Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter ES44AH CSX “Spirit of Our Armed Forces” #1776

Description

Railroad Short Name: CSX

Road Number Features:

• Era: 2019 to present
• Series 3065-3174, built 3-11/13
• Pride in Service: “Spirit Of Our Armed Forces”
• Road number 1776 (formerly 3112)
• 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
• Officially licensed by CSX
• Paint scheme created using paint & lettering diagrams provided by CSX
• American flag 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; no support brackets
• Front and rear raised pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
• Front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
• 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
• Late handrails with U-bolt caps and wide rear most stanchion on long side
• Front nose headlight
• Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
• Front right side mounted narrow nose drop grab iron
• Right nose door with window
• Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings
• Late cab with 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 dual STI-CO PTC antennas
• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge
• Large 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
• Long right side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door
• Right side auxiliary cab: raised X panel door; 3 doors with latches on #2 and #3 doors
• Lost was brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R 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 center door in set of three
• Flush heat exchanger housing
• Raised radiator grille
• Right side radiator cab: fourth and fifth have short grilles
• Flat water fill box with sight glass
• 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”
• Flat 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

Locomotive Features:

• 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 & Sound Ready Features:

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