General Electric’s Dash 9 is one of the most identifiable locomotives to ever run the American rails. Generating close to 4,500 horsepower with its electronic fuel injection engines, its impressive performance made it popular with railroads. Packed with all of your favorite features, this engine is finely detailed with safety treads along the side walkways and emergency placards printed on the top and sides of its scale-sized body. It’s also equipped with a smoother running, dual motor system and impressive fan driven smoke unit.

For the first time, Lionel’s Dash 9 in the Amtrak road name can be experienced in the ultra-realism of LEGACY RailSounds, Odyssey II speed control, and the LEGACY Command System.

Features:

• LEGACY Control System equipped – able to run in LEGACY Control mode, in TrainMaster Command Control mode, or in Conventional mode with a standard transformer

• Odyssey II Speed Control with On/Off switch

• LEGACY RailSounds sound system featuring CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements, each with different scenarios depending on whether the locomotive is in motion or stopped

• Six official railroad speeds with CrewTalk dialog

• Eight diesel RPM levels

• LEGACY “Real-Time Quilling Horn” control with instant quilling and correctly timed warning signals

• Single hit or continuous mechanical bell sounds

• Dual powerful maintenance-free motors with momentum flywheels

• Refined Conventional Transformer Control mode with lower starting speeds

• Traction tires

• Front and rear Electrocouplers

• Fan-driven smoke unit

• Adjustable smoke output

• Directional lighting, including LED headlights and operating marker lights

• Illuminated number boards

• Illuminated cab interior

• Die-cast metal trucks, pilot, and fuel tank

• Metal frame

• Separately applied metal details

• Engineer and fireman figures

Locomotive Road Number: 519

Rail Line: Amtrak

Gauge: Standard O

Minimum Curve: O-36

Dimensions: 18”L x 3”W x 4”H