EMD SD40-2 (Rivet Counter)

ScaleTrains H0

Model Features:
° Fully-assembled
° LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
° LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
° LED-illuminated front tricolor stand-off class lights; flush-mounted rear class lights with raised gaskets***
° Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
° Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
° 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
° Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
° Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
° As-delivered pilot faces with angled lifting slots
° Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
° “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
° Front and rear early small deck extension
° Handrail set with inward-facing stanchion mounting brackets, and gangway chain
° Front and rear standard drop steps
° Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
° 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
° Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
° Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
° Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
° Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
° Rectangular vent on right cab side
° Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
° Sliding cab side windows
° Tall clear wind wings with mirror, mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
° Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
° Lost-wax brass Nathan P-5 (P135R24) horn mounted on number board housing
° Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
° Accurate hood door and long hood detail
° Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
° Early “stand-off” ECAFB
° Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
° Standard turbo exhaust stack
° Non-dynamic brake housing with batten strip
° See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
° “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
° See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
° Curved radiator fan grab iron
° Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
° Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
° Dimensionally accurate truck centers
° GE speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to first axle on left front
° Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HT-C trucks
° Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
° Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
° Tab-mount EFCO
° Frame-mounted steel bell
° Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
° 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
° Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, 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 even under magnification
° Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
° Packaging safely stores model
° Minimum radius: 18”
° Recommended radius: 22”

DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
° ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
° Two (2) cube-type speakers
° Turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
° ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
° Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
° Operates on DC layouts
° DCC ready with 21-pin connector

* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate

*** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

**** “PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout