Fruit Growers Express (Block Letters) #11834 (Sound Equipped)

Fruit Growers Express (Block Letters)
• Phase I
• early smoke jack with flapper
• Riveted carbody
• No door hangers
• Drop sill
• Late angle-iron style coupler cut levers
• Body mounted brakes
• Era: 1979+

MODEL FEATURES:
• With onboard SoundTraxx sound installed
• Scaled from prototype manufacturer's drawings and field measurements
• Repaints often vary by road number in the size and style of the reporting marks, car numbers and patch shapes
• Four different road numbers each except WFE
• See-through protective screens on the genset end
• Detroit Diesel 2-71 Genset visible inside
• End wall corrugation visible inside
• Inner refrigerator bulkhead
• See through end platforms
• Two different exhaust stack types: straight pipe with “flapper” or T-shaped “smokejack” per prototype and era
• Full underframe detail including Keystone cushioning, air brake reservoir, control valve, brake cylinder, brake plumbing, and fuel tank
• Factory applied end ladders and door closure rods
• Trainline hoses with silver ends
• Three different coupler cut lever styles per prototype
• Body-mounted or truck-mounted brakes per prototype
• McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• 100-ton roller bearing trucks with rotating bearing caps
• Fully-assembled and ready-to-run
• Accurately painted and printed for prototypical realism
• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
• Machined metal wheels
• Weighted for trouble free operation
• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on Code 70, 75, 83 and 100 rail
• Window packaging for easy viewing
• Packaging interior safely holds the model for convenient storage
• Minimum radius: 18"
• Recommended radius: 22"

SOUND EQUIPPED MODELS ALSO FEATURE:
• Sound recorded from actual genset
• Sound randomly cycles on and off
• Utilizes minimum track power
• Raise and lower the volume by adjusting the potentiometer