Rivet Counter N Scale GE C39-8 Phase III, Conrail/Quality/Ditch Lights / 6009 / DCC & Sound Equipped

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Road number 6009
• Era: late 1990s to early 2000s
  • Conrail “Quality” Scheme
  • Small red “L” next to road number on cab sides, denoting lease service on the Southern Pacific in the early 1990s
  • Operating LED-illuminated front pilot-mounted ditch lights*
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Non-operating front and rear class lights with lenses
• Printed and LED-illuminated front and rear number boards*
• Operating LED-illuminated headlights*
• Phase III – cab with square-corner doors, embossed X-panels on the hood end and nose sides, flush radiator grills with an additional small vertical screen, and no vertical grab iron strips on the long hood end
• Retrofitted “inverted-L” nose grab irons
• Retrofitted tall vertical grab iron on rear end of long hood
• Small front Conrail-style plow with grab irons
• 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 large anticlimber; rear drop step
• GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
• Short hood without blanked lower headlight housing
• Wheel handbrake
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and control stand
• No sunshades
• Single wind deflector with mirror mounted in front of sliding cab windows on both sides
• Leslie RSL-3R horn mounted on offset pedestal on engine compartment
• Large and small Sinclair “Excalibur” cab roof antennas (communication and End of Train EOT)
• Left side dynamic brake cab: standard (dual blower) dynamic brake 
• Dynamic brake cab roof
• Dynamic brake cab roof with dual panel grilles 
• Right side dynamic brake cab: front two hinged and latched doors and bolted rear panel
• Early (6-panel) radiator exhaust photo-etched grilles
• “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
• Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling
• GSC 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”
• DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
  • ESU-LokSound 5 Nano DCC & sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
  • Cube-type speaker
  • Accurate FDL-16 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more
  • Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate