Description
Railroad Short Name: SOU
Features:
- Era: 1970s to 1980s
- Series 2585 to 2644; built 9-10:63
- Road number 2585, 2588, 2592, 2596, and 2606
- Partial barricade striping
- Road number 2585, 2588, 2592, 2596, and 2606
- Full barricade striping
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Class lights (non-operating)
- High short hood mounted lost-wax brass cast bronze bell
- Printed and LED-illuminated high short hood and rear number boards*
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
- 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 with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- As-delivered pilot faces with uncoupling lever loop notches
- Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle with battery charging 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 high short hood with ratchet handbrake and round 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 high short hood
- 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
- Southern/NS sun awning
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan P5 P12345; mounted on cab roof
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on top of short hood
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late single-panel inertial compartment
- Stamped inertial air intake grills with vertical stiffeners
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Extended-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan
- Late dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires through vertical vanes
- 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
- Round sand fill cap 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 first axle on left front truck sideframe
- No underbody air filter
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank with dual staggered 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”
DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:
- Operable on DC layouts
- DCC ready with E24 connector
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