ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - GE DASH 9-44CW - DCC & Sound - BNSF 'Heritage I & II'

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:
Road numbers 4144 and 4158

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 4097-4146, built 10-11/02
• STI-CO PTC antennas
• Motive Equipment Inc. (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Unit
• Salem Air Dryer
• Orange color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Road number 4337

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 4300-4598, built 1-12/99
• Octagonal antenna dome
• Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
• Motive Equipment Inc. (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Unit
• Wabtec Graham White 994-500 Series Air Dryer
• Green color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Road number 4346

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 4300-4598, built 1-12/99
• STI-CO PTC antennas
• Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
• Dayton Phoenix (DPG) Model 280260 HVAC Unit
• HVAC in faded paint as replacement unit
• Salem Air Dryer
• Green color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Road number 4478

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 4300-4598, built 1-12/99
• STI-CO PTC antennas
• Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
• Dayton Phoenix (DPG) Model 280260 HVAC Unit
• HVAC in faded paint as replacement unit
• Salem Air Dryer
• Orange color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Road number 4331

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 4300-4598, built 1-12/99
• LinkUp PTC antennas
• Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
• Clear air cab and engine cab swapped with H1 unit
• Dayton Phoenix (DPG) Model 280260 HVAC Unit
• Wabtec Graham White 994-500 Series Air Dryer
• Engine cab swapped from H1 painted unit
• Rusty air tanks
• Green color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Road number 5441

• Era: late 2010s to present, series BNSF 5420-5499, built 4-9/00
• STI-CO PTC antennas
• Exhaust stack storage cover bracket
• Clear air cab and engine cab swapped with H1 unit
• Dayton Phoenix (DPG) Model 280260 HVAC Unit
• Salem Air Dryer
• Engine cab swapped from H1 painted unit
• Orange color under lower yellow stripes on nose front

Other Features:

• GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights
• Operating front deck mounted LED ditch lights
• Short 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
• Cab interior with desktop controls for both engineer ad conductor
• Late angled engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
• Late dynamic brake exhaust
• Early electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
• Late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
• Tall latched access door on long hood end
• Late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
• High-mounted rear sandfiller
• Standard wheel type handbrake
• Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe and connector pipe cover
• 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 cantilever struts on right front and left rear sideframes
• Early, square handbrake chain bracket
• Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face

Rivet Counter DASH 9-44CW Locomotives Also Feature:

• Fully-assembled (except undecorated)
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating front, rear, and side LED walkway lights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Four (4) cabs
• “Gullwing” with three (3) side windows
• “Gullwing” with four (4) side window
• Standard safety cab with low headlight
• Standard safety cab with high headlight
• Dayton Phoenix (DPG) Model 280620 or Motive Equipment (MEI) ME7000 HVAC Units
• GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and struts (per prototype)
• Early with reinforcement bulge
• Late with cantilever struts on right front and left rear sideframes
• Late with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
• Late with cantilever struts on all four sideframes
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• Nose door with or without window
• Four (4) step or five (5) step stepwells with see through steps
• Narrow or wide profile end handrails
• One or two-piece nose top grab iron(s)
• Early (curved), late (angled) or late (angled) with “tri-fold” power assembly access doors engine cab profile
• Early flanged or late non-flanged exhaust stack housing
• Early or late lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• Low or high rear sand filler
• Separate air tanks with lower or upper mounting brackets
• Three (3) types of fuel fills per side: single; dual; dual with rear fill blanked
• Spare coupler knuckle holders on truck sideframes or rear pilot face
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and desktop controls or control stand, per prototype
• Tinted cab side windows
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank
• 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 wheverpossible
• 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 capacitor
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*

* Note: some sound and lighting functions on DCC & sound-equipped versions are not operable using DC