ScaleTrains Museum Quality HO SXT70054 DCC Ready Union Pacific GTEL 8500 Horsepower BIG BLOW Turbine UP #18

Description

ScaleTrains Museum Quality HO SXT70054 DCC Ready Union Pacific GTEL 8500 Horsepower BIG BLOW Turbine UP #18

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

Era: Early 1960s to Present
Displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum - Union, IL
Series 16 to 30, built 8/60

A Control Unit

• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• With nose grab irons
• Detailed cab interior with control stand, floor, rear wall, and seats
• Radiator mounted lost wax brass cast Leslie S-5T-R air horn mounted on clearance bracket
• Cab roof heater box
• Square base whip antenna
• Large see-through photo-etched metal side grilles
• H – I dynamic brake housing configuration
• With air intake scoops
• Modified radiator with all weather shutters
• Underbody frame rail
• As delivered 2,500 gallon diesel fuel tank with extended retrofit
• Auxiliary reservoirs mounted to underside of fuel tank, if applicable
• Two air tanks with separate plumbing
• Factory-applied ladders, wire grab irons, coupler cut levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, trainline hoses with silver glad hands, lifting lugs, exhaust stack, and bell
• Highly detailed trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, and air pipes; molded-on wheel slip indicators on left side frames and speed recorder on right side second axle
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pickup
• Directional LED headlight

B Turbine Unit

• Operating LED back-up light
• Farr Dynavane inertial type air intake housing
• I – I dynamic brake housing configuration
• Offset air intake scoops
• Blanked door panels and forward ventilation louvers
• Factory-applied ladders, wire grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver glad hands
• With rear MU connections
• Underbody frame rail
• Highly detailed trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, and air pipes; molded-on wheel slip indicators on left side frames Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pickup

24C Fuel Tender

• 24,000-gallon capacity
• Welded seams
• Insulated
• Commonwealth 6-axle trucks
• Truck chains
• Factory-applied air tank, brake cylinder, and control valve
• Factory-applied multiple unit MU hoses
• Photo-etched metal tender deck walkway
• Operating rear tender light

Sound

• Curve squeal and frog clank sounds
• A unit prime mover sound
• B unit turbine sound

Standard Museum Quality Locomotive Features

• Premium leather-like case
• Fully assembled
• ESU-LokSound 5.0 DCC and sound decoder equipped
• ESU designed PowerPack with two super capacitors
• Operate using DC and DCC****
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, coupler cut levers, windshield wipers, and multiple unit MU hoses
• Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Printing and lettering legible under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18 inches without water and electrical bus connections and tender truck safety chain attached
• Recommended radius: 22 inches

*Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

** During DC operation, class lights illuminate in white. Access to other colors and the ability to change colors requires an ESU DCC decoder while operating in DCC

*** Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC

 ****Lombard Hobbies Recommendation - As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of 'Dual-Mode' capability. This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors

History

• Record setting horsepower
• Massive measurements – 3-unit set spans over 180 ft in length
• Screaming jet engine

These are the hallmarks of the Union Pacific Railroad’s unique GTEL 8500 Horsepower Turbine locomotives. Often called Big Blows because of their deafening noise, they roamed the less populated landscape between Council Bluffs, IA and Ogden, UT. 30 three unit sets were built between 1958 and 1961 and all were retired by the early 1970s.

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