Description
Railroad Short Name: BN
Features:
- Era: mid 1980s to early 1990s
- Series 8090 to 8181; 5-7/1980
- Road number 8094
- Blanked front class lights with round plate, blanked rear class lights with gasket
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
- Road number 8118
- Blanked front class lights with round plate, blanked rear class lights with gasket
- Small mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
- Road number 8134
- Blanked front class lights with round plate, blanked rear class lights with gasket
- Tall clear wind wing with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on right side of cab, Small mirror mounted for of cab side window on left side of cab
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- 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
- LED-illuminated Prime PM-8911 Stratolite beacon*
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- 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 bottom-shelf 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; inward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Rear late “fixed” drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 88″ low short hood with ratchet handbrake and straight handbrake chain guard and round vent on lower right side
- BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- (tall clear wind wings removed here and broken down above)
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3K-R horn mounted on the cab
- Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab and small can EOT antenna added on front left numberboard housing
- 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” standard-range 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
- Speed recorder mounted to third axle on right front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- 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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