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SCALE TRAINS GE C39-8 DCC/LOC SOUND - NS 8596 (PHASE II)

SCALE TRAINS GE C39-8 DCC/LOC SOUND - NS 8596 (PHASE II)

$260.00 USD
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  • Road number 8596
    • Series: NS 8564-8613; built 1986
    • Era: as built (1986) through early 1990s 
    • Special high visibility yellow front plow
    • Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear class lights with lenses** 
    • Phase II - Cab with rounded-corner doors, embossed X-panels on the hood end and nose sides, stand-off radiator grills, and no vertical grab iron strips on the long hood end
    • Left side dynamic brake cab: high-capacity (triple blower) dynamic brake with see-through intake grilles
    • Dynamic brake cab roof with see-through etched metal triple panel grilles and visible blower motors
    • Right side dynamic brake cab: three hinged and latched doors
    • Wheel handbrake
  • Fully-assembled
  • Multiple road numbers
  • Prototypically operates as a LHF (Long Hood Forward) unit as ordered from GE (Note: "F" near the stairs on the long hood end denoting the front of the unit) *
  • Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
  • Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
  • Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear class lights with lenses** 
  • Printed and LED-illuminated front and rear number boards*
  • Small front and rear snowplows with wire grab irons
  • Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale standard Type E knuckle couplers
  • 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
  • See-through round-hole stepwell steps
  • Front and rear drop steps
  • GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
  • Short hood with blanked lower headlight housing 
  • Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
  • Cab sunshades
  • Sliding cab side windows
  • Dual wind deflector with mirror mounted fore and aft of sliding cab windows on both sides
  • Sunshades on both sides of cab
  • Dual Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antennas on cab roof (communication and End of Train EOT)
  • Nathan P135R24 horn mounted on engine compartment roof
  • See-through dynamic brake exhaust
  • 24 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
  • Early 6-panel radiator exhaust grilles
  • Exhaust silencer with extension
  • Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
  • GSC trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; separate brake cylinders, center axle shock snubber, brake lines and handbrake chain detail; and separate sanding lines and brackets
  • Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
  • Highly-detailed 4,400 gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, round and vertical fuel gauges
  • Air reservoirs with separate plumbing
  • Factory-applied wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, MU cables, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, underframe bell, and more
  • Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
  • Dual flywheels
  • All-wheel drive
  • All-wheel electrical pick-up
  • Printing and lettering legible 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
    • Two (2) cube-type speakers
    • 16-cylinder FDL-16 prime mover sound
    • ESU designed PowerPack with two (2) 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
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