Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter GP40 Western Pacific “without Front Pilot Stripes” #3530

Description

Railroad Short Name: WP

Features:

• Era: 1970s
  • Series WP 3527-3544, built 8-9/1971
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Road number WP 3530
• Wrecked and repaired shortly after delivery, but repainted without orange pilot-face stripes
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
• LED-illuminated Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 “Gyralite” dual signal light (clear and red lenses) mounted in low short hood*
• LED-illuminated tri-color, flush-mounted front and rear class lights with raised gaskets
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• Tall “Western” style pilot plow with grab irons on front, and rear “late” MU hose catch box with “Morton” round-hole footboards
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front angled uncoupling lever without loop handles, and rear straight uncoupling lever without loop handles
• Square-corner pilot face, front and rear
• Full-width grab iron above uncoupling lever on front and rear pilot faces
• “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
• “Tall” stepwells with “zig-zag” pilots, front and rear
• End handrails with deck-mounted stanchions, front and rear
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Positionable straight (late) drop steps, front and rear
• Late treadplate
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
• Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
• Early cab sub-base doors with non-terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
• Dual right rear cab steps
• Late cab step guards (short taper)
• Hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
• Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrests, both sides
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, cab blowers, rear wall, early seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Positionable cab side windows
• Tall mirror mounted ahead of cab window, fireman’s side
• Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
• Lost-wax cast brass Nathan AirChime M5 (M5R24) horn mounted on number board housing
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
• Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high on fireman’s side)
• Small ECAFB
• Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
• Late long handrail stanchion spacing with all “tall” stanchions overall
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Late standard-range dynamic brake housing (long tapers), with rectangular vent
• See-through 48” dynamic brake fan housing mounted on riser ring with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill
• Dynamic brake intakes with see-through intake vanes, and resistor grid detail inside of the housing
• Rectangular-mesh radiator intake screening
• See-through standard-height 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
• Separately-applied radiator core detail mounted inside of long hood, visible under radiator fans
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight and standard housing
• Early rear sander door catch placement (inboard)
• Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
• Detailed Blomberg-B truck frames (LFM-cast) with Hyatt bearing housings, separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
• Separately-applied flexible neoprene sanding lines at both ends of trucks
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• “Aeroquip” brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
• Standard 4 jacking pads
• Frame-mounted bell
• Salem-brand #824-170 and #818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
• Separately-applied brake vent regulator valve and plumbing detail on underbody
• 3600-gallon fuel tank with late mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on both sides, and early rear drain bar
• Separately-applied:
  • Fuel fillers, drains, and breather piping on fuel tanks
  • Engine oil sump drain fitting with hose
  • Radiator water drain fitting on underbody
  • Truck air line plumbing on underbody above each truck, both sides
  • Wireform grab irons, wireform lift rings, etched windshield wipers, trainline hoses, sand hatch covers, and more
• Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Directional LED-illuminated 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”