Rivet Counter N Scale GE C39-8 Phase II, Norfolk Southern/As Built/Yellow Plow / 8596 / DC/DCC Ready

oad Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: Mid-1990s
• Road number 8596
  • Series 8564 to 8613; built 1986
  • 1994 Chattanooga DeButts Yard Repaint
  • Special high visibility yellow front plow
  • Phase II – Cab with rounded-corner doors, embossed X-panels on the hood end and nose sides, stand-off radiator grills, and no vertical grab iron strips on the long hood end
  • Short hood with blanked lower headlight housing 
  • Small front and rear snowplows with grab irons 
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Non-operating front and rear class lights with lenses
• Printed and LED-illuminated front and rear number boards*
• Semi-scale standard Type E knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible
• Body mounted coupler box – accepts Micro-Trains® 1015/1016 couplers without modification
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Front and rear drop steps
• GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
• Wheel handbrake
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
• Cab sunshades
• Dual wind deflector with mirror mounted fore and aft of sliding cab windows on both sides
• With sunshades
• Nathan P135R24 horn mounted on engine compartment roof
• Dual Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antennas on cab roof (communication and End of Train EOT)
• Left side dynamic brake cab: high-capacity (triple blower) dynamic brake
• Dynamic brake cab roof with triple panel grilles 
• Right side dynamic brake cab: three hinged and latched doors
• Early (6-panel) radiator exhaust photo-etched grilles
• Exhaust silencer with extension
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• Adirondack trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; separate brake cylinders, center axle shock snubber, brake lines and handbrake chain detail; and separate sanding lines and brackets 
• Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters
• Highly-detailed 4,400 gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, round and vertical fuel gauges
• Air reservoirs with separate plumbing
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, MU cables, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, underframe bell, and more
• 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
• Durable packaging safely stores model
• Minimum Radius: 9 ¾”
• Recommended Radius: 11”