Description
Railroad Short Name: BNSF
In 2002, GE released the first GEVo, a new series of locomotives that would replace the AC4400CW and Dash 9-44CW. The first two models were the ES44DC and ES44AC. The ES44C4 followed a few years later.
The new models were designed to meet the stricter diesel locomotive emissions standards imposed by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. The EPA “Tier” emissions standards are a series, or Tiers, of allowable emissions levels based upon a locomotive’s date of manufacture. In 2005, Tier 2 took effect followed by Tier 3 in 2010 and Tier 4 took in 2015.
GE developed a new diesel engine, the 12-cylinder GEVO 12, to meet the new emission standards. Both the bore and stroke were increased to produce the same 4,400 horsepower as the older 7FDL16 16-cylinder engine.
Features:
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- Series 7245 to 7347, built 1/2009 – 12/2009
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Prototype BNSF ES44s do not have ground lights
- Operating LED front, rear and rectangle side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front deck-mounted ditch lights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
- Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Early handrails with wrap over stanchion heads left long rail for no capacitor box and right long rail with bolted head on 2nd lower stanchion
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
- Front nose headlight
- Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
- Right nose door with 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 without 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 large square antenna dome and wireless matrix round dome antenna with conduit
- Dual hinged and latched cabinet doors
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- Left side dynamic brake cab: front blower, bolted X panel, and rear 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 X panel, door with X panel, and door with grille
- Dynamic brake cab door with low door handle and low mounted door handle bumper
- Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and short 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
- Two 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, short, short, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille
- Angled water fill box
- High mounted horizontal rear headlight
- Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps and smooth section in sideframe over center axle
- Triangular handbrake chain bracket
- Toilet drain with interior handle
- AEI tag mounted to right sidesill
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) accordion 824 air filters
- Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
- 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank, vertical fuel gauge, and round fuel gauge
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Flat 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 equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU-LokSound 5 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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