Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH-9, Union Pacific/Early with Red Frame Stripe

Road Number-Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: mid 1994 to early 2000s
• Series UP 9700-9739, built July-August 1994
• Road number 9701
• North Little Rock (NLR) Shop employee recognition plaque on right side of the nose
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating LED front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
• LED-illuminated low-mount number boards*
• Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Narrow profile end handrails
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door with window
• Two-piece nose top grab irons
• Standard electrical cabinet access doors
• Battery cabinet access door with latch
• GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
• Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s work station, and engineer’s desktop controls
• Tinted cab side windows
• Medium mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna, small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna, and dual “Teardrop” antennas.
• Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
• Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
• Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
• Early dynamic brake exhaust
• Early curved engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
• Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3L horn mounted on engine cab
• Early flanged exhaust stack housing
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Early radiator door grille pattern (all the same height)
• Standard brake wheel
• Low-mounted rear sand fill
• Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• Speed recorder on left side second axle
• Dual Graham-White (Prime) 975-075 Air Filters
• Graham-White 975-100 “Twin Tower” Air Filter Dryer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
• Single fuel fills per side
• Round and vertical analog fuel gauges, and digital fuel gauges
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
• Early, square handbrake chain bracket
• Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, 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 FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
• ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operate on DC layouts
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector

* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate

*** Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC