Scaletrains Rivet Counter SXT38481 AC4400CW Southern Pacific #63 DCC & Sound

Image is representative of the paint scheme. Item for purchase is #163 - See notes below for road number specific detail

Locomotive is equipped with ESU Loksound V5 Sound Decoder

HO Scale


  • All-new model 
  • Era: 1995 to Late-90s
  • SP 100-378, built 4-10/95
  • Series 100 to 199; built 4-5/95
  • Road number 163 
    • Left side auxiliary cab: three (3) tall doors with latches on the #2
    • No capacitor box on left side walkway 
    • Single large Sinclair “ice skate” communication antenna, and small Sinclair “ice skate” End of Train (EOT) telemetry antenna
    • Late Hi-Ad trucks with “Cantilever” shock snubbers deleted from left front and right rear
  • Fully-assembled 
  • Multiple road numbers
  • No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
  • Operating LED-illuminated front, rear, and side walkway lights*
  • Operating LED-illuminated front deck-mounted alternating ditch lights**
  • Printed high-mount cab number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
  • Tall snowplow with open doors and two (2) grab irons
  • Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
  • 5-step stepwells with see-through steps
  • Walkway with front anticlimber
  • GE “nub” pattern walkway tread
  • Narrow profile end handrails
  • Dual dummy and single live pilot face MU connections
  • Front nose headlight
  • Nose door with window 
  • Two-piece nose top grab irons
  • Battery cabinet access door without latch
  • GE safety cab with three (3) side windows
  • Right side cab under floor access doors: four screened louver sections per door
  • Left side cab under floor access doors: dual latch door with grille forward of the HVAC unit
  • Cab interior with detailed back wall and front dash, high-back seats, conductor’s workstation, and engineer’s desktop controls
  • Tinted cab side windows
  • Tall mirror mounted in front of sliding cab side windows on both sides; additional small mirror on right side
  • Early inverter cabinet: six (6) tall vertical rectangular bolted panels and three (3) horizontal short panels
  • Alternating reinforcement ribs under dynamic brake intake grilles
  • Standard dynamic brake exhaust (2-port)
  • Forward right-side air intake grille
  • Right side auxiliary cab: four (4) doors with latches on #1 and #4 doors
  • Early curved engine cab profile
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P3 (P24R1 configuration) horn mounted on engine cab
  • Early flanged exhaust stack housing
  • “Bathtub” exhaust silencer
  • 26 individually-applied etched metal see-through radiator intake and exhaust grilles on sides and top of radiator compartment
  • Late radiator door grilles in alternating heights
  • Standard brake wheel
  • Left rear hood door grille arrangement: tall, short, short grilles
  • Tall, latched access door on long hood end
  • Low-mounted rear sand fill
  • Early “box” lifting lugs on ends of radiator wings 
  • Accurately profiled frame with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cabling
  • Rotating axle bearing caps
  • No speed recorder
  • Dual Graham-White (Prime) 975-075 air filters
  • Graham-White 975-100 “twin tower” air filter dryer
  • 5,000-gallon fuel tank with vertical weld seams
  • Single fuel fills per side
  • Round and vertical analog fuel gauges; digital fuel gauges
  • Fuel tank mounted steel bell
  • Separate air tanks with upper mounting brackets
  • Early square handbrake chain bracket
  • SP-style spare coupler knuckle boxes on rear pilot face
  • Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, spare knuckles, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 3-hose MU clusters with silver gladhands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, sunshades, and more
  • Motor with 5-pole, skew-wound armature
  • Dual flywheels
  • All-wheel drive
  • All-wheel electrical pick-up
  • Directional LED headlights
  • Printing and lettering legible under magnification
  • Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
  • Packaging safely stores model
  • Recommended Radius: 22”


Buyers outside Canada are responsible for any import charges & duties/tariffs charged by your government. US Customers: You will receive an invoice separately for the tariffs the US government is collecting. Failure to pay the the US import tariffs will result in order being cancelled

Canadian Customers: We use UPS Standard Service for Canadian addresses. Items are shipped from the store in Ontario, Canada. UPS WILL NOT DELIVER TO PO BOX ADDRESSES. Canada Post is available for an additional cost. If you are purchasing multiple items, It will not automatically do combined shipping discount. You will need to use request total & if not i can refund the difference after postage value is known when label is made.