Description
Railroad Short Name: GECX
Introduced in 2012, General Electric’s ET44 GEVO Series represents the latest in diesel-electric locomotive technology. The GE Tier 4 GEVO is designed to meet stringent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions regulations. The EPA “Tier” emissions standards are a series, or Tiers, of allowable emissions levels based upon a locomotives’ date of manufacture. The highest and most stringent tier level, Tier 4, sets maximum allowable NOx and hydrocarbon emissions levels for locomotives built for use in the United States from 2015 onward.
Road Number Specific Features:
- Era: 2014 to present
- GECX Series 2025-2044, built 2014
- Road numbers 2026 and 2042
Locomotive Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Prototype GECX ET44s do not have ground lights
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating LED front deck mounted ditch lights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale standard Type E knuckle couplers
- Multiple unit (MU) cable with attachment chain
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Cab without barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- No grade crossing camera
- 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; dual short STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System with Radome covers; and small button antenna
- See-through dynamic brake exhaust
- Left side dynamic brake cab: X panel front and dual blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
- Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
- Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille
- Early pre-production engine cab (long hood) roofline
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan Airchime K3HL horn on engine cab roof and recessed dual-chime horns on right rear of radiator wing
- Horn in direction of travel is played when DCC & sound equipped locomotives are operated using DCC
- Separate exhaust stack
- 40 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Early production radiator grilles with tall grille on 3rd from front radiator door
- Raised center brake wheel
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps
- AEI tag mounted on bracket below the right sidesill
- 5,300 gallon fuel tank with external waste retention tank
- Dual fuel fills per side
- 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 dryer, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated 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:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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