Description
Railroad Short Name: DMIR
Features:
- Era: Late 80s – Early 90s
- Series 209 to 213, built March 1975
- DM&IR 209
- Saturn 6550 cab roof strobe
- Sans-serif red road number on cab, and red Missabe hood lettering
- Black anti-skid on cab, low hood, and walkways
- Forward-placed Missabe logo on low hood
- Maroon cab roof antenna
- DM&IR 211
- Tomar 804-1274 cab roof strobe
- Serif maroon road number on cab, and maroon Missabe hood lettering
- Partial black anti-skid on cab and low hood
- Rearward-placed Missabe logo on low hood
- Aluminum cab roof antenna
- RS-8 class and 211 road number stencils on fuel tank
- White barricade striping on MU catch boxes
- DM&IR 212
- Tomar 804-1274 cab roof strobe
- Sans-serif (Arial) red road number on cab, and red Missabe hood lettering
- Partial black anti-skid on low hood
- Forward-placed Missabe logo on low hood
- Maroon cab roof antenna
- “Crooked” Missabe arrow and striping on left side
- DM&IR 213
- Saturn 6551 cab roof strobe
- Serif maroon road number on cab, and maroon Missabe hood lettering
- Partial black anti-skid on low hood
- Forward-placed Missabe logo on low hood
- Maroon cab roof antenna
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground light on left side 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 Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 Gyralite dual signal light (combined signal light and headlight) mounted on number board housing*
- LED-illuminated front and rear tricolor flush-mounted with raised gasket class lights***
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Front and rear full width multiple unit (MU) hose catch tray
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- As-delivered pilot faces with no lifting slots
- “Tall” 4-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with solid end rails
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake, angled chain guard, and hot water heater louvers on left side
- Sand fillers mounted in square recesses on hood ends
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Dash 2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) window panels and hot water heater louvers on right front
- No cab vents
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall mirrors mounted fore and aft of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3K-R horn with “snow-cone” debris covers on forward trumpets mounted on the cab
- “Whip” antenna mounted on cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Dual tall exhaust stacks
- Accurately profiled standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Square Paper Air Filter (PAF) housing
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheesets in service
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to third axle on left front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early) with extra pads adjacent to stepwells
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED 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”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Non-turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPak” with two super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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