Description
Railroad Short Name: NdeM
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains:
- Era: 1987 to 1998
- Series 13009-13030, built 1972, rebuilt 1987 by Morris Knudsen, Phase 1a1
- Road number 13009, ex-Milwaukee Road 3019/149
- “Tarjeteros” on sloped section of cab roof
- Road number 13020, ex-Milwaukee Road 3038/1168; 13021 ex-Milwaukee Road 3023/153; 13026 ex-Milwaukee Road 3027/142
- No “Tarjeteros” on sloped section of cab roof
- Operating LED tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Front and rear retrofitted “fixed” drop steps
- Rectangle walkway lights, mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash two Cab with bolted side window panels
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Leslie RS-3-LR Horn mounted on number board housing
- “Whip” antenna mounted to center of cab roof
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Early stand-off ECAFB
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Angled radiator fan grab iron
- Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and two inner and two outer brackets
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Deck mounted MU receptacle
- Notched pilot faces with reinforced lifting holes
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the cab on the fireman’s side
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
Locomotive Features:
- Directional LED headlights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with MU hose doors
- Large “blunt” front pilot anticlimber
- Late “fixed” rear drop step
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- 88″ low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
- Cab with bolted side window panels, sunshades, and long sunshade tracks
- Cab interior
- Leslie RS-3-L Horn mounted on the number board housing
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip and resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grills
- See-through standard 48″ radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Notched pilot faces with lifting slots
- Underbody frame rail
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- 4,000 gallon fuel tank
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Semi-scale ScaleTrains.com Type E knuckle couplers
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Pre-drilled for grab irons, coupler cut levers, MU cables, etc. – available in a separate upgrade kit
- Minimum radius: 18″
- Recommended radius: 22″
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- 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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