Description
Railroad Short Name: DRGW
- Era: 1978 through mid-1980s
- Series 5389-5397, built 8/78
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED box-mounted Pyle-National 20585 Gyralite signal light in low short hood*
- Operating LED front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights**
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Directional LED headlights
- Specially designed low-profile drivetrain completely hides the rear gear tower and driveshaft
- Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail
- See-through etched-metal radiator intake screens
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grilles with radiator shutters visible underneath
- “Straddle” type re-rail frogs painted yellow
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with grab irons and without MU hose doors
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Front late small deck extension
- Early front drop step (pivoting)
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets, rear anticlimber, and chain
- Handrail ends and step faces painted white
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels and D&RGW blue flag bracket
- Standard EMD headlight in numberboard housing
- Lost-wax brass Nathan M3R1 (“M-3”) three-chime horn, center rear of number board housing
- Original cab front door
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab windows
- Standard mirror mounted fore of cab side windows, both sides
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Accurate hood door and long hood molded details
- Extended-range dynamic brakes
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Hood door warning label stenciling and sidesill equipment trust plate
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets (outboard only), and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Speed recorder third axle, right side
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- Air tanks with fluid drain pipes on sides of fuel tank
- 4,000 gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank 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
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- 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”
Locomotive Features
- Fully assembled (except undecorated)
- Specially designed low-profile drivetrain with completely hidden rear gear tower and driveshaft
- Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor details
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
- Multiple road numbers
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab windows
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
- Directional LED headlights
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18″
- Recommended radius: 22″
DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature
- Operable using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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