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.
Conrail SD40-2 Features:
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