Description
Railroad Short Name: BNSF
Features:
- Era: mid 1990s to mid 2000s
- BNSF Series 7029-7048, 8010-8029; ex-BN 7029-7048, 8010-8029, built 2-3/1978
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Road number-specific repaint variations
- Road number 7040
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-K horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
- Additional access door on right side dynamic brake housing
- Road number 7047
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-K horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
- Additional access door on right side dynamic brake housing
- Road number 8010
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR24 horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated front deck mounted ditch lights**
- LED-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- Blanked front class lights with round plate
- Blanked rear class lights with gasket
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with grab irons
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers, painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and four inner mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
- Handrail set with anticlimber front; outward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Rear late “fixed” drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on lower right side
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Retrofitted headlight cut into nose; blanked number board light
- Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Small mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Tall Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab, short EOT “firecracker” mounted on number board housing
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to the rear of the cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front, additional speed recorder mounted to third axle on right front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
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