Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD40-2B, Burlington Northern/White Face

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 1990s
• Series 7500 to 7502; ex-6340 to 6363 (1st); ex-BN 6352 (1st), built 3/1973
• Road number 7502
  • Burlington Northern wreck-rebuild “B-Unit” high short hood with relocated dynamic brake housing
• Fully-assembled 
• LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• Blanked front class lights with round plate and rear class lights with gasket 
• Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
• 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; four inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
• Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles mounted to pilot face
• "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
• High front headlight
• 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 standard-range dynamic brakes without 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, 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
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face and on left side fuel tank
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• 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), vertical breather pipe, and waste retention tank
• 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 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.