Product Title: ScaleTrains Operator Series SXT10950 Norfolk Southern NS GE Tier 4 GEVO ET44AC Diesel Locomotive DCC READY HO SCALE
Manufacturer: ScaleTrains
Scale: HO
Condition: Item Condition: C-10, Box Condition P-10
Operational Status: This item is brand-new and is assumed to be fully operational according to the manufacturer's specifications.
TCA Condition/Grading Standards: C-10: Mint—Brand New: all original; unused and unblemished.
TCA Box Grading Standards: P-10: Mint—Brand New: Complete and all original as manufactured and unused.
Photos: See photos
Manufacturer Information:
Operator HO Scale GE ET44AC Tier 4 GEVo, Norfolk Southern/Horsehead
The Operator series HO Scale GE Tier 4 GEVo ET44 is designed for modelers who enjoy running dimensionally accurate trains and are less concerned about factory applied detail parts (available separately). The model is based upon the Rivet Counter Tier 4 GEVo body tooling and smooth drive train. In fact, both lines utilize the same motor for maximum pulling power.
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- Era: 2017 to present
- Series 3647-3680, built 2017
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED front deck mounted ditch lights
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Directional LED headlights
- Current production engine cab (long hood) with angled exhaust compartment roofline
- GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
- Snowplow
- See-through round-hole stepwell steps
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- Wide profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door with window
- Cab with barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- Cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
- Sunshades
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
- Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust
- Right side dynamic brake cab detail, door with grille, door with grille, small grille and door with grille
- Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof
- Exhaust stack
- Brake wheel
- Finely molded grilles
- Accurately profiled frame
- AEI tag mounted on right sidesill
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders
- 5,300 gallon fuel tank with external waste retention tank
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets
- Semi-scale coupler buffer
- Body-mounted semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Same motor and drive train as the Rivet Counter version
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound motor with dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
- Simplified printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Pre-drilled for grab irons, coupler cut levers, MU cables, electronic bell, and more - available in a separate upgrade kit
- Detail kit available separately (SXT80424)
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22”
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DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- Full function ESU-LokSound 5 decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operate using DC
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate
Introduced in 2012, General Electric’s Tier 4 GEVo Series represents the latest in diesel-electric locomotive technology. The GE Tier 4 GEVo is designed to meet increasingly 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 domestic use 2015 onward.
While similar in appearance to previous GE 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 the latest production versions (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 the major railroads including BNSF Railway, Canadian National, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific. 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.
With many units built for railroads across the US and in Canada, the Tier 4 GEVo can be seen operating nationwide in a variety of assignments.
The HO Scale Tier 4 GEVo is made under trademark license from General Electric Transportation.