Description
Railroad Short Name: BN
Features:
- Era: Early 1980s-Early 1990s
- Series 6260 to 6263; ex-SLSF 296 to 299, built June 1979
- BN 6263
- Retrofitted extended-range dynamic brakes
- BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie Supertyfon RS-3L-R horn on stand, mounted to rear of dynamic brake hatch
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with grab irons and no multiple unit (MU) hose doors
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles with cable mounted to pilot face
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- 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*
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- 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 and four inner mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear late small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Front and rear late “fixed” drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on right side
- Blanked front and rear class lights
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on left side of cab
- 3-panel all-weather window mounted on right cab side
- Standard EMD sunshade with long sunshade track on left side only
- Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late welded ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Dual tall exhaust stacks
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Angled Paper Air Filter (PAF) housing
- 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 HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, clasp-style brakes, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheesets in service
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Aeroquip speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HT-C trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank and curved breather pipe
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- 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 & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Non-turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPak” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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