Rivet Counter N Scale GE C39-8 Phase III, Norfolk Southern/Ditch Lights / 8614 / DCC & Sound Equipped

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers 8614 and 8627
  • Series 8614 to 8638; built 1986
  • Early 2000s modifications with retrofitted hashed sill stripes and paint variations
  • 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
  • Short hood without blanked lower headlight housing
  • Large front and rear snowplows with grab irons 
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted alternating ditch lights***
• Blanked front and rear class lights
• Printed and LED-illuminated front and rear number boards*
• Retrofitted vertical nose 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 and rear drop steps
• GE “nub” tread plate on walkways
• 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
• 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
• Late (4-panel) radiator exhaust photo-etched grilles
• Exhaust silencer with extension
• 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”