Rivet Counter HO Scale GE DASH 9-44CW, Kansas City Southern/ex-BNSF Heritage II Patched/Faded Orange Replacement HVAC

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New roadname 
• Era: 2021 to Present
• Series 4420 to 4469; ex-BNSF 4772-4971, built 1998
• KCS 4441
  • Low EMD-style notch-corner plow
  • Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
  • Small louver panel retrofitted to right rear cab sub-base door
  • Octagonal antenna dome with small LinkUp International PTC antenna cabinets
  • BNSF-style Exhaust Stack Cover Housing
  • Graham-White 994-500 Series Air Dryer
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers 
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating LED front deck-mounted ditch lights**
• LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
• 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 without latch
• GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
• Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
• In-cab grade crossing camera 
• Tinted cab side windows
• Medium mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• Octagonal antenna dome with small LinkUp International PTC antenna cabinets
• Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
• Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
• Late dynamic brake exhaust 
• Late angled engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
• Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• 26 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on the sides and top of the radiator compartment
• Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
• Standard brake wheel
• Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short, short
• Tall latched access door on long hood end 
• High-mounted rear sand fill
• Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings 
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on right front and left rear side frames
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• No speed recorder
• Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 Centrifugal Air Filters
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
• Dual fuel fills per side
• Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
• Fuel tank-mounted steel bell
• Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets and connector pipe
• 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 and electrical pick-up
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printing and lettering legible under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores the model
• Minimum Radius: 18”
• Recommended Radius: 22”

DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Turbocharged GE 7FDL16 prime mover sounds
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DC/DCC & sound-ready locomotives also feature:

• Operates 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.