Description
Railroad Short Name: UP
Features:
- Era: Mid-1960s
- Series UP 800-874, built 7-10/1962, Phase Ib2
- Road numbers 800, 812, 820, 835, 852, and 863
- UP “Dependable Transportation” Scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed and LED-illuminated cab and rear number boards*
- 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 dual multiple unit (MU) receptacle stands with field loop receptacles
- “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, chain guard, 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 mirrors mounted fore and aft of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- UP canvas sun awnings
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie S-3-LR horn with clearance bracket, mounted between first and second radiator fans
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early 2-panel inertial compartment
- Wire inertial air intake grills
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Standard-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan on riser ring
- 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 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
- 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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