Rivet Counter N Scale ET44, Kansas City Southern/Belle

• Era: 2018-current

• KCS Series 5000 to 5024, built 12/18, 2019

• Road numbers 5004, 5008 and 5021 

  • KCS specific PTC antenna farm

  • Unique to KCS, lack of single grabiron on right front of nose.

• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED front deck-mounted LED ditch lights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Body mounted semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
• Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
• Walkway with front anticlimber
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
• Wide profile end handrails
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door with window
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
• Tinted cab side windows
• Cab roof JEM Communications PTC antenna farm with three large Sinclair antennas on front cabinet and three small Sinclair antennas on rear cabinet
• Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
• Right side dynamic brake cab: door with grille, door with grille, small grille, and door with grille
• Current production engine cab (long hood) with angled exhaust compartment roofline
• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof 
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders and air plumbing 
• 5,300 gallon fuel tank with external waste retention tank
• Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked”
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, MU cable, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, exhaust stack, 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
• Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-075 PRR Brunswick Green, TCP-299 KCS Southern Belle Red
• Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
• Durable packaging safely stores model
• Minimum Radius: 9 ¾”
• Recommended Radius: 11”

DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature

• ESU-LokSound 5 Next18 Micro DCC and sound decoder with “Full Throttle” 

• Cube-type speaker

• Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more

• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature

• Operates on DC layouts

• DCC ready with Next18 connector

* In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate