Introduction

ScaleTrains 32851 Rivet Counter HO Scale GE Dash 9-40C Norfolk Southern NS 8844 DCC LokSound

With railroad, road number, and era specific details, our Rivet Counter series DASH-9 is the definitive model of this popular GE locomotive. In our continuing effort to push the boundaries of realism in model railroading, the Rivet Counter DASH-9 features operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights.

FEATURES:

• Era: early 2000s to 2010s
• Series 8764 to 8888, built 1/95 to 4/95
• Road number 8844
• Roof top mounted Dayton-Phoenix 2807000 HVAC painted black
• Large Sinclair antenna mounted on top of clean air cab
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P5 horn with debris covers mounted on engine cab
• Cast handbrake wheel with release lever pained black
• End of Train Device (EOTD) hanger bracket painted yellow on left front truck sideframe
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating front and rear deck mounted alternating LED ditch lights**
• Operating LED ground light on right side of locomotive*
• Printed and operating LED lighted number boards*
• GE spartan cab with cab-face condensation drain line and operating cab side windows
• Late flat-top low hood
• Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
• 4-step stepwells with see through steps
• Walkway with front and rear anticlimber
• GE nub pattern walkway tread
• Wide profile end handrails
• Battery box doors with barrel bolt latches
• Detailed cab interior with standard control stand for engineer, desktop for conductor, seats, floor, and rear wall
• Dual Motorola ASP-16 Firecracker antennas mounted on clean air cab
• Late dynamic brake exhaust
• Late electrical cabinet with step on rear and Barrel Bolt Latches
• Early curved engine cab profile
• Early flanged exhaust stack housing
• Bathtub exhaust silencer
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
• High-mounted rear sandfiller
• Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe and connector pipe cover
• Dual Graham-White (Prime) air filters
• Graham-White (Salem) 975-100-Twin-Tower-Dryer
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• 5,000-galon fuel tank with vertical weld seam
• Single fuel fills per side
• Round and vertical analog fuel gauge
• Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• Early, square handbrake chain bracket
• Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, snowplow, spare knuckles, trainline hoses, 3-hose MU clusters, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted 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
• 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
• 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

* 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