Rivet Counter HO Scale GE AC44C6M, Norfolk Southern/“Sonic Bonnet”/Blue Mane/NS #4000

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 2018 to present 
• Series 4000 to 4005, rebuilt 8/15
• Road number 4000; ex-NS 8799 C40-9
• “Sonic Bonnet” blue mane with gray carbody paint scheme
• Rebuilt by American Motive Power at Roanoke, VA
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Printed cab-mounted number boards with separately controlled LED-illumination*
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating) 
• Tall snowplow with MU hose openings and two (2) grab irons
• Semi-scale GE type coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front Inside loop uncoupling levers with up down brackets and rear inside loop down brackets
• 4-step rear stepwells with see-through steps
• Walkway with front and rear anticlimbers
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Wide profile end handrails
• Front high (cab) mounted headlight 
• Nose door without window; security padlock with hasp
• Two-piece nose top grab irons
• Battery cabinet access door with latch
• GE safety cab with four (4) side windows
• Right side cab under floor access doors: dual large louver panels per door
• Left side cab under floor access doors: bolted panel forward of the HVAC unit
• Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s AAR-style control stand
• In-cab grade crossing camera
• Tinted cab side windows
• Dual wind deflector with small mirror at bottom mounted fore and aft of sliding cab windows on both sides
• JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with Sinclair antennas
• Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, top two X panels same size, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern
• Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
• High-capacity dynamic brake exhaust (3-port)
• Rearward right-side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 short doors with latches on the #2 door and narrow auxiliary cab filter box door with X panel in front
• Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• Single lift ring, centered for clean air cab joint
• Early curved engine cab profile
• Low mounted lift rings on engine cab power assembly doors
• Three left side door latches and two right door latches on exhaust cab doors
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P5 (P5R24 configuration) horn mounted on engine cab
• Early flanged exhaust stack housing
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• 22 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
• Right side radiator wing access door with two “T” handles and bolt detail around the door
• Electronic Handbrake with panel to the rear of the brake wheel
• Flat stamped
• Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
• High-mounted rear sand fill
• Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings 
• Left side long rail inverter cabinet late stanchions, all others early type
• Right side long rail 2nd and 3rd stanchions late type, all others early type
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• GE Hi-Ad trucks with reinforcement plate over center axle on right front and left rear side frames and separately applied brake cylinders, single bracket air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps 
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• No speed recorder
• Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
• Wabtec 994-500 series air dryer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical close spaced weld seams
• Fuel tank detail arrangement (front to back) right side - Fuel Filer, Digital Fuel Gauge, EFCO
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
• Curved 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
• 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” Functions
• 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