Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
All-new model
New roadname
New paint scheme
New road numbers
Era: 1953 to Early 1960s
Series 565 to 572, built Jan-Feb 1953
Fully-assembled
Multiple road numbers
LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
LED-illuminated walkway lights on hood ends *
LED-illuminated, tri-color front and rear, door-mounted class light housings (SD7)**
Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
High short hood and long hood end number boards
“Straddle” (butterfly) type re-rail frogs
4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
Semi-scale “cast” style coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle, left side
Standard SD7 stepwells (inset top and middle step) with poling pockets
“Pipe” style handrail stanchions with end gangways with chain
Front and rear standard drop steps
Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD “dot” style pattern
Standard high short hood
Standard sub-base
Standard sidesills with louvered access doors on right side
Early-style EMD LED-illuminated headlight housing with lenses, front and rear
Cab with “retractable” type armrests
Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and early control stand, long-hood forward operation
Sliding cab side windows
No mirrors
Cab drip rails
Lost-wax brass cast Leslie S-3-L horn mounted to cab roof
No radio antennas
Standard bolted electrical cabinet roof hatch
Separately-applied, tapered exhaust stacks
Non-dynamic brake housing
Separately-applied photoetched radiator intake screens with intake shutters underneath
See-through 36” fan housings with separate fans, radiator core detail, and hood roof plumbing
Winterization hatch over #1 radiator fan
Separately-applied sand fill hatches
Detailed EMD Flex-i-Coil “C1” trucks with separately applied brake plumbing, brake cylinders, and flexible neoprene rubber sanding lines
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Standard EMD bell mounted to bracket on non-dynamic housing.
Underbody air filter details
Single 1,200-gallon fuel tank mounted to the rear with single sight glass per side, and single 1,200-gallon fuel tank to the front
Factory-applied wire grab irons, end ladders, photoetched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, signal hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks with plumbing, 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 70, 83, and 100 rail
Packaging safely stores model
Minimum radius: 18”
Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
Two (2) cube-type speakers
Prime mover sound
16-cylinder 567B prime mover sound
ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:
Operable on DC layouts
DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors requires an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
***“PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
All-new model
New roadname
New paint scheme
New road numbers
Era: 1953 to Early 1960s
Series 565 to 572, built Jan-Feb 1953
Fully-assembled
Multiple road numbers
LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
LED-illuminated walkway lights on hood ends *
LED-illuminated, tri-color front and rear, door-mounted class light housings (SD7)**
Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
High short hood and long hood end number boards
“Straddle” (butterfly) type re-rail frogs
4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
Semi-scale “cast” style coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle, left side
Standard SD7 stepwells (inset top and middle step) with poling pockets
“Pipe” style handrail stanchions with end gangways with chain
Front and rear standard drop steps
Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD “dot” style pattern
Standard high short hood
Standard sub-base
Standard sidesills with louvered access doors on right side
Early-style EMD LED-illuminated headlight housing with lenses, front and rear
Cab with “retractable” type armrests
Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and early control stand, long-hood forward operation
Sliding cab side windows
No mirrors
Cab drip rails
Lost-wax brass cast Leslie S-3-L horn mounted to cab roof
No radio antennas
Standard bolted electrical cabinet roof hatch
Separately-applied, tapered exhaust stacks
Non-dynamic brake housing
Separately-applied photoetched radiator intake screens with intake shutters underneath
See-through 36” fan housings with separate fans, radiator core detail, and hood roof plumbing
Winterization hatch over #1 radiator fan
Separately-applied sand fill hatches
Detailed EMD Flex-i-Coil “C1” trucks with separately applied brake plumbing, brake cylinders, and flexible neoprene rubber sanding lines
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Standard EMD bell mounted to bracket on non-dynamic housing.
Underbody air filter details
Single 1,200-gallon fuel tank mounted to the rear with single sight glass per side, and single 1,200-gallon fuel tank to the front
Factory-applied wire grab irons, end ladders, photoetched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, signal hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks with plumbing, 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 70, 83, and 100 rail
Packaging safely stores model
Minimum radius: 18”
Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
Two (2) cube-type speakers
Prime mover sound
16-cylinder 567B prime mover sound
ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:
Operable on DC layouts
DCC-ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors requires an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
***“PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout