Description
Railroad Short Name: MKT
Features:
- Era: early 1980s
- Series 619 to 628; built 7/1980
- Road numbers 620 and 625
- Series 629 to 636; built 8-9/1981
- Road numbers 629, 632 and 635
- Fully-assembled
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- 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 tricolor stand-off class lights***
- LED-illuminated Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with 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
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on right side
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with welded 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 at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Front mounted lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn mounted cab numberboard housing with all chimes facing forward
- Rear mounted lost-wax brass cast Leslie S25 horn mounted on rear of long hood with single chime facing rearward
- Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to rear of cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
- “Post-1980” exhaust silencer
- Accurately-profiled “post-1980” extended-range (bulged) dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through 48” single-speed radiator “Q-Fans” with fan blades visible inside
- Drop grab radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- 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
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorders mounted to first and third axles on left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-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 dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much 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
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-318 MKT Green, TCP-319 MKT Yellow
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC Ready Features:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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