Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Family Lines/L&N

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New roadname
• Era: 1979 to early 1980s 
• Series L&N 8000 to 8033; built 3-4/1979
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped) 
• 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 Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 Gyralite dual signal light mounted in number board housing*
• LED-illuminated tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gaskets***
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch baskets
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffer 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 with high angled lifting slots
• Late deck-mounted MU receptacle with attached permanent MU cable and dummy receptacle on deck
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• Front and rear late small deck extension
• Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Rear late “fixed” drop step
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on lower right side
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
• Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels 
• Rear 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 mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with short sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn mounted to cab roof
• “Whip” antenna mounted on cab roof
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Late electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, closer to the rear of the cab
• Late welded 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
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 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 HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late 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
• GE type speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front 
• Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the conductor’s side
• Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge 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 much more
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores the 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.