Kato 176-7613DCC N Scale EMD SD70M Norfolk Southern NS 2581 with DCC Era_1950-1960s Redesigned Steering Rack

Redesigned Steering Rack

Sandy River Snowplow

Based on units renumbered in1957 and in service the mid-1960s

The key difference between that early process and today's containers is that the original target was LCL

tailgate in unload/load position

Kato 176-7613DCC N Scale EMD SD70M Norfolk Southern NS 2581 with DCC Era_1950-1960s Redesigned Steering RackKato 176 7613DCC N Scale EMD SD70M Norfolk Southern NS 2581 with DCC Introduced in 1992, EMD SD70M was a 4000 horsepower locomotive that ran on EMDs new steerable truck design, known as the HTCR II radial truck. This new truck allowed the locomotive to transfer its power to the rails more efficiently, which in turn enabled two SD70M locomotives to pull a train that would have taken 3 SD40 2s to pull. The DC brother of the SD70MAC, the SD70M was