ScaleTrains Rivet Counter (HO) GE ES44AC, CPKC - DCC/Sound

The Rivet Counter™ series model renders numerous variations of cabs, dynamic brakes, doors, grilles, trucks, etc. We’ve also incorporated LED lighting effects including front, rear, and side walkway lights; ground lights; printed and lighted number boards; and ditch lights. 

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road number

• Era: Late 2024 to Present

• Series 8700 to 8739; built November 20005

• Fully-assembled

• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*

• LED-illuminated front, rear and rectangle side walkway lights*

• LED-illuminated front deck-mounted ditch lights

• Printed and LED lighted number boards*

• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with die-cast metal semi-scale SBE bottom shelf knuckle couplers 

• Inside loop uncoupling levers with down brackets

• Double trainline hoses with silver gladhands

• Dual front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face

• Front and rear deck-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles

• See-through Canadian-style “slotted” stepwell steps

• Walkway with front anticlimber and support brackets; clearance for left side walkway access door but no door

• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread

• Early handrails with wrap over stanchion heads, left long rail for capacitor box clearance and right long rail with bolted head on 2nd lower stanchion

• Narrow profile end handrails

• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch

• Front nose headlight

• Left nose door with window

• Nose door grab iron

• Front low-mounted (nose) numberboard housings

• Left side under cab front access bolted X panel; rear door with square corrugated grille

• Early cab with 3 side windows, single sliding without barrel bolt latches on subbase doors

• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand

• In cab grade crossing camera mounted on right side

• Tinted cab side windows

• Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides

• Switching mirror mounted under rear sliding window on engineer side

• Cab roof LinkUp International PTC with small antenna farm

• Inverter Cabinet with Bolted access door, top two X panels same size, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern

• See-through dynamic brake exhaust

• Left side dynamic brake cab: X panel front and dual blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust

• Etched metal see-through dynamic brake intake grilles with blower motors visible inside

• Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small X panel, door with grille, and door with grille

• Dynamic brake cab door with low door handle and low mounted door handle bumper

• Short right side air intake grille

• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 short doors with latches on the #2 door and narrow auxiliary cab filter box door with X panel in front

• Capacitor box on left side walkway

• Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors

• Latched first engine cab door in first set of three and latched engine cab door in second set of three with drop grab irons mounted to last door of second set

• Two engine cab roof lift rings

• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HL horn mounted on engine cab roof 

• ES44 style exhaust stack

• Left side exhaust cab doors: latched last door in set of three 

• Flush heat exchanger housing with single piece narrow slot grille

• Heat Exchange access doors

• Early retrofitted with raised radiator grilles and no center panel

• 22 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment

• Left side radiator cab grille arrangement: Flush doors. Grilles – high square, raised large rectangle, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille, grille under brake wheel

• Right side radiator cab grille arrangement: Flush doors. Grilles – high square, raised large rectangle, raised tall, raised tall, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille 

• No water fill box

• High mounted vertical rear headlight

• Rear narrow-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles

• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling

• GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, dual bracket air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps and smooth section in sideframe over center axle

• Rust-color painted wheelsets

• Square handbrake chain bracket

• Toilet drain with interior handle

• AEI tag mounted to right sidesill under rear battery box door

• Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters

• Graham-White 994-500 air dryer

• 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

• Angled top left side fuel tank top box

• Digital Fuel Gauges

• Short crankcase drainpipe

• Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, brake wheel, 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

• 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 GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more 

• ESU-designed PowerPack with two (2) super capacitors***

• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operate using DC

• DCC ready with 21-pin connector

* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate

*** Compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders while operating using DCC