Description
Railroad Short Name: SOU
Features:
- Series 2585 to 2644; built 9-10:63
- Road number 2585, 2588, 2592, 2596, and 2606
- Era: 1970s to 1990s
- 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**
- High short hood and rear number boards
- Three (3) lost-wax brass cast Southern-style overhead walkway lights (non-operating)
- 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”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
- Dual cube-type speakers
- EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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