Rivet Counter N Scale GE ES40DC, Norfolk Southern/Horsehead

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 2007 to 2014
• Series 7670 to 7719; built 09/07-02/08
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• Directional LED headlights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards*
• Body-mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
• Inside loop uncoupling levers with up-down brackets
• Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
• Dual front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to front anticlimber supports
• Front raised and rear flush pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Walkway with front anticlimber and support brackets
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Early handrails with wrap-over stanchion heads, left long rail for no capacitor box, and right long rail with bolted head on 2nd lower stanchion
• Wide profile end handrails
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
• Front high (cab) mounted headlight
• Left nose door with window
• Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
• Left side under cab front access bolted X panel; rear door with square corrugated grille
• Early cab with 3 side windows
• Detailed cab interior
• Tinted cab side windows
• Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides
• Switching mirror mounted under rear sliding window on engineer side
• Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome, and GE I-Service communication system round dome antenna with conduit
• Dual-hinged and latched cabinet doors with barrel bolt latches
• Left side dynamic brake cab: front blower, bolted X panel, and rear blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
• Right side dynamic brake cab: door with grille and latches forward, small flat panel, bolted on X-panel, door with grille and latches forward
• Dynamic brake cab door with low door handle and low-mounted door handle bumper
• Short right side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 medium doors with latches on #2 door and short auxiliary cab filter box door
• Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
• Nathan AirChime K5HL horn mounted on engine cab roof 
• ES44 style exhaust stack
• Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three 
• Flush heat exchanger housing with two-piece wide slot grille
• Late raised radiator grille
• Left side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – tall-short-tall-tall-tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille, no grille under brake wheel
• Right side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – tall, short, tall, tall, tall, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille
• Angled water fill box
• High-mounted vertical rear headlight
• Rear anticlimber with support brackets
• Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• GE Hi-Ad trucks with unused electric parking brake mounting brackets on right front side frame and separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing
• Square handbrake chain bracket
• Toilet drain with exterior handle
• 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
• Digital fuel gauges
• Short crankcase drainpipe
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with molded 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 bell, brake wheel, 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 55 and 80 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 9 ¾”
• Recommended radius: 11”

DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:

• ESU-LokSound 5 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:

• Operate using DC
• DCC ready with Nano E24 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