ScaleTrains Rivet Counter (N) EMD SD40-2, UP 8059 Union Pacific /Fast Forty/116" Snoot Nose - DCC/sound
ScaleTrains Rivet Counter | N-scale (1:160) | diesel locomotives
EMD SD40-2
CP, Union Pacific
/Fast Forty/116" Snoot Nose
| Item Number | Road Number | Stock Status |
| SXT40735 | #8059 |
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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Rivet Counter SD40-2s include detailed cab interiors; sectioned treadplate on walkways; numerous factory-applied wireform grab irons; windshield wipers; trainline hoses with silver gladhands; and more. They also come equipped with directional LED-lit headlights and number boards, plus front and rear LED-lighted ditch lights (per the prototype).
Road Number Specific ScaleTrains
- New road numbers
- Era: As delivered 1976 to early 1980s
- Series 8035 to 8064;built 9-1976
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Class lights (non-operating)
- Saturn 6552 Strobe Light (non-operating)
- Printed and LED-illuminated 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
- Angled uncoupling levers front and rear and four inner mounting brackets
- As-delivered pilot faces with reinforced lifting holes
- 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
- Standard front and rear drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- 116” “snoot” 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 bolted side window panels
- Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Rear cab side vent on right side
- Tall clear wind wings with mirror at top mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Early awning type sunshade
- Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-L horn with clearance bracket on long hood
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on number board housing
- Early electrical cabinet "zig-zag" seam, further from rear of cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Standard turbo exhaust stack
- Accurately profiled extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- 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
- GE type speed recorder mounted to third axle on left side
- Reward 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
- Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (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
