ScaleTrains Rivet Counter (HO) EMD SD40-2, Union Pacific/SD40N Rebuild/116" Snoot Nose - DCC/Sound
ScaleTrains Rivet Counter | HO Scale | Diesel Locomotive - DCC/Sound
EMD SD40-2
UP #1838, Union Pacific
/SD40N Rebuild/116" Snoot Nose
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The Rivet Counter™ series SD40-2 is the definitive HO Scale model of EMD’s best-selling diesel locomotive. Our model combines smooth operating performance with unparalleled railroad, road number, and era specific details™. Even though the first SD40-2s were built 50 years ago, many continue in revenue freight service today.
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Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- New road numbers
- Era: 2013 to present
- Series 1550 to 2052 (SD40N mixed from various sources); ex-UP 3335 to 3399, built 2-5/1977
- Road number 1656
- Small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (Locotrol/EOT) mounted on right front on numberboard housing
- Stand from removed horn mounted center front on numberboard housing
- Road number 1838
- Small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (Locotrol/EOT) mounted center front on numberboard housing
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated front and rear pilot face mounted ditch lights**
- LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
- Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
- Dayton-Phoenix 2807000 cab roof mounted HVAC
- Late SP/UP-style pilot plow with grab irons, Rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch baskets
- 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 angled, rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- As-delivered pilot faces with reinforced lifting holes
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
- "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain; break-away stanchions on both ends
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- 116” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake, stand-off equipment access door
- Round vent retrofitted to right side of low hood
- Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
- Dash-2 cab with replacement UP SD40N side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3HAR2 horn with shower caps on riser relocated to rear of dynamic brake housing
- JEM Communications PTC antenna array cabinet mounted to rear of cab roof, “Whip” antenna mounted on right side of cab numberboard housing
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- 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 extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Corrugated 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, 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
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle on left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads without holes (intermediate)
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Graham-White 975-100 “Twin-Tower” air dryer assembly; retrofitted to rear of air reservoir on fireman’s side
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 primary centrifugal air filter (accordion-style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, 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 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.
