Introduction

ScaleTrains 32857 Rivet HO GE C44-9W Union Pacific UP 9569 DCC Sound

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:

• Series 9564 to 9664; ex-SP 8100 to 8200, built 5/94 to 11/94
• Road number 9569; ex-SP 8105
• Era: mid to late 2000s
• Red side sill stripe
• Large Sinclair ice skate communications antenna, small Sinclair ice skate End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna, wedge antenna, and GPS dome
• Gray painted Dayton-Phoenix Group model 2806220 HVAC unit
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P3 with shower caps horn mounted on engine cab
• Early speed recorder
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating front deck mounted LED ditch lights**
• Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
• 5-step stepwells with see through steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber
• GE nub pattern walkway tread
• Retrofitted straight nose front grab irons
• Narrow profile end handrails
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door with window
• Two-piece nose top grab irons
• Standard battery box doors
• GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
• Detailed cab interior with desktop controls for both engineer and conductor, seats floor, and rear wall
• Tinted cab side windows
• Early dynamic brake exhaust
• Early electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
• Early curved engine cab profile
• Early flanged exhaust stack housing
• Early radiator door grille all the same size
• Bathtub exhaust silencer
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Standard wheel type handbrake
• Low-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 upper mounting brackets
• Salem twin tower air dryer
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• 5,000-galon fuel tank with vertical weld seam
• Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill blanked
• Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever 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
• Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: (note TCP item numbers)
• 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