Innovation! Delivery April 2027

Pre-order deadline: 9/28/2026

• with DCC Decoder
• with Sound

All-new model Era: 2026 to Present Series 3970 to 3987; ex-CREX 1501 to 1525 built 12/2015 Fully-assembled LED-illuminated front and rear deck-mounted ditch lights** Directional LED headlights Printed and LED lighted number boards* Body-mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible, molded in a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service Inside loop uncoupling levers with up-down brackets Single trainline hose with silver gladhand Dual front dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face Front raised and rear flush pilot-mounted Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles Walkway with front anticlimber; no support brackets GE “nub” pattern walkway tread Late handrails with U-bolt caps and wide rear-most stanchion on long side Wide profile end handrails Sand box clean out door with knuckle buster latch and hinge Front nose headlight Front straight grab irons mounted directly to the nose Right nose door with window Nose door grab iron Front high-mounted (cab) numberboard housings Dual cab side blue flag holder Left side under cab front access bolted X panel; rear door with square corrugated grille Late cab with 4 side windows Detailed cab interior Tinted cab side windows Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides Switching mirror mounted between rear of sliding cab side windows and fixed rear window on engineer’s side Cab roof GE communications handler octagonal dome, and dual short STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System with Radome covers Inverter Cabinet with Bolted and hinged access door, top two X panels same size, three lower X panels with 4 - 6 - 4 Bolt Pattern Left side dynamic brake cab: X panel front and dual blower dynamic brake with flush exhaust Right side dynamic brake cab: X panel door, small grille, door with grille, and door with grille Dynamic brake cab door with low door handle and low-mounted door handle bumper Short right side air intake grille Left side auxiliary cab: 3 tall doors with latches on the #2 door and long auxiliary cab filter box door Right side auxiliary cab: 4 doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors ET44 style engine cab doors: latched center door in each set of three Nathan AirChime K5HLR2 horn mounted on engine cab roof ET44 style exhaust stack Left side exhaust cab doors: latched center door in set of three Flush heat exchanger housing with two-piece wide slot grille Late raised radiator grille Left side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles - tall-short-tall-short-tall, no grille under brake wheel, short front angled grille, and two-piece rear angled grille Right side radiator cab grille arrangement: Raised doors. Grilles – tall, short, tall, short, short, tall, short, tall, short front angled grill, two-piece rear angled grille Flat water fill box with sight glass High-mounted horizontal rear headlight Rear wide-spaced dual dummy Multiple Unit (MU) receptacles Accurately profiled frame with separately applied plumbing and cabling GE Hi-Ad trucks with reinforcement plate over center axle on right front and left rear side frames and separately applied brake cylinders, single bracket air plumbing Curved handbrake chain bracket Toilet drain with interior handle Dual Graham-White (Prime) finned 075 air filters Graham-White 994-500 air dryer 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank, digital fuel gauge, vertical fuel gauge, and round fuel gauge Dual fuel fills per side with rear fill “blanked” Angled top left side fuel tank top box Digital Fuel Gauges Factory-applied wire grab irons, snowplow with molded grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, air tanks, fuel tank-mounted bell, brake wheel, 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 Packaging safely stores model Minimum radius: 9 ¾” Recommended radius: 11” DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature: ESU-LokSound 5 DCC and Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” Cube-type speaker Accurate GEVO-12 prime mover and auxiliary sounds, horn, bell, and more Operates on both DC and DCC layouts