Description
Railroad Short Name: CR
Locomotive Features:
- Era: Mid-1990s-Early 2000s
- Series 6441 to 6482, built 9-11/1978
- Road number 6450:
- Lost-wax brass Leslie RS-3L-R horn with anti-debris covers
- Large Conrail “Quality” logos on hood
- Standard bolted battery box door on left side with short louvers; bolted and latched Conrail-style “split” battery box door on right side to accommodate Automatic Train Control (ATC) box on top of battery box
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated front and rear red marker lights***
- Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with
raised gaskets*** - Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Flange lubrication cabinet
- Two-strap Automatic Train Control (ATC) box
- Front and rear EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors, 3rd rail notches, and grab irons
- 3-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
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
- End handrail set with anticlimber front railings, and outward-facing rear end stanchion mounting brackets with gangway safety chain on rear
- Rear late “fixed” drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake; nose top and side grab irons repositioned to opposed side for Automatic Train Control (ATC) box clearance.
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with 13-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
- Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror mounted fore of cab side window, on both sides of cab
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted to cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through low-profile 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Angled radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed Flexicoil-C sideframes with Hyatt bearing caps, high mounted brake cylinders, outer sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air brake duct details
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- GE type speed recorder mounted to center axle on left front
- Forward-facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil-C trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Flush-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical 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”
Sound Features:
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- 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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