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
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