Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD40-3 CSX “Boxcar with Yellow Plow”

Description

Railroad Short Name: CSX

• Era: 2013 to present
• Series 4040-4049, rebuilt into SD40-3s in 2013
• Road number 4042
  • Rebuilt from CRR 8132
  • Unique data label and data label placement
  • “Post-’80” extended-range dynamic brake housing with exhaust silencer without batten strip
  • Yellow high visibility front snow plow and anti-climber
• Operating Front and rear deck mounted alternating LED ditch lights*
• NRE-built replacement low short hood, cab, and sub-base
• High front headlight
• CSX/NS-style late pilot plow without MU hose doors
• CSX designed anticlimbers
• Sill mounted tow chain
• Late “fixed” rear drop step
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Rectangle walkway lights (non-operating)
• Tall mirror mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Nathan AirChime K3LA Horn relocated to the long hood roof
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications), Small thin dome antenna and STI-CO PTC Dual Track Antenna System
• Late welded ECAFB
• Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Angled radiator fan grab iron
• Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and two inner and two outer brackets
• Handrail set with anticlimber front and outward-facing rear-end rail mounting brackets and chain
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Pilot face-mounted MU receptacle
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Dummy MU receptacle pilot face dummy MU receptacle
• Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Frame-mounted electronic bell
• Prime air filter (can style)
• Graham-White 994-500 air dryer
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, blanked round gauge in tank sides, electronic gauge and vertical breather pipe
• Detailed HT-C trucks with rotating Timken bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details

Locomotive Features

• • Fully assembled
  • Multiple road numbers
  • Printed and LED lighted number boards
  • Dimensionally accurate truck centers
  • Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
  • Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
  • Accurate hood door and long hood detail
  • Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
  • See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
  • Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
  • Sliding cab windows
  • Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
  • Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
  • Directional LED headlights
  • All-wheel drive
  • All-wheel electrical pick-up
  • Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
  • Dual flywheels
  • Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
  • Color-matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
  • Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
  • Packaging safely stores model
  • Minimum radius: 18”
  • Recommended radius: 22”

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

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