ScaleTrains N Rivet Counter SD40T-2 Southern Pacific “Kodachrome, Post 1980”

Description

Railroad Short Name: SP

Features:

• Era: Mid/Late 1980s
• Series 8230 to 8299; built 1980
• Road number 8286
  • Dash-2 Cab with welded side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
  • “Post 1980” extended-range dynamic brakes with exhaust silencer
  • Late electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, closer to rear of cab
  • Double Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 (can style) air filter
• Fully-assembled
• Operating LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” in numberboard housing*
• Non-operating front and rear red LED Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites*
• Operating front and rear LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” signal light*
• Class lights (non-operating)
• Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
• Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
• Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
• Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
• Front pilot anticlimber
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
• Front “tall” stepwells and rear “ladder” steps
• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• SP nose headlight package
• Original cab front door
• Tall clear wind wings with angled top corners mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Rear cab side vent on left side
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn on clearance bracket; offset to engineer’s side and mounted on number board housing
• “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
• Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain
• Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots
• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• See-through standard 48” dynamic brake fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• See-through radiator intake compartment
• Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
• 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 first axle, left side
• Four-hole SP jacking pads
• Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
• Sill-mounted EFCO
• Frame-mounted bell
• Standard air tanks
• 4,400 gallon fuel tank with reinforced tank edges where sides meet the tank ends, dual fuel fillers, dual vertical gauges, round gauge on stand and vertical breather pipe
• ACI labels attached to long hood sides
• 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”

DC/DCC & Sound Ready Features:

• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with E24 connector