Description
Railroad Short Name: SOO
Features:
- Era: 1974 to early 1980s
- Soo Series 775 to 785; 10/1974
- Road number-specific variations in data labels and placement
- Road number 775
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn with reversed forward trumpets on angled cab roof, right side
- LED-illuminated Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
- Road numbers 780, 781, 782, and 786
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn on angled cab roof, right side
- LED-illuminated Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
- Road number 778
- Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn on angled cab roof, right side
- LED-illuminated Saturn 6551 strobe Light*
- Front walkways painted red
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and 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*
- “Straddle” type re-rail frogs
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with grab irons
- 4-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
- “Short” 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 mounted fore and aft of cab side window on left side of cab
- 2-panel all-weather windows mounted on right cab side
- Standard EMD sunshade with long sunshade track on left side
- 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
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- “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 third axle on left front
- Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only) and angled 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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