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ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT30233 DCC/ESU LokSound 5 Union Pacific GTEL 8500 HP “Big Blow” Turbine #26
ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT30233 DCC/ESU LokSound 5 Union Pacific GTEL 8500 HP “Big Blow” Turbine #26

ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT30233 DCC/ESU LokSound 5 Union Pacific GTEL 8500 HP “Big Blow” Turbine #26

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ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT30233 DCC/ESU LokSound 5 Union Pacific GTEL 8500 HP “Big Blow” Turbine #26

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

  • Era: Late 1960’s to retirement
  • Utah State Railroad Museum version
  • UP Series 16 to 30, built 2/1961
  • 3-unit set: “A”, “B”, and Fuel Tender
  • Fully-assembled
  • Printing and lettering legible under magnification
  • Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
  • Packaging safely stores model
  • Minimum radius: 11”
  • Recommended radius: 19”

“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
  • DCC & sound equipped locomotives feature:
    • Operates on both DC and DCC layouts**
    • ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
    • Prime mover sound
    • Single cub-type speaker
  • DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives feature:
    • Operable using a DC power pack
    • DCC-ready with 21-pin connector

“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
  • DCC & sound equipped locomotives feature:
    • Operates on both DC and DCC layouts**
    • ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
    • Turbine sound
    • Single cub-type speaker
  • DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives feature:
    • Operable using a DC power pack
    • DCC-ready with 21-pin connector

23C Fuel Tender

  • 23,000-gallon capacity
  • Riveted seams
  • Non-insulated body
  • Buckeye 6-wheel trucks
  • Factory-applied air tank, brake cylinder, and control valve
  • Factory-applied multiple unit (MU) hoses with silver gladhands
  • Photo-etched metal tender deck walkway
  • Operating LED rear tender light

*Some sound and lighting functions are only operable 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.

PROTOTYPE HISTORY

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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  • Union Pacific GTEL 8500 HP “Big Blow” Turbine #26
    3

    Posted by Arthur Utting on Jun 10th 2023

    First Lombard Hobbies has been outstanding in service, price, and shipping and I highly recommend doing business with them. However I can not say the same about Scale Trains. This item cost almost $600 and arrived in poor shape. The first problem was the tender decoder was not functioning, could not program an address or get the light to work. It took me 2 hours to figure out how to access the decoder ( instructions do not tell you how to access) to test it and find it not working. Also the decoder is hardwired with no plugs requiring soldering to install a new one . I wound up installing a spare lokpilot decoder and now the tender light works. The other problem I had was with the "A" unit locomotive. It operated very jerky at slow speeds. I ran the locomotive in for 30 mins in each direction with no change. I had to disassemble clean and lubricate the engine and perform the ESU auto tune, it works better but still not perfect. For the money the locomotive should operate perfectly out of the box (Scale Trains needs a better quaulity assurance program) and I shouldn't have to spend hours fixing a new product. Cosmetically it is great but mechanically it has a lot to be desired thus the three star rating. I should have sent it back to scale trains but that would have cost me money and I would not have a locomotive back for perhaps months while they fixed it. It is going to be a while before I give my money to Scale Trains again.

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