Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2, Soo Line/Red & White/Parallelogram/Saturn 6552 Strobe Light

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New road numbers
• Era: 1974 to early 1980s
• Soo Series 775 to 785; 10/1974
  • Road number-specific variations in data labels and placement
• Road number 775 
  • Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn with reversed forward trumpets on angled cab roof, right side 
  • LED-illuminated Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
• Road numbers 780, 781, 782, and 786
  • Lost-wax brass Leslie SU-3L-LRO horn on angled cab roof, right side 
  • LED-illuminated Saturn 6552 strobe Light*
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• 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 tricolor front and rear flush-mounted class lights with raised gaskets***
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• “Straddle” type re-rail frogs
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow without multiple unit (MU) hose doors; with 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, painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
• As-delivered pilot faces without corner notches
• Deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with solid end rails
• No drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and straight 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
• Rear cab side vent on right 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 left side of cab
• 2-panel all-weather windows mounted on right cab side
• Standard EMD sunshade with long sunshade track on left side
• Motorola ASP-16 “firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from the rear of the cab
• Early “stand-off” ECAFB 
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• 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
• Wheel faces painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of wheelsets in service
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder mounted to third axle on left front 
• Rearward-facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
• 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only) and angled 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.