Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
Road Number Features:
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- Era: 2016 to Present
- Series: 8091 to 8140, built 1-3/12
- Road numbers: 8117 and 8122
- Horsehead paint scheme
- Designated ES44AC
- Front high (cab) mounted headlight
- Cab roof JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with single large Sinclair antenna
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
- Operating LED front, rear, and rectangle side walkway lights*
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Sill-mounted brake stick holder
- Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
- Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- Front and rear single ECP brake equipment box and cable mounted on pilot face
- Pilot-mounted battery charging receptacles
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber and no support brackets
- GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
- Late handrails with U-bolt caps and narrow rear most stanchion on long side rails
- Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
- Front right side mounted narrow nose drop grab iron
- Right nose door without window
- Wide profile end handrails
- Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
- Left side under cab front access bolted X panel; rear door with square
- Late cab with barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, control stand, and grade crossing camera
- Dual cab side blue flag holder
- LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (Non-operating)
- Tinted cab side windows
- Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
- Small hinged inverter cabinet door
- Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
- Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
- Right side dynamic brake cab: door with grille, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- Short right side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and long auxiliary cab filter box door
- Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof
- ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
- Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three
- Flush heat exchanger housing with two piece wide slot grille
- 22 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Raised radiator grille
- Left side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – Tall-Short-Tall-Short-Tall, no grille under brake wheel short front angled grille and two-piece rear angled grille
- Right side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – tall, short, tall, tall, short, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille
- Flat water fill box with sight glass
- High mounted horizontal rear headlight
- Rear anticlimber without support brackets
- Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
- AEI tag mounted on bracket below the right sidesill
- Toilet drain with interior handle
- Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
- Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with caped electric parking brake mounting brackets on right front and left rear side frames and separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps
- Triangular handbrake chain bracket
- 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank, digital fuel gauge, vertical fuel gauge, and round fuel gauge
- Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked”
- Angled top left side fuel tank top box
- Short crankcase drainpipe
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale standard Type E knuckle couplers
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with grab irons, spare knuckles, 3-hose Multiple Unit (MU) clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, and more
<li”>Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
- Balanced dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED headlights
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Color matched to TruColor Paint color TCP-010 Black
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
- Dual cube-type speakers
- Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover sound plus auxiliary, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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