Road Number-Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: mid-1971 to mid-1974
- Series 5000 to 5004, built 11/69-5/70
- Fully-assembled
- Dummy (non-illuminated) walkway stepladder light housings
- LED-illuminated tricolor flush-mounted front class lights with raised gaskets, and flush-mounted rear class lights with gaskets**
- LED-illuminated cab interior and control stand lighting*
- LED-illuminated Western-Cullen beacon*
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Extra step opening in pilot casting on each front corner
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffers 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
- Two drop grabs under nose door above uncoupling lever on front pilot face
- Low-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle on front underneath nose door
- Scale GE-style ‘nub’ treadplate detail on walkways
- Solid latched cab side equipment doors
- Rectangular cab vent towards front of cab, both sides
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- Tall mirrors mounted fore and aft of sliding cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard awning-style, photo-etched sunshades
- High-mounted rain gutter above cab side windows
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-5TRF horn mounted above conductor’s side forward radiator
- Cab roof-mounted "Firecracker" antenna and conduit
- Small lifting lug access panel on cab nose
- Large, padded armrest installed by Union Pacific
- Separately-applied underbody plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details, including Salem air filters
- 3 long access panels on right side of walkway
- Left side skirt-mounted reinforcement plates between access panels and fuel tank
- Sharp corner, body-mounted oil cooler cover
- Late style long handrails with ACI label mounted to a left and right side stanchion
- Factory-applied ladders, wire grab irons, coupler cut levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, trainline hoses with silver glad hands, lifting lugs, exhaust stack, bell, and sanding lines
- Highly detailed trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air pipes, and lost wax brass cast wheel slip indicators on left side frames
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
- Mixed SKF and Timken bearings
- Chicago Pneumatic speed recorder mounted on right side first axle
- Separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers front and rear, vertical gauges front and rear, round gauge recessed in engineer’s side
- Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum radius: 22”
- Recommended Radius: 24”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Single ESU-designed speaker housing with built-in passive radiator
- Dual FDL-12 prime mover sounds
- Curve squeal and frog clank sounds*
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
Description
Road Number-Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: mid-1971 to mid-1974
- Series 5000 to 5004, built 11/69-5/70
- Fully-assembled
- Dummy (non-illuminated) walkway stepladder light housings
- LED-illuminated tricolor flush-mounted front class lights with raised gaskets, and flush-mounted rear class lights with gaskets**
- LED-illuminated cab interior and control stand lighting*
- LED-illuminated Western-Cullen beacon*
- Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
- Extra step opening in pilot casting on each front corner
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffers 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
- Two drop grabs under nose door above uncoupling lever on front pilot face
- Low-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle on front underneath nose door
- Scale GE-style ‘nub’ treadplate detail on walkways
- Solid latched cab side equipment doors
- Rectangular cab vent towards front of cab, both sides
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- Tall mirrors mounted fore and aft of sliding cab side window, both sides of cab
- Standard awning-style, photo-etched sunshades
- High-mounted rain gutter above cab side windows
- Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-5TRF horn mounted above conductor’s side forward radiator
- Cab roof-mounted "Firecracker" antenna and conduit
- Small lifting lug access panel on cab nose
- Large, padded armrest installed by Union Pacific
- Separately-applied underbody plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details, including Salem air filters
- 3 long access panels on right side of walkway
- Left side skirt-mounted reinforcement plates between access panels and fuel tank
- Sharp corner, body-mounted oil cooler cover
- Late style long handrails with ACI label mounted to a left and right side stanchion
- Factory-applied ladders, wire grab irons, coupler cut levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, trainline hoses with silver glad hands, lifting lugs, exhaust stack, bell, and sanding lines
- Highly detailed trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air pipes, and lost wax brass cast wheel slip indicators on left side frames
- Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
- Mixed SKF and Timken bearings
- Chicago Pneumatic speed recorder mounted on right side first axle
- Separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers front and rear, vertical gauges front and rear, round gauge recessed in engineer’s side
- Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum radius: 22”
- Recommended Radius: 24”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Single ESU-designed speaker housing with built-in passive radiator
- Dual FDL-12 prime mover sounds
- Curve squeal and frog clank sounds*
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts