Scale Trains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor - DCC Ready - Southern Pacific

The unique SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” was the backbone of the Rio Grande and Southern Pacific fleets during the 1970s and 1980s. They were distinguished by the large see-through radiator grilles at the rear of the locomotive just above the walkway. Our Rivet Counter series model is the first and only SD40T-2 to feature a fully hidden rear driveshaft and gear tower so the “tunnel” is completely see-through without any visible obstructions.

Features:

• Era: 1978 through early 1980s
• Series 8357-8371, built 2/78 – 4/78
• Fully assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• SP nose headlight package
• Operating front and rear red LED Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites*
• Operating front and rear LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” signal light*
• Operating LED front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights**
• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Directional LED headlights
• Specially designed low-profile drivetrain completely hides the rear gear tower and driveshaft
• Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail
• See-through etched-metal radiator intake screens
• Etched-metal radiator exhaust grilles with radiator shutters visible underneath
• Front and rear late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
• Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
• Front pilot anticlimber
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
• Handrail ends painted white
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
• Round walkway lights (non-operating)
• 123” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn on clearance bracket; offset to engineer’s side and mounted on number board housing
• Original cab front door
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab windows
• Tall clear wind wings with angled top corners mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade track
• Rear cab side vent on left side
• Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
• Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
• “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• ACI labels attached to long hood sides
• Accurate hood door and long hood molded details
• Extended-range dynamic brakes
• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• 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
• GE Speed recorder first axle, left side
• Four-hole SP jacking pads
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Single Prime air filter (can style)
• Standard air tanks
• 4,400 gallon fuel tank with reinforced tank edges where sides meet the tank ends, dual fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, round gauge on stand and vertical breather pipe
• Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature

• Operable using a DC power pack
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector

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

** In DC operation, the class lights are white in color only; red and green are selectable when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating in DC

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