ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD40T-2 - DCC Ready - Cotton Belt

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

Road Number Specific Details:
Cotton Belt

Road numbers 8323 and 8325

• Era: as-built, series SSW 8322-8326, built 1978
• “M” with lightning bolt on cab side, indicating a Locotrol Master unit
• 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

• Era: early 1980s, series SSW 8372-8376, built 1978
• “R” with lightning bolt on cab side, indicating a Locotrol Remote unit
• “El Paso Crossroads” maintenance stickers on cab sub-base doors
• SSW 8372 has “EP” (El Paso) homeport initials on cab side
• SSW 8374 has “El Paso” homeport lettering on cab side
• Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details

• 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
• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
• Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
• Front pilot anticlimber
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Round walkway lights (non-operating)
• 123” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top
• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
• SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Rear cab side vent on left side
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn on clearance bracket; offset to engineer’s side and mounted on number board housing
• Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
• Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin, and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits
• Extended-range dynamic brakes
• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets; straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
• Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
• Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
• Four-hole SP jacking pads
• Sill-mount EFCO
• 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
• Speed recorder first axle, left side
• ACI labels attached to long hood sides

• Fully assembled (except undecorated)
• Specially designed low-profile drivetrain with completely hidden rear gear tower and driveshaft
• Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor details
• Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
• 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 die-cast 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”

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