Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
Era: 1990s
Series 7500 to 7502; ex-6340 to 6363 (1st); ex-BN 6352 (1st), built 3/1973
Road number 7502
Burlington Northern wreck-rebuild “B-Unit” high short hood with relocated dynamic brake housing
Fully-assembled
LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
Blanked front class lights with round plate and rear class lights with gasket
Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; four inner and two outer mounting brackets
Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
"Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
Front and rear early small deck extension
Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
Front and rear standard drop steps
Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
High front headlight
Accurate hood door and long hood detail
Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
Early “stand-off” ECAFB
Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
Standard turbo exhaust stack
Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
“Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
Curved radiator fan grab iron
Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
Rust-color painted wheelsets
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face and on left side fuel tank
Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
Sill-mount EFCO
Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), vertical breather pipe, and waste retention tank
Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
Dual flywheels
All-wheel drive
All-wheel electrical pick-up
Directional LED headlights
Printing and lettering legible even 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 EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
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.
*** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and change the colors with an appropriately programmed ESU decoder while operating using DCC.
**** “PowerPack” feature is only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout.
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
Era: 1990s
Series 7500 to 7502; ex-6340 to 6363 (1st); ex-BN 6352 (1st), built 3/1973
Road number 7502
Burlington Northern wreck-rebuild “B-Unit” high short hood with relocated dynamic brake housing
Fully-assembled
LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
Blanked front class lights with round plate and rear class lights with gasket
Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; four inner and two outer mounting brackets
Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
"Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
Front and rear early small deck extension
Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
Front and rear standard drop steps
Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
High front headlight
Accurate hood door and long hood detail
Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
Early “stand-off” ECAFB
Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
Standard turbo exhaust stack
Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
“Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
Curved radiator fan grab iron
Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
Rust-color painted wheelsets
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face and on left side fuel tank
Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
Sill-mount EFCO
Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), vertical breather pipe, and waste retention tank
Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
Dual flywheels
All-wheel drive
All-wheel electrical pick-up
Directional LED headlights
Printing and lettering legible even 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 EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
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.
*** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and change the colors with an appropriately programmed ESU decoder while operating using DCC.
**** “PowerPack” feature is only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout.