Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Burlington Northern/Bicentennial #1876

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New paint scheme
• Era: 1975 to 1979 
• Series 6325 to 6339; former BN 6325, built 2/1972
• Road number 1878
  • Unique Bicentennial paint scheme
  • Non-standard lifting lugs on long hood radiator section
  • BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
• Fully-assembled 
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• LED-illuminated front tricolor stand-off class lights***
• LED-illuminated Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD-style high pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch tray
• 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
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Front and rear standard drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
• 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
• Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna 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 
• 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
• “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
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder mounted to third axle on left front 
• Rearward 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 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, 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
• 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 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.