HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD40-2 - DCC Ready - Conrail 'Altoona Bike Trails'
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Scale Trains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD40-2 - DCC Ready - Conrail 'Altoona Bike Trails'
The Rivet Counter series SD40-2 is the definitive HO Scale model of EMD’s best-selling diesel locomotive. This model combines smooth operating performance with unparalleled railroad, road number, and era specific details. Even though the first SD40-2s were first built nearly half a century ago, several continue in service today.- Dash two Cab with bolted side window panels
- No sunshades or sunshade tracks
- Standard EMD headlight in numberboard housing
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
- Rear MU hose catch baskets
- Red only marker lights
- 88” low short hood with nose top and side grab irons repositioned to opposed side for ATC box clearance.
- Standard bolted door on left side with short louvers and bolted and latched door on right side to accommodate ATC box on top of battery box
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Front pilot anticlimber
- Late “fixed” rear drop step
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- Rectangle walkway lights (non-operating)
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
- Forward cab side vent on left side
- Leslie RS-3-LR Horn mounted on number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof.
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Late welded ECAFB
- Flange lubrication cabinet
- Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and two inner and two outer brackets
- Handrail set with Anticlimber front and outward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Polit face mounted MU receptacle
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Two strap ATC box
- Notched pilot faces with angled lifting slots
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
- Detailed Flexicoil sideframes with Hyatt bearing cab, high mounted brake cylinders and outer sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder mounted to center axle right front
Rivet Counter SD40-2 Locomotive Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Printed and LED lighted number boards
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab windows
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
- Directional LED headlights
- 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”
DCC & sound ready (DC) locomotives also feature
- Operable using a DC power pack
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
