Description
Here's the finishing touch for your flagship streamliner, the WalthersProto EMD E9! Introduced in 1954 with the more powerful 567C prime mover, with only minor exterior changes from earlier E8 Diesels. Handling premiere passenger train, several later went to work for Amtrak with others reassigned to commuter and fast freight service. As the last of their kind, several E9s have since been preserved. Superbly detailed and powered by the rugged and reliable WalthersProto drive, other features include:
- One-time run of these unit numbers - order now, limited quantity available
- 21mtc connector
- Powered A and B Units
- Road-specific details
- Factory-installed wire grab irons and door handles
- Heavy die cast metal underframe
- Five-pole, skew-wound, high-torque high-efficiency can motor
- Helical gears for smooth, ultra-quiet running
- Correct RP-25 metal wheels
- Proto MAX(TM) metal knuckle couplers
Based on the Milwaukee Road E9 diesels built especially to handle Union Pacific trains like the City of San Francisco and other Domeliners between Chicago and Omaha, features of these WalthersProto replicas include:
Powered E9A units feature:
- Brass Leslie S-2M and Single Chime air horns
- Factory-installed wire grab irons and door handles
- Upper and lower vertical twin sealed-beam LED headlights w/gaskets
- Working LED back up light
- Winterization hatches
- Full side skirts
- Cab wind deflectors
- Cab interior w/crew figures
- Flush numberboards
- Full skirts
- Dynamic brakes w/48" fan
- Rear hatch with single steam generator
- Etched-metal Farr air grilles
- Etched-metal lift rings
- Dual headlights
- Freight pilot w/cut lever
- Period-correct gray sideframes w/roller bearing journals
Powered E9B units include:
- Working LED back up lights at both ends
- Full side skirts
- Dynamic brakes w/48" fan
- Working diaphragms
- Roof hatch plate w/single steam generator
- Winterization hatches
- Factory-installed formed wire grab irons and handrails
- Etched metal Farr air grilles
- Etched-metal lift rings Period-correct gray sideframes w/roller bearing journals
