ScaleTrains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD45 - DCC & Sound - Santa Fe
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. While no longer used by Class 1 railroads, some SD45s and SD45 carbodies remain in service today with shortlines and regionals.Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- Era: 1970s, Series ATSF 5530-5589 (Ex-1830-1889), built 10-12/66, Phase Ib1
- Road numbers 5536 and 5588
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on dust bin
- Lettering and data placement variations
- Road numbers 5549, 5571 and 5579
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R “Low Profile” (#25 and #31 chimes swapped); mounted center rear of number board housing
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on dust bin
- Lettering and data placement variations
- Road number 5563
- Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
- Can type antenna mounted on dust bin
- Lettering and data placement variations
All Santa Fe SD45s include
- Operating LED-lit Prime PM-8901 Stratolite Beacon
- Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
- Operating LED-lit ground lights
- Front and rear MU hose retainer grab irons
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Pivoting front and rear drop steps
- “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
- “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
- 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
- “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
- Small mirror mount fore of the cab side windows, both sides
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- No cab vents
- Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
- No ECAFB
- Early (smooth) blower duct housing
- Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
- Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
- Photoetched spiral ring grilles with center disk
- Long walkway duct (three short stanchions)
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and four inner and two outer brackets
- Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
- 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Early (angled) deck-mounted MU receptacle
- Short “nub-bottom” pilot face
- Tall jacking pads with holes
- Sill-mount EFCO button
- Frame-mounted bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauges, and round fuel gauge on both tank sides
- Detailed Flexicoil (low-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder second axle, left side
- ACI plate mounted to blower duct on left side and rear cab step kickplate on right side
Rivet Counter SD45 Locomotives Also Feature
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Printed and LED-lighted number boards
- Operating LED-lit ground lights
- Scale sectioned walkway treadplate
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Accurate hood door and long hood details
- Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
- Separately applied dust bin and exhaust stack
- Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
- 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, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” 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
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
