Rivet Counter N Scale EMD SD40-2, Chessie System/B&O

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 1977 - early 80s
• B&O 7600-7619 Phase IIa2 units built in 1977
  • Chessie “mailslot” battery box doors with battery terminals visible inside
  • Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the engineer’s side
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Class lights (non-operating)
• Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
• Front and rear Chessie “rock pilot plows” 
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
• Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
• Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
• Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
• "Tall" stepwells 
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Front and rear "step-down" drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and lower right-hand side round vent
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Front Standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight in number board housing
• Dash two cab with bolted side window panels
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Forward cab side vent on left side
• Tall clear wind wings with mirror at top mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and short sunshade tracks
• Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K5LA horn mounted on number board housing
• “Whip” antenna mounted to cab roof
• Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
• Late welded ECAFB
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Accurately profiled Standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
• Corrugated 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
• Speed recorder mounted to third axle left front
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads without holes (intermediate)
• Spare knuckle basket on walkway
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Salem air filter (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, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, 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 55 and 80 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
• Recommended radius: 11”
• DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature
  • ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
  • One (1) cube-type speaker
  • EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
  • Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

• DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature
• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with E24 connector

* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC