Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
#3329 Locomotive Features
- Ex-Conrail
- Front snowplow
- Late coupler cut levers
- Large anticlimber
- Illuminated ditch lights (Effect with horn blown on DCC/sound version)
- 88″ nose with brakewheel
- Round nose vent on right side
- Standard late -2 4-window cab without roof seam and louvers
- Riveted cab side panels
- Cab signal box
- Mirrors/wind deflectors fore of windows
- Oval cab vent on left-side of cab
- Nathan P3 Air Horn
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” antenna and two small Sinclair “ice skate” antennas
- Intermediate -2 battery box door on left-hand side
- Horizontal split battery box door on right-hand side
- Welded ECAFB
- Early extended range dynamic brake
- Corrugated radiator grilles
- Standard radiator fans
- Flexicoil trucks
The NS 3329 is the ex Conrail 6358 the first SD40-2 purchased new by Conrail in June of 1977. Painted into the MAERSK Sealand scheme in the Summer of 2002 for the grand opening of a new MAERSK facility located on Terminal Island in the Port of Los Angeles. NS painted and sent to CA this special painted SD40-2 for ceremonies and photo ops. The locomotive continued on in this scheme until about May 2008 when it was painted back into black.
- All-new LED lighting
- Rubber MU hoses for durability
- Photo-etched stainless steel windshield wipers
- Fully assembled and ready-to-run
- Separately applied wire grab irons
- Separately applied air tanks
- Coupler cut levers
- Rubber MU hoses
- Photo-etch stainless steel windshield wipers
- Fine scale handrails molded in engineering plastic
- Non-sound version features 21-pin NEM DCC plug
- See-through dynamic brake and radiator fans
- Exhaust stack
- Frame mounted bell (unless noted)
- Detailed 4000 gallon fuel tank (unless different capacity is noted)
- HTC or Flexicoil-C trucks (per prototype)
- McHenry scale knuckle spring couplers
- Highly-detailed, injection molded body featuring new tooling
- Painted and printed for realistic decoration
- See through cab windows
- Bi-directional LED lighting
- All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth and quiet operation
- All-wheel electrical pickup
- 5-pole motor with flywheels and multi-link drivetrain
- Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
- Minimum radius: 18in
- Recommended radius: 22in
SOUND EQUIPPED MODELS ALSO FEATURE
- Onboard Econami sound decoder by Soundtraxx
- Engine startup sound sequence
- Dynamic brake sound or Non-Dynamic Straight to idle on F4
- Extra prime mover and horn sounds exclusive to Athearn version
- Multiple bell sound files user configurable via Configuration Value (CV)
- Sound units operate in both DC and DCC
- Full DCC functions available when operated in DCC mode
- Engine, horn, and bell sounds work in DC
- All functions NMRA compatible in DCC mode
- Excellent Slow speed control
- Current Keeper ready with on board expansion plug
- Operating lighting functions with F5 and/or F6
- Program a multiple unit (MU) lashup with lead unit only horn, bell, and lights
- Many functions can be altered via CV changes
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