Rivet Counter N Scale EMD SD40-2, Southern/High Hood/Gold Lettering

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: mid-1970s to early 1980s
• SOU 3217-3240 Phase Ia2 unit built in 1973
• Road number 3224J – standard
• Road number 3240X – sub-lettered CNOT&P
• High long hood mounted steel bell
• Southern/NS sun awning 
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Class lights (non-operating)
• Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
• Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch trays
• 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 with battery charging receptacle
• "Tall" stepwells 
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Late “fixed” drop steps 
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Short and long hood top mounted walkway lights (non-operating) 
• 81” high short hood with ratchet handbrake, angled handbrake chain guard, and toilet vent
• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Front LED-illuminated headlight mounted in high short hood
• 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 right side
• Tall clear wind wings with mirror at bottom mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Front and rear lost wax brass cast Nathan P3 horns with all chimes forward
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab
• 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
• Drop grab 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
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• 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 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