style EMD LED-illuminated headlight housing with lenses, front and rear
• Cab with standard armrests
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and early control stand
• 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 Leslie S-3-L horn mounted to long hood behind cab
• 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
• 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
• GE type speed recorder mounted to second axle on right front truck sideframe
• Standard EMD bell mounted on end of rear fuel tank
• Underbody air filter details
• Single 1,200-gallon fuel tank mounted to the rear with single sight glass and round inset dial gauge per side, and single 1,200-gallon fuel tank to the front
• 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”

DCC Ready Features:

• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector