Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Rock Island/Red & Yellow

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New roadname 
• Era: 1973 to 1980 
• RI Series 4790-4790, built 12/1973
• Fully-assembled
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• 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; flush-mounted rear class lights with raised gaskets***
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
• 4-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 without loop handles
• As-delivered pilot faces with 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 inward-facing stanchion mounting brackets, and gangway chain
• Front and rear standard drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
• Dash-2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) side window panels
• Rectangular vent on right cab 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, mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass Nathan P-5 (P135R24) horn mounted on number board housing
• Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
• Early “stand-off” ECAFB 
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails 
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Non-dynamic brake housing 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
• 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
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• GE speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to first axle on left front 
• Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HT-C trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Forward 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 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