Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: 1975 to Mid 1980s
- Road numbers 5387, 5390 and 5394
- Series 5386 to 5397: built Aug 1978
- Operating LED box-mounted Pyle-National 20585 Gyralite signal light in low short hood*
- “Straddle” type re-rail frogs
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without MU hose doors and grab irons
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Unnumbered
- Operating LED box-mounted Pyle-National 20585 Gyralite signal light in low short hood*
- “Straddle” type re-rail frogs
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow without MU hose doors and grab irons
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Welded ECAFB (late)
- Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
- Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
- Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
- Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
- Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
- Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
- Front late small deck extension
- Late front drop step (“fixed”)
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Front "tall" stepwells and rear “ladder” steps
- Standard EMD headlight in numberboard housing
- Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels and D&RGW blue flag bracket
- Original cab front door
- Standard Mirror mounted fore of cab side windows, both sides
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass Nathan M3R1 (“M-3”) three-chime horn, center rear of number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
- Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- See-through standard 48” dynamic brake fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- See-through radiator intake compartment
- Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets (outboard only
- Speed recorder third axle, right side
- Sill-mounted EFCO
- Frame-mounted bell
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
- Standard air tanks
- 4,000 gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, and 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 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
- Recommended radius: 11”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- One (1) cube-type speaker
- EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with E24 connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
