Description
Railroad Short Name: CRIP
Features:
- Era: Mid to Late 1970s
- Series 340 to 381, built 9-12/1966, 01/1967
- RI 347 and 353
- Front EMD low plow with MU hose doors
- Red/yellow repaint with “billboard” hood lettering
- 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*
- 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
- Square-corner pilot face, front and rear
- Straight grabs over MU hose groups, front and rear
- “Early” angled deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, single per end, front and rear
- “Short” stepwells with nub-bottom pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck and pilot face-mounted stanchions, front and rear
- Positionable tapered (early) drop steps, front and rear
- Early style scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways, battery box top surfaces, and drop steps
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
- Early straight grabs and “flipped” 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 terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Single right rear cab step
- Early cab step guards (long taper)
- No hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
- Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields and standard armrests, both sides
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, cab blowers, rear wall, early seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Positionable cab side windows
- Mirrors / All-weather window
- Single “Salem” combination mirror & windshield wing mounted ahead of the cab side windows, both sides
- Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Nathan AirChime P5 (P135R24) horn mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
- Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and early inertial drain hole placement (wide spacing on engineer’s side, low on fireman’s side)
- No ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Early long handrail stanchion spacing with “short” stanchions at thin section of sidesill
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Non-dynamic housing
- Diamond-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
- Early rear sander door catch placement (inboard)
- 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
- GE-brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- ACI label placards included in polybag for optional installation by the modeler
- Standard 4 jacking pads, with 4 extra pads next to stepwells
- Non-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
- 3200-gallon fuel tank with early mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on right side, and early rear drain bar
- 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
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color:
- TCP-262 Rock Island Red
- 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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