Description
Railroad Short Name: CSX
Features:
- Era: 1991 to mid 1990s
- Series 8182 to 8211; ex-L&N 3554 to 3583, built 10-12/1974
- Road number 8192
- Front EMD-style tall pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
- Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside
- Round vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Road number 8199
- Front EMD-style tall pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
- Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside
- Round vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Road number 8203
- Round vent retrofitted to right side of low hood
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed HT-C trucks with rotating Timken bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated CSX style front deck 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*
- 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; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
- Front pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, rear mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles with permanently attached MU cable plugged into Dummy deck mounted receptacles
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and straight chain guard
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight mounted on low nose, upper headlight location blanked over
- Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at top mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LR24 horn mounted on numberboard housing
- Retrofitted CSX style EOT antenna mounted over original radio “whip” base
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- GE type speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to first axle on left front
- Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the fireman’s side
- Graham-White 975-100 “Twin-Tower” air dryer assembly; retrofitted to rear of air reservoir on fireman’s side
- Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 air filter (can style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauge in tank sides, electronic fuel gauge 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 & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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