Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter SD45 Santa Fe

Description

Railroad Short Name: ATSF

Locomotive Features:

Era: 1970s, Series ATSF 5530-5589 (Ex-1830-1889), built 10-12/66, Phase Ib1

Road numbers 5536 and 5588

• Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on dust bin
• Lettering and data placement variations

Road numbers 5549, 5571 and 5579

• Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R “Low Profile” (#25 and #31 chimes swapped); mounted center rear of number board housing
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on dust bin
• Lettering and data placement variations

Road number 5563

• Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
• Can type antenna mounted on dust bin
• Lettering and data placement variations

All Santa Fe SD45s include:

• Operating LED-lit Prime PM-8901 Stratolite Beacon
• Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
• Operating LED-lit ground lights
• Front and rear MU hose retainer grab irons
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Pivoting front and rear drop steps
• “Short” stepwells with see-through steps
• “Early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
• Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
• 81” low short hood with plated-over handbrake location
• Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
• Early straight grabs and “flipped” nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
• Small mirror mount fore of the cab side windows, both sides
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• No cab vents
• Standard electrical cabinet seam and bolted alternator door
• No ECAFB
• Early (smooth) blower duct housing
• Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes with retrofitted cooling vents and “T” vent on top of roof
• Chickenwire-pattern radiator intake grille mesh
• Photoetched spiral ring grilles with center disk
• Long walkway duct (three short stanchions)
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and four inner and two outer brackets
• Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Early (angled) deck-mounted MU receptacle
• Short “nub-bottom” pilot face
• Tall jacking pads with holes
• Sill-mount EFCO button
• Frame-mounted bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauges, and round fuel gauge on both tank sides
• Detailed Flexicoil (low-mount brake cylinder) trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder second axle, left side
• ACI plate mounted to blower duct on left side and rear cab step kickplate on right side

Rivet Counter SD45 Locomotives Also Feature:

• Fully assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Printed and LED-lighted number boards
• Operating LED-lit ground lights
• Scale sectioned walkway treadplate
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Accurate hood door and long hood details
• Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Separately applied dust bin and exhaust stack
• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid
• 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, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” 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
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Color matched to Tru-Color Paint colors whenever possible
• 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