Description
Railroad Short Name: EL
Locomotive Features:
- Era: mid 1970s to late 1970s
- Series 3621-3634, built 5/68
- Phase IIb1
- Road number 3621
- Gray Roof
- Standard E-L paint scheme
- Replaced Maroon sunshade on left cab side. Original gray sunshade on right side
- Full-width MU catch tray w/ skidplate, front and rear
- Low-profile dust bin
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (low-mount brake cylinder truck on front, high-mount brake cylinder truck on rear) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 3623
- Black Roof (black carries down onto angled portion of cab roof, and stops short of corner radius on long hood)
- Standard E-L paint scheme
- “Safety First” logos on nose corners
- Maintenance stencils on cab side corners
- Full-width MU catch tray w/ skidplate, front and rear
- Low-profile dust bin
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 3625
- Gray Roof
- Standard E-L paint scheme
- Black inner handrail stanchions on end
- Black MU stands
- Full-width MU catch tray w/ skidplate, front and rear
- Low-profile dust bin
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder truck on front, low-mount brake cylinder truck on rear) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 3628
- Black Roof (black only on top surface of cab roof and numberboard, and stops short of corner radius on long hood)
- Standard E-L paint scheme
- Black handrail stanchions on end
- Black MU stands
- Full-width MU catch tray w/ skidplate, front and rear
- Low-profile dust bin
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high/low-mount brake cylinder truck on front, high-mount brake cylinder truck on rear) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Road number 3631
- Gray Roof
- Standard E-L paint scheme
- Maintenance stencils on cab side corners
- Full-width MU catch tray w/ skidplate, front and rear
- Low-profile dust bin
- Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
- Printed and LED-lighted number boards
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn on low-profile bracket above engineer’s front windshield
- Low profile dust bin
- Low profile exhaust stack
- Low profile early (short forward taper) standard-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents, and “T” vent on top of roof – confirm
- Low-profile fan housings
- Front and rear full-width MU catch tray with skidplate
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- 81” low short hood without handbrake
- Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
- Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- Sliding cab windows
- Standard EMD arm rests
- Tall square corner clear wind wings with mirrors at the bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades mounted on long sunshade tracks
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood details
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- Small ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
- “Chickenwire” radiator intake grilles with diamond-pattern mesh screens
- Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
- Short walkway duct with four short stanchions
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- “Modified” 3-Hose MU hose clusters (4th hose from each group removed)
- Late deck-mounted MU receptacle
- Short “zig-zag” pilot face
- Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Tab-mount EFCO button
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler and vertical fuel gauge per side
- Speed recorder second axle, right side
- Factory-applied detail parts: 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
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operable using DC power pack
- DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** During DC operation, class lights illuminate in white. Access to other colors and the ability to change colors requires an ESU DCC decoder while operating in DCC
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