Rivet Counter HO Scale ES44DC, BNSF/Heritage III/As Delivered

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: Early 2009 to approximately 2015
• 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

DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operate using DC
• 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