Scale Trains N Rivet Counter SD40-2 Chicago Northwestern “Employee Owned Logo”

Description

Railroad Short Name: CNW

Features:

• Era: 1974 to Mid-1980s
• Series 6816 to 6865; built Feb
• Road numbers 6817, 6824 and 6833
  • Original Yellow – “Employee Owned” Logo
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Class lights (non-operating)
• Federal Signal 372 rotary beacon (non-operating)*
• Printed and LED-illuminated number boards*
• Equipped with ATS pickup shoes
• 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
• Body mounted knuckle couplers; Micro-Trains® compatible
• Coupler box accepts Micro-Trains 1015/1016 couplers without modification
• Angled uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear and four inner mounting brackets
• As-delivered pilot faces with reinforced lifting holes
• Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
• “Tall” stepwells
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
• Standard front and rear drop steps
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard
• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Front standard EMD LED-illuminated headlight in number board housing
• Dash two cab with bolted side window panels
• Detailed cab interior with floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Rear cab side vent on right side
• Tall mirror mounted fore of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof.
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Early “stand-off” ECAFB
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Accurately profiled extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
• “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets
• Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
• Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Spare knuckle holders on rear pilot face
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Sill-mount EFCO
• Nose-mounted “gong” bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
• 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
• Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-108 CNW Yellow and TCP-109 CNW Green
• Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
• Recommended radius: 11”

DC/DCC Ready Features:

• Operates on DC layouts
• DCC ready with E24 connector