Scale Trains N Rivet Counter SD40T-2 Southern Pacific “1980s Era, 88″ Nose” w/ DCC & Sound

Description

Railroad Short Name: SP

Features:

• Road numbers 8504, 8529 and 8552
  • Era: Mid 1980s + with “home port” stencils below cab
  • Series 8499 to 8573: built Nov 1978 – Mar 1979
  • Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
  • 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
  • Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
  • “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin
  • Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
  • Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
  • Frame-mounted bell
• Unnumbered
  • Era: Mid 1980s + with “home port” stencils below cab
  • Series 8499 to 8573: built Nov 1978 – Mar 1979
  • Front late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
  • 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake
  • Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
  • “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin
  • Accurately-profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
  • Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
  • Frame-mounted bell
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• 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 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
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• SP nose headlight package
• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window
• 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
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer 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, early 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
• Single Graham-White (Prime) brand 975-075 (can style)
• 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
• 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”

Sound Features:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
• One (1) cube-type speaker
• EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts