Description
Railroad Short Name: MILW
Features:
- Era: 1960s-70s
- Series MILW 2026-2046 (ex-MILW 153-173), built 01/1967
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Front EMD medium plow without MU hose doors, and “early” MU hose catch box with “Morton” round-hole footboards on rear
- 4-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 and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
- Square-corner pilot face with square access plate, front and rear
- Straight grabs over MU hose groups, front and rear
- “Early” angled deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, single per end, front and rear
- “Short” stepwells with nub-bottom pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck and pilot face-mounted stanchions, and no gangway chains (solid), front and rear
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- No drop steps
- 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 with terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Dual right rear cab steps
- Early cab step guards (long taper)
- Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrest on fireman’s side
- Detailed cab interior
- Tall mirror mounted ahead of cab window, fireman’s side, and 2-pane all-weather window, engineer’s side
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” 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 standard-range dynamic brake housing (short tapers), with road number plate
- See-through 48” standard-height dynamic brake fan housing with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with spiral-grill and center cap
- 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 stepwell ends of trucks
- Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
- Standard 4 jacking pads, with 4 extra pads next to stepwells
- Prime PM-516 E-Bell on number board housing
- 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
- 3000-gallon fuel tank with early mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on both sides, 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-111 Milwaukee Road Orange
- 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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