Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
Features:
- Era: 2017 to 2018
- Series 4043 to 4073, rebuilt 7/17
- Road number 4047; ex-NS 8781
- Partial Horsehead paint scheme with primer-painted replacement cab
- Rebuilt by NS Roanoke Shops
- Fully re-painted at NS Juniata Shops in 11/18
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
- Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Printed cab-mounted number boards with separately controlled LED-illumination*
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating)
- Tall snowplow with MU hose openings and two (2) grab irons
- Semi-scale GE type coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Inside loop uncoupling levers with down brackets
- 4-step rear 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 without window; security padlock with hasp
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Battery cabinet access door with latch
- GE safety cab with four (4) side windows
- Right side cab under floor access doors: dual large louver panels per door
- Left side cab under floor access doors: bolted panel forward of the HVAC unit
- 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
- Tall mirror mounted fore and aft of sliding cab side windows on left side, Tall mirror mounted fore of sliding cab side windows on right side; additional small mirror on right side
- JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with Sinclair antennas
- Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, top two X panels same size, three lower X panels with 4 – 6 – 4 Bolt Pattern
- Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
- High-capacity dynamic brake exhaust (3-port)
- Rearward right-side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: 3 short doors with latches on the #2 door and narrow auxiliary cab filter box door with X panel in front
- Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Dual lifting lugs mounted to sides of clean air cab joint
- Early curved engine cab profile
- High mounted lift rings on engine cab power assembly doors
- Four door latches per side on exhaust cab doors
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P5 (P5R24 configuration) horn mounted on engine cab
- Early flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 22 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Right side radiator wing access door with looped center latch and no bolt detail on Panel surrounding the door
- Electronic Handbrake with panel to the rear of the brake wheel
- Convex stamped brakewheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
- High-mounted rear sand fill
- Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
- Left side long rail all stanchions early type
- Right side long rail all stanchions early type
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with reinforcement plate over center axle on right front and left rear side frames and separately applied brake cylinders, slngle bracket air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- No speed recorder
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
- Wabtec  994-500 series air dryer
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical wide spaced weld seams
- Fuel tank detail arrangement (front to back) right side – Fuel filler, EFCO, Digital Fuel Gauge
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
- Curved handbrake chain bracket
- Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- 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
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & Sound Equipped Features:
- ESU-LokSound 5 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” Functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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