Description
Railroad Short Name: CSX
Features:
- Era: 2013 to Present
- CSXT Series 4040-4049, rebuilt into SD40-3s in 2013
- Road number 4042 rebuilt from Family Lines/ CRR SD40-2 8132
- Features yellow plow
- CSX designed anticlimbers
- NRE-built replacement low short hood, cab, and sub-base
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED-illuminated front deck-mounted ditch lights*
- BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
- Blanked front and rear class lights
- Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
- Front EMD-style low pilot plow with grab irons and without multiple unit (MU) hose doors
- 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 with high angled lifting slots
- Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacle mounted to pilot face
- “Tall” stepwells
- Wide “blunt” front pilot anticlimber
- Handrail set with anticlimber front; inward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Late “fixed” rear drop step
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Round walkway lights (non-operating)
- 88″ low short hood with wheel handbrake
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Front retrofitted LED-illuminated headlight cut into nose, blanked number board light
- 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 left side
- Small mirrors mounted fore of cab side windows on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LA horn relocated to the long hood roof
- Tall and short (comm. and EOT) “Firecracker” antennas on cab roof
- 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 standard-range dynamic brakes with 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
- Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
- Rearward engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-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 dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank (right side only), vertical breather pipe and waste retention tank
- 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 Features:
- 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
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