Description
Railroad Short Name: CNW
Features:
- Era: 1980s – 1990s
- Series C&NW 5500-5537; ex-NYC 3010-3049, built Nov/Dec 1965
- “OY” Scheme with C&NW “System” logo
- C&NW 5500
- Replacement bearing pedestal liners
- White corner step edges and kickplates
- C&NW 5504
- Green air reservoirs
- White corner step edges and yellow kickplates
- C&NW 5520
- Excalibur standard-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
- Yellow-painted nose bell
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Tomar 804-1274 Strobe (non-operating)
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
- Body-mounted knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible, molded in a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
- Front EMD medium plow without MU hose doors
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with straight rod extensions
- Notched-corner pilot face with square access plate, front and rear
- “Early” angled deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, dual per end, front and rear
- “Short” stepwells with nub-bottom pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck and pilot face-mounted stanchions, front and rear
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Tapered (early) drop steps, front and rear
- Scale sectioned Early treadplate detail on walkways, battery box top surfaces, and drop steps
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
- Early straight grabs and “flipped” nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
- Early cab sub-base doors without reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Single right rear cab step
- Early cab step guards (long taper)
- No hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
- Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrests, both sides
- Detailed cab interior
- “Salem” combination mirror & windshield wing mounted ahead of the cab side windows, both sides
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
- Excalibur low-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
- Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and early inertial drain hole placement (wide spacing on engineer’s side, low on fireman’s side)
- Small ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Early long handrail stanchion spacing with “short” stanchions at thin section of sidesill
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Early extended-range dynamic brake housing (short tapers), with retrofitted long contactor door
- See-through 48” standard-height dynamic brake fan housing with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill
- Diamond-mesh radiator intake screening
- See-through standard-height 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight and standard housing
- Early rear sander door catch placement (inboard)
- Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
- Detailed Blomberg-B truck frames (LFM-cast) with Hyatt bearing housings, separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
- Separately-applied flexible sanding lines at both ends of trucks
- “Aeroquip” brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to right #2 axle
- ATC Pickup shoe on #1 axle, right side
- Standard 4 jacking pads
- Nose-mounted Western Cullen-Hayes “Gong” Bell
- Salem-brand #824-170 and #818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
- Separately-applied brake vent regulator valve and plumbing detail on underbody
- 3600-gallon fuel tank with early mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on right side, and early rear drain bar
- Separately-applied wireform grab irons, etched windshield wipers, trainline hoses, sand hatch covers, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color:
- TCP-109 C&NW Green
- TCP-353 C&NW Early Yellow
- Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
- Recommended Radius: 11”
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- One (1) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged EMD 16-645 prime mover sounds
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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