Description
Jesse Gahring’s ScaleTrains-branded paint scheme design takes inspiration from both the Chicago & North Western Railroad and the New York Central System. With vintage lines that take us back to the golden age of railroading, this ES44 looks classic while also remaining contemporary by displaying our new ScaleTrains logo prominently on each end of the locomotive. It also features the “Spirit of Benton” on the side of the nose which is a nod to our headquarters in the mountains of southeast Tennessee.
Our Rivet Counter series model is based on Norfolk Southern’s 8000 series ES44AC and features a high-mounted headlight, PTC array, front and rear anti-climbers, a sill-mounted brake stick holder, and more. We’ve also incorporated LED lighting effects including front, rear, and side walkway lights; ground lights; printed and lighted number boards; and flashing front and rear ditch lights.
Features:
- Model specs based on NS series 8091 to 8140, built 1-3/12
- Road number 2022
- Paint scheme designed by contest winner Jesse Gahring
- Designated ES44AC
- Fully-assembled
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED front, rear and rectangle side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating)
- Sill-mounted brake stick holder
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
- Pilot-mounted battery charging receptacles
- Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Front and rear single ECP brake equipment box and cable mounted on pilot face
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Late handrails with U-bolt caps and narrow rear most stanchion on long side rails
- Wide profile end handrails
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
- Front high (cab) mounted headlight
- Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
- Front right side mounted narrow nose drop grab iron
- Right nose door without window
- Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
- Dual cab side blue flag holder
- Left side under cab front access bolted X panel; rear door with square corrugated grille
- Late cab with barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- In cab grade crossing camera mounted on right side
- Tinted cab side windows
- Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
- Cab roof JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with single large Sinclair antenna
- Small bolted and hinged inverter cabinet door
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
- Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
- Right side dynamic brake cab: door with grille, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille
- Dynamic brake cab door with high door handle and high mounted door handle bumper
- 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
- ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
- Three engine cab roof lift rings
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof
- Separate exhaust stack
- Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three
- Flush heat exchanger housing with two piece wide slot grille
- Raised radiator grille
- 22 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- 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
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with capped 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
- Toilet drain with interior handle
- AEI tag mounted on bracket below the right sidesill
- Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
- Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
- 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
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED headlights
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operate using DC
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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