Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH 9-40W, Norfolk Southern/As Built (R3)

Name: Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH 9-40W, Norfolk Southern/As Built (R3)
SKU: 513211
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Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH 9-40W, Norfolk Southern/As Built (R3) by ScaleTrains.com

Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH 9-44CW, NS, by ScaleTrains.com

With railroad, road number, and era specific details, our Rivet Counter series DASH-9 is the definitive model of this popular GE locomotive. In our continuing effort to push the boundaries of realism in model railroading, the Rivet Counter DASH-9 features operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights.

DC/DCC Ready
Retail: ~~$224.99~~
OUR SELLING PRICE: $179.99

DCC & Sound Equipped
Retail: ~~$339.99~~
OUR SELLING PRICE: $269.99

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Item Number	Road Number	Control & Sound Options	Our Selling Price	Availability
SXT32538	9555	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32539	9555	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32371	9550	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32372	9550	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32373	9580	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32374	9580	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32375	9597	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32376	9597	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32377	9613	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32378	9613	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32379	9641	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32380	9641	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out
SXT32381	9672	DCC & Sound Equipped	$269.99	Sold Out
SXT32382	9672	DCC/Sound Ready	$179.99	Sold Out

Product Details

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

Road numbers 9550 and 9555
- Era: 2000 to 2013, NS series 9535-9559, built 2000
Road numbers 9580, 9597, 9613, 9641 and 9672
- Era: 2001 to 2013, series 9560-9744, built 2001-2002
Front high (cab) mounted headlight
Operating front and rear deck mounted alternating LED ditch lights
Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights
Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
5-step stepwells with see through steps
Walkway with front and rear anticlimber
Wide profile end handrails
Nose door without window
Two-piece nose top grab irons
Standard battery box doors
GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
Cab interior with standard control stand for engineer and desktop for conductor
In cab grade crossing camera
Dual large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna and small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna
Motive Equipment Inc. (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Unit
Late angled engine cab profile
Late dynamic brake exhaust
Late electrical cabinet with step on rear
Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime K5HAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
Late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
Low-mounted rear sandfiller
Electric handbrake without brake wheel and with electric brake actuator on right front truck sideframe
Late lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe and connector pipe cover
Wabtec Graham White 994-500 Series Air Dryer
Fuel tank mounted electronic bell
Single fuel fills per side
5,000-galon fuel tank with angled weld seam and clean out on left side
Round and vertical analog fuel gauges along with digital fuel gauge
Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on right front and left rear sideframes
Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
Paint color matches Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-010 Black

Rivet Counter DASH-9 Locomotives Also Feature

Fully-assembled (except undecorated)
Multiple road numbers
Printed and LED lighted number boards
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
Accurate hood door and long hood detail
Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
Sliding cab windows
Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
Directional LED headlights
All-wheel drive
All-wheel electrical pick-up
Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
Dual flywheels
Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
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 & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Dual cube-type speakers
- Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature
- Operable using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector

* some sound and lighting function on DCC & sound equipped models are not operable using DC

Prototype History

General Electric wrestled the title of top domestic locomotive builder from EMD during the late 1980s with their Dash-8 series. GE once again positioned themselves to shakeup the locomotive world yet again less than a decade later. Entering the 1990s, GE completely revamped their locomotive lineup by utilizing customer feedback, learning from experience gained from previous locomotive series, and improvements in technology.

A single C44-9W demonstrator unit, numbered 8601, made its debut in 1993 (and later became C&NW 8601). While similar at first glance to predecessor models like the C40-8 and C40-8W, the Dash-9 series featured a few notable physical differences. Built on a slightly longer platform that allowed for a massive 5,000 gallon fuel tank, Dash-9s also featured thicker radiator “wings” at the rear of the carbody. This is usually the quickest way to differentiate them from previous models.

Thanks to its long production span and customer options, small detail differences could be noted between various customer orders. This includes changes with HVAC system vendors (the large “A/C” box behind the cab on the conductors side), engine cab profile, radiator lifting lugs, hood end, trucks, fuel tank, stepwells, operator’s cab, and even handrail profiles.

The C44-9W proved to be extremely popular over its production span with over 3,500 locomotives being sold new to ATSF, BC Rail, BNSF, CN, C&NW, NS (including 100 spartan cab equipped versions, nicknamed “Top Hats”), QNS&L, SP, and UP.

NS was an important customer with over 1,000 Dash-9s on the roster. They preferred customized models in the form of 100 spartan-cab equipped, 4,000hp C40-9s (nicknamed “Top Hats”) and numerous examples of safety cab-equipped versions rated at 4,000hp, and designated as C40-9Ws. All C40-9/Ws would eventually be uprated to 4,400hp with their designations changed accordingly.

Over the years, the Dash-9s could be found in a variety of assignments. Santa Fe’s C44-9Ws were delivered in the famed red and silver “Superfleet” scheme and could be found hurtling across the southwest with hot piggyback trailer and container trains in tow.

Southern Pacific’s units were some of the first new six-axle power on the beleaguered railroad’s roster in more than a decade. They were pressed into a variety of assignments ranging from hot intermodal trains to coal and iron ore drags.

Chicago & North Western’s units made their debut in flashy “lightning stripe” livery and handled numerous assignments during their brief tenure before being absorbed by Union Pacific.

The Dash-9 series remained in production until the early 2000s when it was superseded by GE’s “Evolution Series” ES40/44-series models. Age has begun to catch up with the earliest C44-9W and related models so some railroads are storing and/or rebuilding these veteran units. NS’s oldest units, the spartan-cab C40-9s, are being rebuilt with the latest GE safety cab for increased crew comfort and safety plus AC-traction for increased performance.

Originally built in the early 1990s, some of BNSF’s former Santa Fe fleet are also in the process of being rebuilt with AC-traction to extend their service lives and improve their performance.

Built over a long timeframe, and proving to be a solid, upgradeable platform, the C44-9W family of locomotives including rebuilds is sure to remain a fixture on today’s railroads for the foreseeable future.