Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: Mid-1960s
- Series UP 727B to 739B (Passenger), built 6-7/1963, Phase IIa
- “B” unit high short hood with ratchet brake and chain guard, and steam generator intake, vent and exhaust detail on roof
- Extended raised walkways with water fill hatches at ends
- Passenger “B” units were also used in freight service
- UP “Dependable Transportation” Scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated “hemisphere” walkway lights on hood ends, and at end of raised walkway duct*
- No number boards
- No pilot plows or plates
- 4-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 without loop handles
- As-delivered pilot faces without uncoupling lever loop notches
- Deck-mounted dual multiple unit (MU) receptacle stands
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Handrail set with center gangway chains
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD early “X” style pattern
- Hinged battery box doors with early hinges and narrow louvers
- Sub-base doors with early hinges
- Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on high short hood
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Stamped inertial air intake grills with vertical stiffeners
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Extended-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan on riser ring
- Late See-through dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires through vertical vanes
- 7-horizontal rib radiator intake grills
- See-through front and rear 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fans; 36” pan-top center radiator fan
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Square sand fill hatch on top of long hood end
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
- Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with
Hyatt bearing housings, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate
sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank with vertical gauges and fuel fill in sill skirt; round gauges in fuel tank sides
- Factory-applied wire grab irons,
photoetched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver
gladhands, air tanks, sand hatch covers 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”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- 16-cylinder 567D3 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
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