Scaletrains Rivet Counter Ho Scale ES44AH CSX Heritage (Chessie System) DCC & Sound #1973 *Reservation*

SKU #'s

SXT39905 Cab #1973

*Pre-order discount of $15 per locomotive will be applied on invoice*

Pre-Order Estimated price is $419.99 CDN + Tax + Shipping. Price will be subject to change to fluctuation in exchange rate. Price in USD is $304.99  A deposit of $50 will be required upon pre-order deadline. If no deposit is made the order will be cancelled. If you are a US customer and which to be billed in US funds, please contact me and i can send you invoice in US funds. * 

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 2023 to present

• Road number 1973

• Special Chessie System Heritage scheme

• Series 3000 to 3064; built 4-6:2012

• Formerly CSX 3049

• Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, Front Top X Panel Wider Than Rear X Panel, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern Lower X Panels

• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof 

• Retrofitted late ET44 style exhaust stack, no flange or center support on stack

• 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 alternating ditch lights**

• Printed and LED-illuminated lighted number boards*

• LSL (Locomotive Speed Limiter) indicator lights on cab sides (non-operating)

• Sill-mounted tow chain

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

• Inside loop uncoupling levers with up down brackets

• Single trainline hose with silver gladhand

• Pilot-mounted battery charging receptacles

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

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

• Front and rear single ECP brake equipment box and cable mounted on pilot face

• See-through round-hole stepwell steps

• Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets

• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread

• Late handrails with U-bolt caps and narrow rear most stanchion on long side rails

• Wide profile end handrails

• Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch

• 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

• Dual cab side blue flag holder

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

• Late cab with 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 between rear of sliding cab side windows and fixed rear  window on engineer’s side 

• Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome and dual long STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System without Radome covers

• See-through dynamic brake exhaust

• Left side dynamic brake cab: tri blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust

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

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

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

• Long right side air intake grille

• Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and no auxiliary cab filter box door

• Right side auxiliary cab: raised X panel door; 3 doors with latches on #2 and #3 doors

• ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three

• Three engine cab roof lift rings

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

• Flush heat exchanger housing with single piece narrow slot grille

• Late raised radiator grille

• 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: Raised doors. Grilles - tall-short-tall-short-tall, no grille under brake wheel short front angled grille and two-piece rear angled grille

• Right side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – tall, short, tall, short, short, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille

• Flat water fill box with sight glass

• High mounted horizontal rear headlight

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

• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling

• Late GE steerable trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, rotating bearing caps, and reinforcement bar under center journal

• Rust-color painted wheelsets

• Square handbrake chain bracket

• Toilet drain with exterior 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 with rear fill “blanked”

• Flat top left side fuel tank top box

• Long crankcase drainpipe attached to the end of the fuel tank

• Low snowplow without MU doors

• 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

• Recommended Radius: 22”