Description
Railroad Short Name: UP
Features:
- Era: 1995 to early-2000s
- Series 9740 to 9834; ex-C&NW 8636 to 8730, built 01-05/1994
- Road Number 9748
- Winged nose logo
- Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
- Nose door without window
- Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3HAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
- Early Hi-Ad trucks with reinforcement bulge with cantilever struts on the right front and left rear side frames
- Speed recorder on the second axle on both sides
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of the locomotive*
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front pilot face-mounted ditch lights**
- LED-illuminated low-mount cab number boards*
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- One-piece nose top grab irons
- Standard electrical cabinet access doors
- 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 desktop controls
- Tinted cab side windows
- Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on the right side
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna and small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna
- Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
- Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
- Early dynamic brake exhaust
- Early curved engine cab profile
- Early 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 early radiator door grille pattern, all the same height
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: short, short, short 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
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 Centrifugal Air Filters
- No air dryer
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
- Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked”
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank-mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
- Early, square 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 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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