Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, BNSF/Heritage I/Ditch Lights/Green Walkway

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Era: mid 1990s to mid 2000s
• BNSF Series 7029-7048, 8010-8029; ex-BN 7029-7048, 8010-8029, built 2-3/1978
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Road number-specific repaint variations
• Road number 7040 
  • Rear cab side vent on left side
  • Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-K horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
  • Additional access door on right side dynamic brake housing
• Road number 7047 
  • Rear cab side vent on left side
  • Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-K horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
  • Additional access door on right side dynamic brake housing
• Road number 8010 
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR24 horn relocated to dynamic brake housing
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-illuminated front deck mounted ditch lights**
• LED-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• Blanked front class lights with round plate
• Blanked rear class lights with gasket 
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with grab irons
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers, painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and four inner mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
• Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
• "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
• Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
• Handrail set with anticlimber front; outward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Rear late “fixed” drop step
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on lower right side
• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Retrofitted headlight cut into nose; blanked number board light
• Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab side windows
• Small mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
• Tall Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab, short EOT “firecracker” mounted on number board housing
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Late electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, closer to the rear of the cab
• Late welded ECAFB
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• 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
• Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front, additional speed recorder mounted to third axle on right front
• Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Tab-mount EFCO
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), and vertical breather pipe 
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores the model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Turbocharged EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector

* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC.

** In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate.

*** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and change the colors with an appropriately programmed ESU decoder while operating using DCC.

**** “PowerPack” feature is only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout.