ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - GE ES44AH GEVO - DCC Ready - CSX

In 2019, CSX partnered with Operation Gratitude, Blue Star Families, Operation Homefront, Wounded Warrior Project, and First Responders Children’s Foundation as part of their Pride In Service™ initiative. To honor our heroes, CSX painted three unique “Spirit” locomotives: Armed Forces, First Responders, and Law Enforcement. We worked closely with CSX to accurately reproduce these special locomotives in HO Scale. A portion of the model proceeds will benefit each of these exceptional non-profit organizations.

Road Number Specific Details:

• Era: 2019 to present
• Series 800-949, built 1-9/08
• Road number 911
• Pride in Service “Spirit Of Our First Responders”
• Officially licensed by CSX
• Paint scheme created using paint & lettering diagrams provided by CSX
• First responders printed on cab side windows
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating LED front deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• Operating LED ground light on left side of locomotive*
• See-through round-hole stepwell steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber and support brackets
• Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to front anticlimber supports
• Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
• Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Front and rear ECP brake equipment box and cable mounted on pilot face
• Pilot-mounted battery charging receptacles
• Sill-mounted tow chain
• Wide profile end handrails
• Early handrails with wrap over stanchions
• Front nose headlight
• Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
• Front left side mounted narrow nose drop grab iron
• Left nose door with window
• Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
• Early cab with optional 4 side windows and barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
• Left side under cab front access bolted X panel, rear door with square corrugated grille
• Dual cab side blue flag holder
• LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (Non-operating)
• Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• Cab roof octagonal antenna dome with small dome antenna
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
• Small hinged inverter cabinet door
• Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
• Right side dynamic brake cab: door with grille, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille
• Short right side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 medium doors with latches on the #2 door and long auxiliary cab filter box door
• Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-RRO horn mounted on engine cab roof
• ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
• Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three
• Flush heat exchanger housing
• Raised radiator grille
• Right side radiator cab: fourth and fifth doors have tall grilles
• Angled water fill box
• AEI tag mounted to right sidesill
• Dual Graham-White (Prime) 075 air filters
• Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
• Late GE Steerable trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, rotating bearing caps, and reinforcement bar under center journal
• 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
• Long sump drainpipe attached to the end of the fuel tank
• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale SBE bottom shelf knuckle couplers

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this locomotive benefit the following non-profit organizations:

• Blue Star Families
• First Responders Children’s Foundation
• Operation Homefront
• Operation Gratitude
• Wounded Warrior Project

Rivet Counter ES44 Locomotives Also Feature:

• Fully assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Directional LED headlights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards*
• GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, control stand, and grade crossing camera
• Tinted cab side windows
• Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside
• See-through dynamic brake exhaust
• Separate exhaust stack
• 22 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow, spare knuckles, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, and more.
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Dual flywheels
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• 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 Ready equipped locomotives also feature:

• Operate using DC
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector