Description
Railroad Short Name: WP
Features:
- Era: 1970s
- Series WP 3527-3544, built 8-9/1971
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Fully-assembled
- Directional LED headlights
- LED-illuminated Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 “Gyralite” dual signal light mounted in low short hood*
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Tall “Western” style pilot plow with grab irons on front, and rear “late” MU hose catch box with “Morton” round-hole footboards
- 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 angled uncoupling lever without loop handles, and rear straight uncoupling lever without loop handles
- Square-corner pilot face, front and rear
- Full-width grab iron above uncoupling lever on rear pilot faces
- “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
- “Tall” stepwells with “zig-zag” pilots, front and rear
- End handrails with deck-mounted stanchions, front and rear
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Straight (late) drop steps, front and rear
- Scale sectioned Late treadplate detail on walkways, battery box top surfaces, and drop steps
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
- Late drop grabs and standard 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 non-terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
- Dual right rear cab steps
- Late cab step guards (short taper)
- 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
- Tall mirror mounted ahead of cab windows, both sides
- Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
- Lost-wax cast brass Nathan AirChime M5 (M5R24) 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 late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high on fireman’s side)
- Small ECAFB
- Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
- Late long handrail stanchion spacing with all “tall” stanchions overall
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Late standard-range dynamic brake housing (long tapers), with rectangular vent
- See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housing mounted on riser ring with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill
- Rectangular-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 left #1 axle
- Standard 4 jacking pads
- Frame-mounted 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 late 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
- 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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