Scale Trains 11169 HO, Operator, EMD SD45, DCC Ready, Chicago Northwestern, CNW, 6504
Scale Trains 11169 HO, Operator, EMD SD45, DCC Ready, Chicago Northwestern, CNW, 6504
Prototype Specific ScaleTrains
- Era: mid-1980s through early 1990s
- Series 6500-6557, built 12-67
- Fully assembled (except undecorated)
- Multiple road numbers
- Directional LED headlights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Front and rear full-width MU catch trays with footboards
- Front and rear early small deck extension with dropsteps
- Short stepwells with see-through steps
- Early (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- Latched battery box doors with single louvers
- Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
- 81” low short hood with plated-over handbrake location
- Standard EMD high headlight in face of short hood
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Finely-detailed cab interior
- Leslie RS-3L-R horn mounted on number board housing
- Standard electrical cabinet seam
- No ECAFB
- Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Separately applied dust bin and exhaust stack
- Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes
- See-through dynamic brake intake grilles
- Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
- Finely-molded 48” spiral-grille dynamic and radiator fans
- Short “Nub-Bottom” pilot face
- End handrails with top-and-end mount stanchions
- Accurately profiled underbody frame rail with separate bolster webs
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Flush-mount EFCO button
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank
- Detailed Flexicoil-C trucks with low-mounted brake cylinders and Hyatt bearing caps
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
- Dual balanced flywheels
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Detail kit available separately: wire grab irons, trainline hoses, MU hose clusters, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, and more (SXT81180)
- Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
- DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operate using DC
- DCC-ready with 21-pin connector