Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
Features:
- Era: 1973 to mid-1970s
- Series SP 9503-9505; ex-EMD 4201-4203, built 6/1970
- Fully-assembled
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 “Gyralite” dual signal light mounted in number board housing*
- LED-illuminated tricolor flush-mounted front class lights with raised gaskets, and stand-off rear class lights mounted on angled housings
- LED-illuminated cab interior and control stand lighting*
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Tall “Western” style pilot plow with grab irons, front and rear
- 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear angled uncoupling levers without loop handles
- Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle on front, and pilot face mounted multiple unit receptacle on rear
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps on front, and Tunnel Motor-style rear “ladder” steps
- Front early small deck extension, and full-width anticlimber on rear
- End handrails with pilot face mounted outer and deck-mounted inner stanchions on front, and Tunnel Motor-style rear full-width anticlimber deck-mounted stanchions
- Front standard drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood (81” with 7” extension ahead of cab) with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard, right side
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
- Early SP “split” cab sub-base doors (tab-style hinges)
- SP-style nose headlight package: horizontally-mounted dual sealed-beam standard headlight, with a single red Pyle-National (Translite) #17540 Gyralite signal light mounted in recess above
- Early “Dash-2”-style cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels, large armrests on both sides, long rear roof overhang, front cab heater/blower extension (right side), and L-shaped front engineer’s window
- Rectangular vent towards front of cab, both sides, and rectangular vent on both sides of cab rear
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall angled-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Nathan P3 (P24R1) horn mounted on number board housing
- “Whip” antenna base mounted to right rear of cab roof
- Standard SD45X long hood with accurate door and latch details
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- SD45X-style wide turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brake housing with large “shoebox” vent at rear
- See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housings with 9-blade fan and hub detail visible inside
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail behind the intake vanes
- FARR Air-brand radiator intake grills
- Four see-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with 9-blade fan and hub detail visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Radiator core water spray system pipe between #2 and #3 radiator fans
- Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
- Early Rockwell-cast (“wreath” logo) HT-C truck frames, Hyatt bearings, intermediate center axle snubbers (reinforcing webs at bearing mount), sanding lines, and gearbox with individual D77 traction motor and air duct details
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- Handbrake chain, chain pulley, and tension spring details on right sidesill, under the cab
- Separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Cab-roof “tripod” mount bell with air conduit
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
- 4,400-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers front and rear, vertical gauges front and rear, round gauges in tank sides, and “Y-branch” dual vertical breather pipes
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses, sand hatch covers, and 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
- EMD Demo scheme metallic blue color matched to TCP-259 EMD Demo Blue
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 22”
- Recommended Radius: 24”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 20-645 prime mover sounds
- Curve squeal and frog clank sounds*
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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