Description
Railroad Short Name: CNW
Features:
- Era: 1963 to 1986
- Series 810 to 823, built 4/69, Phase Ie
- Road numbers 812, 815, 817, 819, and 822
- “OY” Scheme – battery box doors, front kickplates, sides of the traction motor blower duct, and rear kick plate are painted yellow
- Road number 821
- “OY” Scheme Repaint – battery box doors, front kickplates, sides of the traction motor blower duct, and rear kick plate are painted green
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed and LED-illuminated cab and rear number boards*
- Equipped with ATS pickup shoes
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch boxes
- 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
- Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
- As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
- Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Short” stepwells
- Handrail set with center gangway chains
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD “dot” style pattern
- 81” GP30 low short hood with ratchet handbrake and square sand fill
- Hinged battery box doors with early hinges and narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on number board housing
- GP30 cab with increased length on left (fireman’s) side and inverted cab heater vents
- Tall mirrors mounted fore and aft of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie SU-3L-R horn mounted on right side cab eave
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late single-panel inertial compartment
- Wire inertial air intake grills
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Non-dynamic brake housing with blanked intakes and fan
- 7-horizontal rib radiator intake grills
- See-through front and rear 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fans; 36” pan-top center radiator fan
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Square sand fill hatch on top of long hood end
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
- Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; elliptical springs; end transom detail; separate sanding lines and brackets; and separate swing hanger detail
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to second axle on right front truck sideframe
- Frame-mounted bronze bell
- No underbody air filter
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank with vertical gauges and fuel fill in sill skirt; round gauges in fuel tank sides
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks 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
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color:
- TCP-108 C&NW Yellow
- TCP-109 C&NW Green
- Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
- Recommended radius: 11”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- One (1) cube-type speakers
- Prime mover sound
- 16-cylinder 567D3 prime mover sound
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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