Description
Railroad Short Name: DRGW
Features:
- Era: 1963 to Mid 1960s
- Series D&RGW 3014-3028, built 1-2/63, Phase Id
- Road numbers 3015, 3018, 3021 and 3023
- Small “Flying Rio Grande” scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Operating LED-illuminated MARS SBW-2-301 dual signal light in low short hood*
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed and LED-illuminated cab and rear number boards*
- “Straddle” (butterfly) type re-rail frogs
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch boxes with pointed debris deflector
- 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
- “Tall” 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
- No cab vents
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan M-3 horn; mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late single-panel inertial compartment with blanked filter inspection glasses
- Wire inertial air intake grills
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Standard-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan
- Late dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires through vertical vanes
- 6-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 door-style sand fill door on right side hood end
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
- Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with square and sloped 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
- 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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