Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
Features:
- Era: 1999 to 2010s
- Series 9245 to 9394, built 10/1998-6/1999 “Operation Lifesaver” Scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
- LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
- LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating)
- End of Train Device (EOTD) mounting bracket on right rear truck sideframe
- Tall, narrow snowplow with open doors and grab irons
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front and rear anticlimbers
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Wide profile end handrails
- Front high (cab) mounted headlight
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Electrical cabinet access doors with barrel bolt safety latches
- Battery cabinet access door with latch
- GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
- Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s AAR-style control stand
- In-cab grade crossing camera
- Tinted cab side windows
- Dual wind deflector mounted fore and aft of sliding cab windows on both sides
- Dual large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antennas, and dual small Sinclair “ice skate” antennas
- Electrical cabinet with barrel bolt safety latches, step on rear, and spare knuckle basket
- Dayton-Phoenix GE Side-Mount Model 2806220 HVAC unit
- Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
- Late dynamic brake exhaust
- Late angled engine cab profile with raised “dot” treadplate on centerline
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LAR24 horn mounted on engine cab
- Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 26 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on the sides and top of the radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Electric handbrake without brake wheel, and with electric brake actuator on right front truck side frame
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, tall grilles
- Low-mounted rear sand fill
- Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on the right front and left rear side frames
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- No speed recorder
- Dual Graham-White (Prime) 975-075 Air Filters
- Graham-White 975-100 “Twin Tower” Air Dryer
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with angled weld seam and clean out on left side
- Single fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges, and digital fuel gauges
- Fuel tank-mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe, and connector pipe cover
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, and more
- Motor with 5-pole, skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the 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 GE 7FDL16 prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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