Description
DC/DCC Ready Version
PREORDER BY JUNE 28TH 2024 for guaranteed delivery
In April 2023, CPKC Railway became the first single line-haul railway directly connecting Canada, the U.S., and Mexico with 20,000 miles of track. To mark the merger's first anniversary, it launched a celebratory steam tour with a restored Royal Hudson no. 2816, displayed alongside newly branded CPKC diesel locomotive 9375 in Kansas City. A second unit, KCS 4805, was unveiled in late May 2024.
Our Rivet Counter™ series model renders numerous variations of cabs, dynamic brakes, doors, grilles, trucks, etc between the two road numbers. We’ve also incorporated LED lighting effects including front, rear, and side walkway lights; ground lights; printed and lighted number boards; and ditch lights. CPKC 9375 also features ditch lights on the long hood.
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- New roadname
- First CPKC model in the hobby
- Era: 2024 to Present
- CPKC 4805; ex-KCS 4805 built October 2012
- 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 up down brackets
- Single trainline hose with silver gladhand
- Dual front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
- Front raised and rear flush pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- 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
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
- Front nose headlight
- Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose
- 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 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 between rear of sliding cab side windows and fixed rear window on engineer’s side
- Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome with transverse mounted Sinclair antenna and dual long STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System with Radome covers
- Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged 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: 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 low door handle and low mounted door handle bumper
- Short right side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and long auxiliary cab filter box door
- Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- ES44 style engine cab doors: latched first door in each set of three
- Three engine cab roof lift rings
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LA 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 two-piece wide 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 wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with unused electric parking brake mounting brackets on right front and left rear side frames and separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps
- Rust-color painted wheelsets
- Curved handbrake chain bracket
- Toilet drain with interior handle
- AEI tag mounted on bracket below the right sidesill
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) accordion 824 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”
- 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
The merger of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) into what is now known as Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) created the first-ever single-line-haul railway that directly connects Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
In March 2021, CP proposed buying KCS for $25 billion. The idea was to create a new, super-efficient railway system that would make moving goods across North America easier. Not long after CP’s offer, Canadian National Railway (CN) jumped in with a higher bid of $33.6 billion. This started a bidding war between the two Canadian rail giants.
Both merger proposals required the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval. The regulatory scrutiny focused on potential anti-competitive effects and the overall benefits of the merger for North American trade and transportation networks. After an intense review, the STB approved CP’s updated proposal in December 2022, and by April 14, 2023, the merger was finalized, creating CPKC.
CPKC's combined network spans approximately 20,000 miles of rail, linking major economic hubs across North America. Key cities connected by this network include Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Monterrey, and Mexico City. CPKC also owns a 50% stake in the Panama Canal Railway, a 47-mile standard gauge railroad that parallels the vital shipping route. It handles both freight and passengers.
To celebrate the first anniversary of the merger, CPKC announced the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour with 7 stops between Calgary and Mexico City. The train was pulled by Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson no. 2816, a Montreal-built 1930 vintage steam locomotive meticulously restored in 2001 and 2023, respectively. Together with a pair of F Units, the train was witnessed by tens of thousands as it made its way across the CPKC network.
On May 18th, steam engine 2816 and the first CPKC-branded diesel locomotive were publicly displayed at Kansas City’s historic Union Station. The diesel, formerly Canadian Pacific no. 9375, was repainted near Kansas City at Mid-America Car in a new livery designed and approved by company employees. This livery, featuring CP red, yellow, and black also includes the Canadian, USA, and Mexican flags beneath the cab side windows.
On May 23, 2024, Kansas City Southern ES44AC no. 4805 was unveiled in CPKC’s new scheme, making it the first former “Southern Belle” adorned in the livery. It too is sublettered for its original owner – KCS – a practice that will likely continue for accounting purposes as CPKC integrates and manages its locomotive fleet, now exceeding 2,300 units.