Description
Railroad Short Name: BNSF
Features:
- Era: mid 1990s to mid 2000s
- BNSF Series 6898 to 6905, 6930 to 6944; ex-ATSF 5170 to 5192, built 11-12/1981
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Road number-specific repaint variations
- Road number 6903
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted with a clearance bracket mounted on the rear of the dynamic brake housing
- Graham-White 975-100 “Twin-Tower” air dryer assembly; retrofitted to rear of air reservoir on fireman’s side
- Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 dual air filter set (can style)
- Road number 6943
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted with a clearance bracket mounted on the rear of the dynamic brake housing
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- Road number 6932
- Retrofitted cab armrests on cab sides
- Replacement pan-type dynamic brake fans
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR24 horn with clearance bracket mounted on rear of dynamic brake housing
- Graham-White 975-100 “Twin-Tower” air dryer assembly; retrofitted to rear of air reservoir on fireman’s side
- Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 dual air filter set (can style)
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- 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*
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Vapor Corporation cab roof-mounted HVAC unit
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and 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; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
- Pilot face-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- Dummy multiple-unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot faces
- “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 wide louvers and horizontal stiffener rib
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Retrofitted headlight cut into nose; blanked number board light
- Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels
- Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and conduit on ground plane mounted on cab roof
- Small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (Locotrol/EOT) and conduit on ground plane on cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to the rear of the cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
- “Post-1980” exhaust silencer
- Accurately profiled “post-1980” extended-range (bulged) dynamic brake housing
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through 48” single-speed radiator “Q-Fans” with fan blades visible inside
- Angled 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
- GE type speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Spare knuckle boxes mounted to truck side frames
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges on stand 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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