Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Conrail/Large Quality Logo/Ditch Lights

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New paint scheme
• Era: Mid-1990s-Early 2000s 
• Series 6441 to 6482, built 9-11/1978
• Road number 6450:
• Lost-wax brass Leslie RS-3L-R horn with anti-debris covers
• Large Conrail “Quality” logos on hood 
• Standard bolted battery box door on left side with short louvers; bolted and latched Conrail-style “split” battery box door on right side to accommodate Automatic Train Control (ATC) box on top of battery box
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers 
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped) 
• LED-illuminated front pilot face mounted ditch lights**
• 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 and rear red marker lights***
• Operating LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with
  raised gaskets***
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Flange lubrication cabinet
• Two-strap Automatic Train Control (ATC) box 
• Front and rear EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors, 3rd rail notches, and 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
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
• Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
• End handrail set with anticlimber front railings, and outward-facing rear end stanchion mounting brackets with gangway safety chain on rear
• Rear late “fixed” drop step
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake; nose top and side grab irons repositioned to opposed side for Automatic Train Control (ATC) box clearance.
• 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
• Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab side windows
• Tall clear wind wings with mirror mounted fore of cab side window, on both sides of cab
• No sunshades or sunshade tracks
• Large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted to 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 without batten strip
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through low-profile 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Angled radiator fan grab iron
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Detailed Flexicoil-C sideframes with Hyatt bearing caps, high mounted brake cylinders, outer sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air brake duct details  
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• GE type speed recorder mounted to center axle on left front
• Forward-facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil-C trucks
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Flush-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 gauges in tank sides 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