Description
Railroad Short Name: MP
Features:
- Era: 1975 to early 1980s
- Series 3164 to 3201; built 3/1975
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- 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 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 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 without loop handles
- As-delivered pilot faces without corner notches
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with solid end rails
- No drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and straight chain guard
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
- Rear cab side vent on right side
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from the rear of the cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Non-dynamic brake housing with batten strip
- “Chicken-wire” 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, early 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
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the nondynamic hatch on the fireman’s side
- Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 dual air filter set (can style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers on both ends of tank, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank, 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
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-120 MP Jenks Blue
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
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