Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Missouri-Kansas-Texas/As-Delivered

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New roadname
• Era: early 1980s
• Series 619 to 628; built 7/1980
  • Road numbers 620 and 625
• Series 629 to 636; built 8-9/1981
  • Road numbers 629, 632 and 635
• Fully-assembled
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped) 
• 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 Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with 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
• 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
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on right side
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
• Dash-2 cab with welded 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 at bottom mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
• Front mounted lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-5T-R horn mounted cab numberboard housing with all chimes facing forward
• Rear mounted lost-wax brass cast Leslie S25 horn mounted on rear of long hood with single chime facing rearward
• Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Late electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, closer to rear of cab
• Late welded ECAFB
• Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail 
• “Post-1980” exhaust silencer
• Accurately-profiled "post-1980" extended-range (bulged) dynamic brake housing 
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through 48” single-speed radiator "Q-Fans” with fan blades visible inside
• Drop grab 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
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorders mounted to first and third axles on left front
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Tab-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 dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), 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
• Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-318 MKT Green, TCP-319 MKT Yellow
• 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.