Description
The Rivet Counter™ series AC4400CW is the definitive N Scale model of GE’s revolutionary six-axle alternating current traction locomotive. Our model combines smooth operating performance with unparalleled railroad, road number, and era specific™ details along with industry-leading LED lighting features. Aside from wreck victims, nearly all prototype AC4400s are still in revenue freight service. And with burgeoning rebuild programs, this powerhouse locomotive class will likely be in service for many years to come.
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: 2003 to Mid-2010s
- Series 5603 to 5653; built 4-5/03
- Road numbers 5603, 5609, 5620, 5632, 5635 and 5652
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and four (4) side windows
- LED-illuminated front deck-mounted ditch lights
- LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Painted and factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons; trainline hoses with silver gladhands; 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands; MU cable, uncoupling levers; windshield wipers; mirrors; sunshades; brake wheel; and more
- Short snowplow with open doors and grab irons
- Semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible
- Body mounted coupler box – accepts Micro-Trains® 1015/1016 type couplers without modification
- 5-step stepwells
- Walkway with front anticlimber
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Nose door with window
- Two-piece nose top grab irons
- Front LED-illuminated headlight with lenses on low short hood (low headlight)
- Battery cabinet access door with latch
- Right side cab under floor access doors: dual large louver panels per door
- Left side cab under floor access doors: bolted panel forward of the HVAC unit
- Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and desktop
- Tinted cab side windows
- Octagonal antenna dome
- Late: two (2) tall welded X-panels and three (3) large bolted X-panels underneath
- Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
- Standard dynamic brake exhaust (2-port)
- Rearward right-side air intake grille
- Left side auxiliary cab: three (3) short doors with latches on the #2 door; auxiliary cab filter box door
- Capacitor box on left side walkway
- Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
- Late angled engine cab profile with tri-fold power assembly access doors
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
- “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
- 2 individually applied etched metal radiator exhaust grilles.
- Right side late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
- Standard brake wheel
- Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
- Tall, latched access door on long hood end
- High-mounted rear sandfiller
- Late angled lifting “tabs” on ends of radiator wings
- Rear LED-illuminated vertical headlight with lenses
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders and air plumbing
- Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 centrifugal air filters
- No air dryer
- 5,000 gallon fuel tank
- Dual fuel fills per side
- Round and vertical analog fuel gauges
- Fuel tank mounted steel bell
- Separate air tanks with lower mounting brackets, connector pipe, and connector pipe cover
- Early square handbrake chain bracket
- Spare coupler knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Printing and lettering legible under magnification
- Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 9 ¾”
- Recommended Radius: 11”
- DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
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ESU-LokSound 5 Nano DCC & sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
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Cube-type speaker
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Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
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Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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DC/DCC ready locomotives also feature:
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Operates on DC layouts
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DCC ready with Nano 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