Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
Road Number Specific Features:
- Road numbers 8552 and 8559
- Series: NS 8552-8563; built 1984
- Era: as built (1986) through early 1990s
- Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear class lights with lenses**
- Phase Ib – Cab with rounded-corner doors, no embossed X-panels on the hood end or nose sides, stand-off radiator grills, and vertical grab iron strips on the long hood end
- Left side dynamic brake cab: standard (dual blower) dynamic brake with see-through intake grilles
- Dynamic brake cab roof with see-through etched metal dual panel grilles and visible blower motors
- Right side dynamic brake cab: front two hinged and latched doors and bolted rear panel
- Ratchet handbrake
Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Prototypically operates as a LHF (Long Hood Forward) unit as ordered from GE (Note: “F” near the stairs on the long hood end denoting the front of the unit) *
- Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear class lights with lenses**
- Printed and LED-illuminated front and rear number boards*
- Small front and rear snowplows with wire grab irons
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale standard Type E knuckle couplers
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Front and rear drop steps
- GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
- Short hood with blanked lower headlight housing
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- Cab sunshades
- Sliding cab side windows
- Dual wind deflector with mirror mounted fore and aft of sliding cab windows on both sides
- Sunshades on both sides of cab
- Dual Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antennas on cab roof (communication and End of Train EOT)
- Nathan P135R24 horn mounted on engine compartment roof
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- 24 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Early 6-panel radiator exhaust grilles
- Exhaust silencer with extension
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
- GSC trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; separate brake cylinders, center axle shock snubber, brake lines and handbrake chain detail; and separate sanding lines and brackets
- Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
- Highly-detailed 4,400 gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, round and vertical fuel gauges
- Air reservoirs with separate plumbing
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, MU cables, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, underframe bell, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU-LokSound 5 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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