Rivet Counter HO Scale GE ES44AH, CSX/Heritage/Louisville and Nashville/L&N #1850

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New paint scheme
• Era: 2023 to present
• Road number 1850
  • Special Louisville & Nashville Heritage scheme
  • Series 3000 to 3064; built 4-6:2012
  • Former CSX 3056
  • Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, Front Top X Panel Wider Than Rear X Panel, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern Lower X Panels
  • Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof, trumpets arranged in non-standard configuration
  • Retrofitted late ET44 style exhaust stack, no flange or center support on stack
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-illuminated front, rear and rectangle side walkway lights*
• LED-illuminated front deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• Printed and LED-illuminated lighted number boards*
• LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating)
• Sill-mounted tow chain
• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale SBE bottom shelf knuckle couplers 
• Inside loop uncoupling levers with up down brackets
• Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
• Pilot-mounted battery charging receptacles
• Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
• Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Front and rear single ECP brake equipment box and cable mounted on pilot face
• See-through round-hole stepwell steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Late handrails with U-bolt caps and narrow rear most stanchion on long side rails
• Wide profile end handrails
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
• Front nose headlight
• Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
• Front right side mounted narrow nose drop grab iron
• 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 with 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
• Switching mirror mounted between rear of sliding cab side windows and fixed rear  window on engineer’s side 
• Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome and dual long STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System without Radome covers
• See-through dynamic brake exhaust
• Left side dynamic brake cab: tri 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 grille, door with grille, and door with grille
• Dynamic brake cab door with high door handle and high mounted door handle bumper
• Long right side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and no auxiliary cab filter box door
• Right side auxiliary cab: raised X panel door; 3 doors with latches on #2 and #3 doors
• ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
• Three engine cab roof lift rings
• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof 
• Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three 
• Flush heat exchanger housing with single piece narrow 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
• Flat water fill box with sight glass
• High mounted horizontal rear headlight
• Rear narrow-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• Late GE steerable trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, rotating bearing caps, and reinforcement bar under center journal
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• Square handbrake chain bracket
• Toilet drain with exterior handle
• AEI tag mounted to right sidesill
• Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
• Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
• 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank, digital fuel gauge, vertical fuel gauge, and round fuel gauge
• Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked”
• Flat top left side fuel tank top box
• Long crankcase drainpipe attached to the end of the fuel tank
• Tall snowplow without MU doors
• 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