Rivet Counter HO Scale Wabtec AC44C6M, Norfolk Southern/Horsehead/Sinewave

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Series 4275 to 4574; ex-Dash 9-44CW 9245 to 9308, and 9310 to 9394 built 1998 to 1999
  • Era: 2022 to present
  • Road number 4504 and 4513; ex-NS 9306 and 9267
    • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LAR24 horn mounted on engine cab
  • Road number 4505; ex-NS 9351
    • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LAR24 horn with shower caps mounted on engine cab
• Series 4749 to 4760; ex-Dash 9-44CW 9395 to 9534, built 2000
  • Era: 2023 to present
  • Road numbers 4749 and 4751; ex-NS 9416 and 9413
    • Tall and narrow plow with no doors, filleted coupler opening, and two (2) grab irons
  • Road number 4753; ex-NS 9497
    • Low and wide plow with no doors, flanged coupler opening, and two (2) grab irons
• Fully-assembled
• 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) 
• Low and wide plow with no doors, flanged coupler opening, and two (2) grab irons
• Rear pilot with no reinforcement plate
• Semi-scale GE type coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers, painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
• Inside loop uncoupling levers with down brackets
• 5-step 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 with 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
• Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with Sinclair antennas
• Cab HVAC vent panels with 13-louvers and circular latches
• 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 wide auxiliary cab filter box door
• Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• Late wide width inertial cabinet with no spacer between the engine cab.  Short rectangular vent and wide X-panel on the right side and rectangular vent on the left side.  Partial length horizontal access panel on the left side with a small adjacent X-panel  
• Late angled engine cab profile with raised “dot” treadplate on centerline 
• No lift rings on engine cab power assembly door
• Three door latches per side on the exhaust cab doors
• Late non-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
• No right side radiator wing access door
• Electronic Handbrake with panel to the rear of the brake wheel
• Flat stamped brakewheel
• Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, tall grilles
• Low-mounted rear sand fill
• Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• No forward radiator lifting lugs
• Left side long rail all stanchions, early type
• Right side long rail, all stanchions are 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 
• Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
• No speed recorder
• Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
• Graham-White 994-500 series air dryer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams on the right side with a single angled seam on the left with late late-style air reservoir drain notch
• 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