Description
Railroad Short Name: ATSF
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains:
- New road numbers
- Era: 1980 to late 80s
- ATSF Series 5141 to 5169, built 9/10-1980
- Road numbers 5142, 5150, 5155, 5162
- As-Delivered “Yellowbonnet” (EMD-Style Santa Fe lettering)
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- LED-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- LED-illuminated front tricolor stand-off class lights***
- LED-illuminated Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Vapor Corporation cab roof mounted HVAC unit
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors 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 without lifting holes or slots
- Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Wide “blunt” front pilot 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 and round vent on upper right side
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers and horizontal stiffener rib
- 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 mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted with clearance bracket mounted on number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) on ground plane mounted on the dust bin
- 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
- Angled 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
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- “Aeroquip” brand speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HT-C trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Rearward 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 fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, 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:
- 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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