ScaleTrains Rivetcounter (N) EMD SD40-3 Union Pacific/Fast Forty - DCC/sound
ScaleTrains Rivet Counter | N-scale (1:160) | diesel locomotives
EMD SD30-3
Union Pacific/Fast Forty, UP
| Item Number | Road Number | Stock Status |
| SXT38617 | # 8099 |
ESU-LokSound 5 Micro DCC and sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
The Rivet Counter series SD40-2 is the definitive N 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 first built nearly half a century ago, many continue to operate in revenue service today.
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Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- All-new model
- Era: As delivered, series 8077-8099, built 1979 Phase IId2
- Road numbers 8077, 8080, 8094 and 8099
- UP “Fast Forties” Geared to run with DDA40Xs
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Class lights (non operating)
- Saturn 6552 Strobe Light (non operating)
- Printed and LED-illumintaed number boards*
- Front tall pilot plow with high trainline hose cut out, 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 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 late small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain; break-away stanchions on both ends
- Late “fixed” 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
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight in number board housing
- Dash two cab with welded side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Rear cab side vent on left side
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on right and left side of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and short sunshade tracks
- Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on number board housing
- 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 without 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, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
- Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Sill-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge and round gauge on stand
- 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
