SCALE TRAINS GE C44-9W DCC/LOC SOUND - BNSF H1 SCHEME #987

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: late 1996 to early 2000s
• Series BNSF 960-1123, built August 1996 through January 1997
• Road numbers 963, 970, 987, 1000 and 1019
  • Battery cabinet access door with latch
• Road number 1100
  • Battery cabinet access door without latch
• Fully-assembled
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating LED front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
• LED-illuminated high-mount cab number boards*
• Short snowplow without open doors and grab irons
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
• Walkway with front anticlimber
• GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
• Wide-profile end handrails
• Front nose headlight
• Nose door with window 
• Two-piece nose top grab irons
• Standard electrical cabinet access doors
• Battery cabinet access door with latch: BNSF 963, 970, 987, 1000, and 1019
• Battery cabinet access door without latch: BNSF 1100
• GE safety cab with “gull-wing” roof profile and three (3) side windows 
• Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s work station, and engineer’s desktop controls 
• Tinted cab side windows
• Medium-height mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
• Large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna, and four small Sinclair “ice skate” antennas
• Electrical cabinet with drop grab irons on rear
• Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
• Continuous reinforcement rib under dynamic brake intake grilles
• Late angled engine cab profile with raised “dot” treadplate on centerline
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR2 horn mounted on engine cab
• Late non-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, short grilles
• Low-mounted rear sand fill
• Early lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with cantilever struts on right front and left rear sideframes, with flange lubricator sticks
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• No speed recorder
• Dual Graham-White (Salem) 824-100 Centrifugal Air Filters 
• No air dryer
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
• Single 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
• Many factory-applied details, including: wire grab irons, 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”
• 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