The Rivet Counter version of the ScaleTrains.com HO scale General Electric ET44 features prototype-specific detailing and an ESU LokSound Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Senior editor Dana Kawala used two of these superdetailed locomotives to haul a freight train along the main line of the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine & Troy layout.
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By Angela Cotey | November 28, 2017
| Last updated on April 21, 2021
This HO scale locomotive comes equipped with an ESU LokSound decoder with Full Throttle diesel effects
Dear Dana,
I would like to ask you if you did adjustments to any locomotive CV’s for this demonstration, like changing CV’s 3 and 4 to alter the acceleration and deceleration ratios or to increase or decrease the different sound values?
And if so, would you be so kind to give us the CV’s you modified and the values you introduced, please ??
Thank you for your attention
Very nice locomotives as I saw them at Trainfest. Great demo session Dana with one as a DPU and realistic ops. Good camera angles highlighting the scenery with the train adding to the realism. Keep up the great reviews of new products.
Shouldn’t the pusher engine be displaying red lights?
I cannot get the ditch lights to flash one one that I have, it is a rivet counter CSX also. Any special buttons to push to accomplish this?
That’s one heck of a rear end device!
A little disappointing that the CSX loco sunshade was almost coming off and the left number was very crooked.
Beautiful models. Really neat watching those bearing caps rotate. Packaging might need a little work to protect the cab window sunshade better though. It’s always interesting to watch the pusher trains on the UP through Texas as it seems the pushers run the throttle a notch higher than the lead locomotives.
Engine sound is to loud and the horn needs to be a lot louder.
Wow Dana, that is some impressive detail on those engines. I think I’ve seen these CSX monsters rolling through Huntington, WV with a tanker train lately. Sweet sounds. Thanks.
Who did the “Go Vikings”graffiti on the first car.
Scale Trains continues to raise the bar. Providing excellent locomotive models.
Rick Neibert
Really, Dana, it took two (2) big motors to get that short, small train up the hill? Other that the fact that these are way too new for my tastes; not too bad looking and sounding engines. It would seem that Lok Sound is becoming an industry norm.
No crew! It’s a ghost train! Why no crew?
Interesting placement of the locos, one on each end, facing out. This configuration is often used, I believe, in a switching run where each loco handles its own trailing moves independently as needed. Industrial parks with no internal run-around also utilize this setup. I assume the two locos were consisted rather than using two individual engineers. The larger Digitrax throttle with two controls works beautifully with this ops scheme. One loco is assigned to each throttle, and the engineer makes and breaks the consist as needed.