Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Chessie System/As Delivered/B&O

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Era: 1977 through late 1980s/early 1990s
• B&O series 7600 to 7619; built 1-2/1977
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• 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*
• LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gaskets**
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front Chessie “rock pilot” plow and rear Chessie “rock pilot”
• Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside 
• Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the engineer’s side 
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffers 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; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
• Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
• Front and rear late small deck extension
• Handrail set with outward-facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Front and rear "step-down" drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on lower right side
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
• Dash-2 cab with 13-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
• Forward cab side vent on left side
• 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 top mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LA horn mounted on number board housing
• “Whip” antenna mounted to center of cab roof
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of 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, early 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 third axle on left front 
• Reward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads without holes (intermediate)
• Spare knuckle basket on walkway
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• 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

** 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