Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Burlington Northern/As Delivered

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Era: Early 1970s-Early 1980s 
• Series 6325-6339, built 1-2/1972
• Road numbers 6325, 6327, 6333 and 6339 
  • Operating LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
  • Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gaskets***
  • Front and rear late small deck extension
  • Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
  • Front and rear standard drop steps
  • 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
  • BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
  • Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers 
• Operating LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• Operating LED-illuminated Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
• 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
• As-delivered pilot faces without corner notches 
• Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
• 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
• Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3K-R horn mounted on the cab
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
• Early “stand-off” ECAFB 
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails 
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Accurately-profiled standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• “Chicken-wire” 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, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder mounted to third axle on left front 
• Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-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 fuel fillers, vertical gauges, 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 more
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Directional LED headlights
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores 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 changing colors an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

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