ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - GE DASH 9-40W - DCC & Sound - Southern Pacific
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: 1994 to 1999, SP series 8100-8200, built 1994
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
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
Cab interior with desktop controls for both engineer ad conductor
Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna and small Sinclair “ice skate” end of train (EOT) telemetry antenna
Motive Equipment Inc. (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Unit
Early curved engine cab profile
Early dynamic brake exhaust
Early electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P-3-R1 horn mounted on engine cab
Early flanged exhaust stack housing
Early radiator door grille all the same size
Low-mounted rear sandfiller
Standard wheel type handbrake
Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
Salem Air Dryer
Fuel tank mounted steel bell
Dual fuel fills per side
5,000-galon fuel tank with vertical weld seam
Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
Late Hi-Ad trucks with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
Early, square handbrake chain bracket
Rivet Counter DASH-9 Locomotives Also Feature:
Fully-assembled (except undecorated)
Multiple road numbers
Printed and LED lighted number boards
Dimensionally accurate truck centers
Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
Accurate hood door and long hood detail
Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
Sliding cab windows
Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
Directional LED headlights
All-wheel drive
All-wheel electrical pick-up
Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
Dual flywheels
Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
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 & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
Dual cube-type speakers
Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*
* some sound and lighting function on DCC & sound equipped models are not operable using DC