Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD40-2 Santa Fe “Nose Headlight & Ditch Lights”

Description

Railroad Short Name: ATSF

Features:

• Series 5170 to 5192; built 11/81-12/81
• Road numbers 5170, 5179, 5187
  • Era:  1990s to early 2000s
  • LED-illuminated front deck mounted ditch lights**
  • Front anticlimber support mounted dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles
  • Lost-wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted with clearance bracket relocated to dynamic brake housing
• Road number 5177
  • Era:  1990s to early 2000s
  • LED-illuminated front deck mounted ditch lights**
  • Front anticlimber support mounted dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles
  • Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LAR24 horn with clearance bracket relocated to dynamic brake housing
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
• LED-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• Blanked front class lights with round plate
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Vapor Corporation cab roof mounted HVAC unit
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with multiple unit (MU) hose doors and grab irons
• 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 and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
• Pilot face mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• Front anticlimber support mounted dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Narrow “blunt” front anticlimber
• Handrail set with anticlimber front; outward facing rear end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Rear late “fixed” drop step
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on lower right side
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers and horizontal stiffener rib
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Retrofitted headlight cut into nose; blanked number board light
• Dash-2 cab with welded side window panels
• Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
• 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 short sunshade tracks
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) and conduit on ground plane mounted on cab roof
• Small Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (Locotrol/EOT) and conduit on ground plane on cab roof
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to rear of cab
• Late welded ECAFB
• Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
• “Post-1980” exhaust silencer
• Accurately-profiled “post-1980” extended-range (bulged) dynamic brake housing
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through 48” single-speed radiator “Q-Fans” with fan blades visible inside
• Angled 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
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Spare knuckle holders mounted to truck sideframes
• Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Tab-mount EFCO
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 dual air filter set (can style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, and round gauge on stand
• 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 the model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

DCC Ready Features:

• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector