Introduction

ScaleTrains Rivet 33187 HO Scale GE ET44AC Tier 4 GEVo Diesel “Veterans” CN 3233 LokSound

Introduced in 2012, General Electrics ET44 GEVO Series represents the latest in diesel-electric locomotive technology. The GE Tier 4 GEVO is designed to meet stringent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions regulations.The EPA Tier emissions standards are a series, or Tiers, of allowable emissions levels based upon a locomotives date of manufacture. The highest and most stringent tier level, Tier 4, sets maximum allowable NOx and hydrocarbon emissions levels for locomotives built for use in the United States from 2015 onward.While similar in appearance to previous GE ES44 GEVO designs, the Tier 4 models featured a longer frame compared to their predecessors. This allows for a larger radiator cab (GE refers to the various sections of the long hood as cabs), and a hump over the engine cab for advanced exhaust treatment equipment.Initially, a boxy housing filled the entire roofline on the blue-painted field test/demonstrator units. Due to changes in treatment equipment and clearance issues, the hump would decrease in size and shape into a boxy compartment around the exhaust on initial production units. This culminated in an angled compartment surrounding the exhaust manifold on locomotives produced since 2016.

Despite boxier engine cab rooflines and a radically styled radiator cab, the basic Tier 4 design shares a family appearance with GE safety cab-equipped units going back to the DASH-9s of the 1990s. It even includes the same 12-cylinder GEVo-12 series prime mover and 4,400hp as its predecessor model.

The Tier 4 units have proven to be popular with nearly all major U.S. and Canadian railroads. While GE has settled on a basic carbody design to keep production costs down, there are notable variations and detail differences due to customer specifications including antennas, dynamic brakes, trucks, and more.With over 1,000 units built, the ET44 is a common site across North American railroads. The HO Scale Tier 4 GEVo is made under trademark license from General Electric Transportation.

FEATURES:

• Era: late 2020 to present
• Series 3000-3038, built 7/15 to 9/15
• Road number 3233
• Veterans commemorative scheme
• Wide profile end handrails
• Brown in cab grade crossing camera mounted on left side
• Cab roof large square antenna dome, dual short STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System with Radome covers and tear drop antenna
• Current production engine cab (long hood) with angled exhaust compartment roofline
• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof with #1L chime reversed
• Flat stamped brakewheel
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
• Fully-assembled
• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating front and rear deck mounted LED ditch lights**
• Operating red DPU marker lights*
• Printed and LED lighted number boards*
• See-through Canadian-style slotted stepwell steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber and see-through grating
• GE nub pattern walkway tread
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door without window
• Cab without barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, control stand, and crossing grade camera
• Tinted cab side windows
• See-through dynamic brake exhaust
• Left side dynamic brake cab: X panel front and dual blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
• Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
• Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille
• Separate exhaust stack
• 40 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Standard production radiator door grilles
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, wheel flange lubricators, and rotating bearing caps
• Battery charging receptacle on right sidesill under battery box doors
• AEI tag mounted on right sidesill
• 5,300 gallon fuel tank with external waste retention tank
• Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill blanked
• End of fuel tank EOT basket on left rear of tank
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks with plumbing, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, sanding lines, 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 decoder with Full Throttle
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
• ESU 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