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
- 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”
- 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*
