Description
Railroad Short Name: B&O
Features:
- Era: Late 1970s to Early 1980s
- Series B&O 4000 to 4064, built 8-11/71
- B&O 4008
- Front tall “Rock Pilot”, and rear short angled MU hose tray
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with “P”-shaped extensions
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and “retractable” type armrests (user-applied parts included with model)
- Toilet vent pipe ahead of cab, with exhaust pipe on number board housing
- Rectangular vent added to left side of cab
- Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn (low-profile manifold) mounted on number board housing
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to right #2 axle
- B&O 4014
- Front tall “Rock Pilot”, and rear short angled MU hose tray
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with “P”-shaped extensions
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and “retractable” type armrests (user-applied parts included with model)
- Toilet vent pipe ahead of cab, with exhaust pipe on number board housing
- Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn (low-profile manifold) mounted on number board housing
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- ACI placards mounted on sidesills
- B&O 4023
- Front tall “Rock Pilot”, and rear short angled MU hose tray
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with “P”-shaped extensions
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and “retractable” type armrests (user-applied parts included with model)
- Rectangular vent added to left side of cab
- Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- “Salem” small cab awning with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn (low-profile manifold) mounted on number board housing
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- B&O 4054
- Front tall “Rock Pilot”, and rear short angled MU hose tray
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with “P”-shaped extensions
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and “retractable” type armrests (user-applied parts included with model)
- Toilet vent pipe ahead of cab, with exhaust pipe on number board housing
- Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- “Salem” small cab awning with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn (low-profile manifold) mounted on number board housing
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated tri-color, flush-mounted front and rear class lights with raised gaskets
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
- Square-corner pilot face, front and rear
- “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
- “Tall” stepwells with “tab” pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck-mounted stanchions, front and rear
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Positionable straight (late) drop steps, front and rear
- Late style scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways, battery box top surfaces, and drop steps
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
- Early cab sub-base doors with non-terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Dual right rear cab steps
- Late cab step guards (short taper)
- No hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
- Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, cab blowers, rear wall, early seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Positionable cab side windows
- Standard “whip” communications antenna base mounted to cab roof
- Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high on fireman’s side)
- Small ECAFB
- Screened spare knuckle basket on walkway behind ECAFB
- Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
- Late long handrail stanchion spacing with all “tall” stanchions overall
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Late standard-range dynamic brake housing (long tapers), with rectangular vent
- See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housing mounted on riser ring with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill
- Dynamic brake intakes with see-through intake vanes, and resistor grid detail inside of the housing
- Rectangular-mesh radiator intake screening
- See-through standard-height 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
- Separately-applied radiator core detail mounted inside of long hood, visible under radiator fans
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight and standard housing
- Late rear sander door catch placement (outboard)
- Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
- Detailed Blomberg-B truck frames (LFM-cast) with Hyatt bearing housings, separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
- Separately-applied flexible neoprene sanding lines at both ends of trucks
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
- Standard 4 jacking pads
- Dynamic housing side-mounted bell with air conduit
- Salem-brand #824-170 and #818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
- Separately-applied brake vent regulator valve and plumbing detail on underbody
- 3600-gallon fuel tank with late mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on right side, fuel tank drain bar condensation boxes, and late front and rear drain bars
- Separately-applied fuel fillers, drains, and breather piping on fuel tanks
- Separately-applied engine oil sump drain fitting with hose
- Separately-applied radiator water drain fitting on underbody
- Separately-applied truck air line plumbing on underbody above each truck, both sides
- Separately-applied wireform grab irons, wireform lift rings, etched 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-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 & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 16-645 prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors****
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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