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
