Rivet Counter N Scale EMD SD40-2, Norfolk Southern/Admiral Cab

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 2011 to Present
• NS Series 3204-3243 (Broken), Rebuilt Starting 2011
• Curry Rail services built "Admiral Cab" design low short hood, cab and sub-base
• Juniata Shops designed anticlimbers 
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Operating front and rear deck mounted alternating LED ditch lights*
• Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
• Pilot face mounted battery charging receptacle 
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
• 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 four inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
• Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
• Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacle mounted to pilot face
• "Tall" stepwells 
• Handrail set with front and rear anticlimber
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Rear Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
• Front high front LED-illuminated headlight
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Tall mirrors mounted fore and aft of cab side windows on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and short sunshade tracks
• Lost wax brass cast Nathan P5R24 horn mounted to rear of dynamic brake housing
• Large Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” (Locotrol/EOT) antenna mounted to cab roof
• 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
• Accurately profiled Extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
• “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
• Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
• Handbrake relocated to left side of long hood; brake chain mounted to left rear sideframe
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers and dual vertical gauges 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