Athearn HO SD45T-2 Cotton Belt

Description

Railroad Short Name: SSW, CB

#9269, #9273, & #9277 Locomotive Features

• LED illuminated headlights and signal lights
• Nathan P3 air horn
• Whip antenna
• Cab mounted Gyralight
• Large EMD style plow
• Small anticlimber
• Coupler cut levers no loops
• Cab mounted bell

• First time offering DCC+Sound Version, including new T-2 rear truck design for more visibly see through grilles
• All-new LED lighting
• First time pilot detail including rubber MU hoses for durability
• Photo-etched stainless steel windshield wipers

• Fully assembled and ready-to-run
• Rubber trainline and MU hoses with silver ends, first time offered
• “Mushroom” nose vent on right side
• Separately applied wire grab irons
• Standard late Dash-2 4-window/L-window cab without louvers or roof seam per prototype
• See through cab windows
• Fixed cab side windows
• Welded ECAFB
• See-through dynamic brake fans
• See through radiator grilles with new rear truck gearbox speific for the tunnel motor
• Fine scale handrails
• Photoetch windshield wipers, first time offered
• Separately applied air tanks
• Speed recorder attached to appropriate axle per prototype (except undecorated)
• McHenry scale knuckle spring couplers
• Highly-detailed, injection molded body
• Painted and printed for realistic decoration
• LED Lighting, first time offered
• All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth and quiet operation
• All-wheel electrical pickup
• 5-pole motor with flywheels and multi-link drivetrain for trouble-free operation
• Compatible with Genesis motor retrofit kit
• Window packaging for easy viewing
• Interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage
• DCC Ready 21-pin NEM Quick Plug™ technology
• Available also with factory installed Econami Sound by Soundtraxx, first time offered
• Nickel plated, blackened machined wheels
• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
• Replacement parts available including motor brushes
• Minimum radius: 18in
• Recommended radius: 22in

#9376, #9383, #9398, & #9389 Locomotive Features

#9389

• Nathan P5 air horn
• Paint scheme: Bicentennial
• Previous run: October 2010

#9376, #9383, and #9398

• Nathan P3 air horn with bracket
• Paint scheme: Bloody Nose
• Previous run: July 2005
• New road numbers

All Cotton Belt road numbers

• Southern Pacific tall snowplow – front
• Rear M.U. hose catch tray without footboard pilot
• Pyle-National single Gyralite with red lens
• Late SP L-window cab without louvers or roof seam
• Dual Pyle-National Gyralite cab headlight
• Cab roof bell
• Vapor air conditioner
• Rectangular cab vent with large cover
• Dustbin mounted antenna ground plane with round base whip antenna, conduit, and lift ring
• Intermediate walkway with large anticlimber and cast jacking pads
• Rectangular builder’s plate
• ACI plate
• Era: 1975-1999
• Speed recorder located on the first axle, left (conductor’s) side; with cable to rear

• Fully assembled and ready-to-run
• Southern Pacific early Dash-2 split battery box doors
• Nose vent
• Separately applied wire grab irons
• Detailed 4,500 gallon fuel tank
• Separately applied air tanks
• DCC ready
• Minimum radius: 18″
• Recommended radius: 22″