Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter GP30 Southern “NC Transportation Museum” #2601

Description

Railroad Short Name: SOU

Features:

• Series 2585 to 2644; built 9-10:63
• Road number 2601
  • Era: late 1990s to present
  • North Carolina Transportation Museum Version
  • Modified “Dulux” paint scheme
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED-illuminated “hemisphere” walkway lights on hood ends, and at end of raised walkway duct*
• Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with lenses and raised gaskets**
• Three (3) lost-wax brass cast Southern-style overhead walkway lights (non-operating)
• High short hood and rear number boards
• Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
• 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• As-delivered pilot faces with uncoupling lever loop notches
• Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle with battery charging receptacle
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• Handrail set with center gangway chains
• Front and rear standard drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD early “X” style pattern
• 81” GP30 high short hood with ratchet handbrake and round sand fill
• Hinged battery box doors with early hinges and narrow louvers
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on high short hood
• GP30 cab with increased length on left (fireman’s) side and inverted cab heater vents
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• No cab vents
• Sliding cab side windows
• Tall clear wind wings with mirror at top mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Southern/NS sun awning
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P5 P12345; mounted on cab roof
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on top of short hood
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Late single-panel inertial compartment
• Stamped inertial air intake grills with vertical stiffeners
• Tall turbo exhaust stack
• Extended-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan
• Late See-through dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires through vertical vanes
• 7-horizontal rib radiator intake grills
• See-through front and rear 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fans; 36” pan-top center radiator fan
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Round sand fill cap on top of long hood end
• Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
• Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; elliptical springs; end transom detail; separate sanding lines and brackets; and separate swing hanger detail
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder mounted to second axle on right front truck sideframe
• High short hood mounted lost-wax brass cast bronze bell
• No underbody air filter
• 2,600-gallon fuel tank with dual staggered vertical gauges and fuel fill in sill skirt; round gauges in fuel tank sides
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, photoetched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks, sand hatch covers and more
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DCC Ready Features:

• Operable on DC layouts
• DCC-ready with 21-pin connector