ScaleTrains Rivet Counter HO SXT39638 DCC Ready GE AC4400CW Chicago & Northwestern 'Operation Lifesaver' CNW #8826

Description

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ScaleTrains Rivet Counter HO SXT39638 DCC Ready GE AC4400CW

Chicago & Northwestern 'Operation Lifesaver' CNW #8826

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 11/1994 to approximately 2000 
• Series 8801 to 8835; built 11-12/1994
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers 
• Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
• Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Printed low-mount cab number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Tall snowplow with open doors and two (2) grab irons
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E lower-shelf knuckle couplers
• 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Narrow profile end handrails
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door with window
• Two-piece nose top grab irons
• Battery cabinet access door with latch
• GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
• Right side cab under floor access doors: four screened louver sections per door
• Left side cab under floor access doors: dual latch door with grille forward of the HVAC unit
• Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
• Tinted cab side windows
• Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna; small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna; and small “cone” antenna
• Early Inverter Cabinet: six (6) tall vertical rectangular bolted panels and three (3) horizontal short panels
• Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
• High-capacity dynamic brake exhaust (3-port)
• Forward right-side air intake grille
• Left side auxiliary cab: three (3) medium doors with latches on the #2 door
• Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
• Early curved engine cab profile
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HAR24 horn mounted on engine cab
• Early flanged exhaust stack housing
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
• Standard brake wheel
• Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, tall grilles
• Low-mounted rear sand fill
• Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings 
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
  • Rotating axle bearing caps
  • Speed recorder on second axle both sides
• Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
• No air dryer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
• Dual fuel fills per side
• Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
• Early square handbrake chain bracket
• CNW-style spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, 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” Functions
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Accurate FDL-16 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 on DC layouts*****
• 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

*****Lombard Hobbies Recommendation - As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of 'Dual-Mode' capability. This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors.

Prototype History:

Initial AC4400CW customers utilized their units in applications best suited for their tremendous lugging ability. Based upon their satisfaction with the DASH 9 fleet and their desire for reliable power to move Powder River Basin coal, the Chicago & North Western (C&NW) was one of the first to purchase the newest A.C. power. Sets of AC4400s, painted in the attractive “Lightning Stripe” variation of their classic green and yellow paint scheme, could be seen all over the Powder River Basin moving seemingly endless strings of coal hoppers or gondolas. 

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