SCALE TRAINS GE C44-9W DCC/LOC SOUND - SOUTHERN PACIFIC 8105

Road Number-Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: late 1994 to late 1996
• Series SP 8100-8200, built May through December 1994
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• No ground lights (prototype not equipped)
• Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
• Operating LED front deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
• LED-illuminated high-mount number boards*
• Directional LED headlights
• Tall snowplow with open doors and grab irons
• 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
• Nose door with window 
• 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 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 small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna
• Prime Manufacturing PM5191 HVAC unit
• Dynamic brake intake panels 
• Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
• Early curved engine cab profile
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P3 (P24R1 configuration) horn mounted on engine cab
• 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
• Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
• Late Hi-Ad trucks with non-cantilevered struts on all four sideframes
• Rotating axle bearing caps
• Speed recorder on left side second axle
• 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
• Fuel tank mounted steel bell
• SP-style coupler knuckle boxes on rear pilot face
• Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, 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 and all-wheel electrical pick-up
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• 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