Rivet Counter N Scale GE ES44AC, Florida East Coast/Zebra/PTC

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 2024 to present
• Series 800 to 823; built 10-12/14
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated front deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• Directional LED headlights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards*
• Body-mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible, molded in a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service 
• Inside loop uncoupling levers with up-down brackets
• Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
• Dual front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
• Front raised and rear flush pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Late handrails with U-bolt caps and wide rear-most stanchion on long side 
• Narrow profile end handrails
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
• Front nose headlight
• Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
• Right 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
• Late cab with 4 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 between rear of sliding cab side windows and fixed rear window on engineer’s side 
• Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome, single short STI-CO PTC antenna with Radome cover, and dual Sinclair dome antennas
• Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, top two X panels same size, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern 
• Left side dynamic brake cab: late single blower dynamic brake package with dual stand-off exhaust, two small center grilles, and latched center door
• Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small grille, door with grille, and X panel door
• Dynamic brake cab door with high door handle and high-mounted door handle bumper
• Short right side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 medium doors with latches on the #2 door and wide auxiliary cab filter box door
• Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• ET44 style engine cab doors: latched center 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 center 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-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
• “C4” A-1-A trucks with idler center axle
  • Prototype equipped with a weight management system for optimum adhesion control
  • Separately applied details include additional truck side frame cylinders, air piping, cam details, and control boxes mounted on sidesills
• Square handbrake chain bracket
• Toilet drain with interior 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”
• Angled 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