Description
Railroad Short Name: L&N
Features:
- Era: 1979 to early 1980s
- Series L&N 8000 to 8033; built 3-4/1979
- 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*
- LED-illuminated Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 Gyralite dual signal light mounted in number board housing*
- LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gaskets***
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch baskets
- 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 with high angled lifting slots
- Late deck-mounted MU receptacle with attached permanent MU cable and dummy receptacle on deck
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear late small deck extension
- Handrail set with outward facing 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
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
- 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 mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn mounted to cab roof
- “Whip” antenna mounted 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
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately-profiled extended-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
- 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)
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the conductor’s side
- 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 sides, 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”
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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