GE Safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
Fully-assembled
Multiple road numbers
Operating LED-illuminated front deck-mounted ditch lights*
Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, MU cable, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, brake wheel, and more
Short snowplow with open doors and grab irons
Semi-scale knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible molded in a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
5-step stepwells
Walkway with front anticlimber
GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
Narrow profile end handrails
Nose door with window
Front LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on low short hood
Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and desktop
Tinted cab side windows
Octagonal antenna dome with LinkUp PTC
Motive Equipment Inc. (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Unit
Late (angled) engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
“Bathtub” exhaust silencer
Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
Standard brake wheel
Late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
High-mounted rear sandfiller
Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
Rear LED-illuminated vertical headlight with lenses
Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders and air plumbing
Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets
Fuel tank mounted steel bell
5,000 gallon fuel tank
Dual fuel fills per side
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 55 and 80 rail
Packaging safely stores model
Minimum Radius: 9 ¾”
Recommended Radius: 11”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
ESU-LokSound 5 Nano DCC & sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
Cube-type speaker
Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
DC/DCC ready locomotives also feature:
Operates on DC layouts
DCC ready with Nano E24 connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway (AGR), a G&W subsidiary, operates 348 miles of track from Pensacola, Florida, to Columbus, Mississippi, with connections to major Class I railroads like BNSF, Canadian National, CSX, and Norfolk Southern. A former Frisco, Burlington Northern, and BNSF line – it was acquired by G&W in 2012 through the purchase of RailAmerica. AGR serves industries along the Gulf Coast, handling commodities like paper, steel, and chemicals. In 2024, AGR became the first partner in BNSF’s Shortline Select program, enhancing service through BNSF’s 32,500-mile network. AGR’s role is vital for regional industries, offering transloading, industrial development, and railcar storage.
It became one of the first Genesee & Wyoming lines to receive six axle GE locomotives in 2022, including DASH 9s and DASH 8s. The locomotives were purchased second-hand from Wabtec and are former BNSF units, which likely could have operated on this line in the early 2000s, before it was sold to RailAmerica in 2002. All of AGR’s DASH 9s were painted in G&W’s corporate colors except for road number 4423, which wears the company’s striking “Honoring Veterans” scheme.
WHY HYPOTYPICAL?
Because Genesee & Wyoming uses a unique style of in-cab grade crossing camera in their locomotives, unlike what we have tooled in HO Scale, these models, while mostly accurate to the prototypes, must be labeled as HypoTypical.
