Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, CSX/YN2/Ditch Lights

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Era: 1991 to mid 1990s
• Series 8182 to 8211; ex-L&N 3554 to 3583, built 10-12/1974
• Road number 8192
  • Front EMD-style tall pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
  • Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside
  • Round vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
  • 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
• Road number 8199
  • Front EMD-style tall pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
  • Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside
  • Round vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
  • 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
• Road number 8203
  • Round vent retrofitted to right side of low hood 
  • Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
  • Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
  • Detailed HT-C trucks with rotating Timken bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-illuminated CSX style front deck 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*
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• 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 without lifting holes or slots
• Front pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, rear mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles with permanently attached MU cable plugged into Dummy deck mounted receptacles
• "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with inward 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 straight chain guard
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Standard EMD headlight mounted on low nose, upper headlight location blanked over
• 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 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 K5LR24 horn mounted on numberboard housing
• Retrofitted CSX style EOT antenna mounted over original radio “whip” base
• 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 extended-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
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• GE type speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to first axle on left front 
• Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the fireman’s side 
• Graham-White 975-100 “Twin-Tower” air dryer assembly; retrofitted to rear of air reservoir on fireman’s side
• Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 air filter (can style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauge in tank sides, electronic fuel gauge 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.