ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD45 - DCC Ready - Penn Central 'White Logo'

With countless railroad, road number, and era specific details, the Rivet Counter HO Scale SD45 is the definitive model of this ground-breaking high horsepower locomotive. First built in 1966, the SD45 served numerous Class I railroads and eventually secondhand owners and shortlines. Most including rebuilds were retired by the early 2000s.

Road Number Specific Features:

• Era: early 1970s to mid 1970s
• Phase Ib1

• Series 6105 to 6122 (ex-PRR), built 10/66
• Series 6123 to 6138 (ex-PRR), built 11/66
• Late (2-strap) cab signal cabinet on top of battery box, engineer’s side
• Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn mounted center rear of number board housing

• Series 6141 to 6166 (ex-PRR), built 01/67
• Late (2-strap) cab signal cabinet on top of battery box, engineer’s side
• Lost-wax Leslie RS-3L-R horn mounted center rear of number board housing

• Series 6141 to 6166 (ex-PRR), built 01/67
• Early (3-strap) cab signal cabinet on top of battery box, engineer’s side
• Lost-wax Leslie RS-3L-R horn mounted center rear of number board housing

• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating LED, red-only marker lights**
• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive
• Printed and LED-lighted number boards
• Front and rear full-width MU hose catch trays without footboards
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Pivoting front and rear drop steps
• Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
• 81” low short hood with plated-over handbrake location
• Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
• Early straight grabs and “flipped” nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top; top and side grabs relocated to left side to clear cab signal cabinet
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• No cab vents
• Sliding cab windows
• Tall square corner clear wind wings with mirrors at the bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• No sunshades
• No arm rests
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof
• Accurate hood door and long hood details
• Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
• No ECAFB
• Early (smooth) blower duct housing
• Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Standard-height dust bin
• Standard-height exhaust stack
• Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes
• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
• “Chickenwire” radiator intake grilles with diamond-pattern mesh screens
• Standard-height fan housings
• Photoetched spiral-ring fan grilles with center disk
• Long walkway duct with three short stanchions
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with four brackets
• Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
• 4-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Dual early (angled) deck-mounted MU receptacles
• Short “nub-bottom” pilot face
• Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
• Pilot face grab iron with inner mounting points
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Tall jacking pads with holes
• Sill-mount EFCO button
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauge, and round dial fuel gauge per side
• Detailed Flexicoil-C (high-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder second axle, right side
• ACI labels attached to long hood sides
• Factory-applied detail parts: wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much 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”

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
• Dual cube-type speakers
• EMD 20-Cylinder 645E3 turbocharged prime mover sounds
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

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