ScaleTrains 33182 HO Scale GE ET44AC Diesel EJ&E Heritage CN 3023
Introduced in 2012, General Electric’s ET44 GEVO Series represents the latest in diesel-electric locomotive technology. The GE Tier 4 GEVO is designed to meet stringent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions regulations.The EPA “Tier” emissions standards are a series, or Tiers, of allowable emissions levels based upon a locomotives’ date of manufacture. The highest and most stringent tier level, Tier 4, sets maximum allowable NOx and hydrocarbon emissions levels for locomotives built for use in the United States from 2015 onward.While similar in appearance to previous GE ES44 GEVO designs, the Tier 4 models featured a longer frame compared to their predecessors. This allows for a larger radiator “cab” (GE refers to the various sections of the long hood as “cabs”), and a “hump” over the engine cab for advanced exhaust treatment equipment.Initially, a boxy housing filled the entire roofline on the blue-painted field test/demonstrator units. Due to changes in treatment equipment and clearance issues, the “hump” would decrease in size and shape into a boxy compartment around the exhaust on initial production units. This culminated in an angled compartment surrounding the exhaust manifold on locomotives produced since 2016.Despite boxier engine cab rooflines and a radically styled radiator cab, the basic Tier 4 design shares a family appearance with GE safety cab-equipped units going back to the DASH-9s of the 1990s. It even includes the same 12-cylinder GEVo-12 series prime mover and 4,400hp as its predecessor model.The Tier 4 units have proven to be popular with nearly all major U.S. and Canadian railroads. While GE has settled on a basic carbody design to keep production costs down, there are notable variations and detail differences due to customer specifications including antennas, dynamic brakes, trucks, and more.With over 1,000 units built, the ET44 is a common site across North American railroads. The HO Scale Tier 4 GEVo is made under trademark license from General Electric Transportation.
FEATURES:
- Era: fall 2020 to present
- Series 3000-3038, built 715 to 9/15
- EJ&E Heritage paint scheme
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Operating LED front, rear, and side walkway lights*
- Operating front and rear deck mounted LED ditch lights**
- Operating red DPU marker lights*
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- See-through Canadian-style “slotted” stepwell steps
- Rear Canadian “rock pilot”
- Walkway with front anticlimber and see-through grating
- GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
- Narrow profile end handrails
- Front nose headlight
- Nose door without window
- Cab without barrel bolt latches on subbase doors
- In cab grade crossing camera mounted on left side
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, control stand, and crossing grade camera
- Tinted cab side windows
- Cab roof large square antenna dome, dual short STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System with Radome covers and tear drop antenna
- 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 grille, door with grille, and door with grille
- Early production engine cab (long hood) with squared exhaust compartment roofline
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof
- Separate exhaust stack
- 40 individually applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
- Standard production radiator door grilles
- Concave center stamped brakewheel
- Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch
- Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, air plumbing, wheel flange lubricators, and rotating bearing caps
- Battery charging receptacle on right sidesill under battery box doors
- AEI tag mounted on right sidesill
- 5,300 gallon fuel tank with external waste retention tank
- Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked”
- End of fuel tank EOT basket on left rear of tank
- 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 with plumbing, fuel tank mounted electronic bell, sanding lines, 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
- Body paint color matches Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-389 EJ&E Orange
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum Radius: 18”
- Recommended Radius: 22
- DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operates on DC layouts
- 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