Description
Railroad Short Name: UP
Features:
- Era: Mid 1990s – Early 2000s
- UP Series mixed, built 2-3/78 (ex-SP Series 8357 – 837)
- Road numbers 4425 (ex-SP 8361) and 4429 (ex-SP 8371)
- Data label and lettering placement variations
- Plated over front and blanked rear red LED Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites
- Blanked class lights with bolted plates front and rear
- Round walkway lights (non-operating)
- 123” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
- SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and modified “L” front window
- “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual
- Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Extended-range dynamic brakes
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets; angled rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Fully-assembled
- Operating LED-illuminated front deck-mounted ditch lights*
- Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
- Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
- Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
- Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
- Front pilot anticlimber
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Front “tall” stepwells and rear “ladder” steps
- SP nose headlight package
- Cab front door with additional door lock at top of door
- Tall clear wind wings with angled top corners mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass Leslie RS-3L-R three-chime horn on clearance bracket, relocated to long hood roof
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- See-through standard 48” dynamic brake fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- See-through radiator intake compartment
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets (outboard only
- Speed recorder first axle, left side
- Four-hole SP jacking pads
- Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
- Sill-mounted EFCO
- Standard air tanks
- 4,400 gallon fuel tank with reinforced tank edges where sides meet the tank ends, dual fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, round gauge on stand and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 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 Features:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with E24 connector
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