Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD40-2 Union Pacific “Fast Forty”

Description

Railroad Short Name: UP

UP Features

• • Era: As delivered, series 8077-8095, built 1979 Phase IId2
  • Road numbers 8077, 8080, 8094 and 8099
  • UP “Fast Forties” – prototype was modified with high speed gearing to lash-up with DDA-40X “Centennial” locomotives
  • Operating LED Saturn 6552 Strobe Light
  • Operating LED tricolor flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
  • Front and rear tall pilot plow with high trainline hose cut out, MU hose doors and grab irons
  • 88″ low short hood with wheel handbrake
  • Rectangular walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
  • Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
  • Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
  • Front and rear late small deck extension
  • Late “fixed” drop step
  • “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
  • Dash two cab with welded side window panels
  • Standard EMD sunshades and short sunshade tracks
  • Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
  • Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on right side of cab
  • Rear cab side vent on left side
  • Leslie RS-3-LR Horn mounted on number board housing

• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on number board housing
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
• Extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets; chain and break-away stanchions on both ends
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Deck mounted MU receptacle
• Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Flush-mount EFCO
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge and round gauge on stand
• 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
• Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front

Locomotive Features

• Directional LED headlights
• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with MU hose doors
• Large “blunt” front pilot anticlimber
• Late “fixed” rear drop step
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
• 88″ low short hood with wheel handbrake
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• BN-style latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and lift-off hinges
• Cab with bolted side window panels, sunshades, and long sunshade tracks
• Cab interior
• Leslie RS-3-L Horn mounted on the number board housing
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip and resistor grid detail
• Corrugated radiator intake grills
• See-through standard 48″ radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Notched pilot faces with lifting slots
• Underbody frame rail
• Tab-mount EFCO
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• 4,000 gallon fuel tank
• Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Semi-scale ScaleTrains.com Type E knuckle couplers
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Pre-drilled for grab irons, coupler cut levers, MU cables, etc. – available in a separate upgrade kit
• Minimum radius: 18″
• Recommended radius: 22″

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature

• Operate using a DC power pack
• DCC ready with 21-pin connector