Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- New paint scheme
- Era: 1997 to Early 2000s
- Series 700 to 799, built 6-9/1997
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front deck-mounted ditch lights**
- LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
- Short snowplow with grab irons and w/o MU doors
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Standard electrical cabinet access doors
- Battery cabinet access door without latch
- Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
- Tinted cab side windows
- Medium mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” communications antenna, small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna, and small “wedge” antenna
- Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
- Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
- Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
- Late dynamic brake exhaust
- Late angled engine cab profile with raised “dot” treadplate on centerline
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
- Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 26 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on the sides and top of the radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
- Tall latched access door on long hood end
- High-mounted rear sand fill
- Early “box” lifting lugs on front and rear ends of radiator wings
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on right front and left rear side frames, and flange lubricator sticks
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- No speed recorder
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 Centrifugal Air Filters
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank-mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets and connector pipe
- Early, square handbrake chain bracket
- Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, and more
- Motor with 5-pole, skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged GE 7FDL16 prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC.
*** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate
**** Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC.
Description
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- New paint scheme
- Era: 1997 to Early 2000s
- Series 700 to 799, built 6-9/1997
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
- No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front deck-mounted ditch lights**
- LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
- Short snowplow with grab irons and w/o MU doors
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Standard electrical cabinet access doors
- Battery cabinet access door without latch
- Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
- Tinted cab side windows
- Medium mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Large Sinclair “ice skate” communications antenna, small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna, and small “wedge” antenna
- Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
- Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
- Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
- Late dynamic brake exhaust
- Late angled engine cab profile with raised “dot” treadplate on centerline
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
- Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 26 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on the sides and top of the radiator compartment
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
- Tall latched access door on long hood end
- High-mounted rear sand fill
- Early “box” lifting lugs on front and rear ends of radiator wings
- Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on right front and left rear side frames, and flange lubricator sticks
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Rotating axle bearing caps
- No speed recorder
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 Centrifugal Air Filters
- 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank-mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets and connector pipe
- Early, square handbrake chain bracket
- Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, and more
- Motor with 5-pole, skew-wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores the model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged GE 7FDL16 prime mover sounds
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC.
*** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate
**** Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC.