Scaletrains Ho Scale SD40T-2 Rio Grande DCC & Sound (Run 2)

SKU #'s

SXT32286 Cab #5386

SXT32288 Cab #5391

SXT32290 Cab #5395

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Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 1978 through mid-1980s

• Series 5389-5397, built 8/78

• Fully assembled

• Multiple road numbers

• Operating LED box-mounted Pyle-National 20585 Gyralite signal light in low short hood*

• Operating LED front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights**

• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive

• Printed and LED lighted number boards

• Directional LED headlights

• Specially designed low-profile drivetrain completely hides the rear gear tower and driveshaft

• Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail

• See-through etched-metal radiator intake screens

• Etched-metal radiator exhaust grilles with radiator shutters visible underneath

• “Straddle” type re-rail frogs painted yellow

• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with grab irons and without MU hose doors

• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands

• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets

• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle

• Notched pilot faces with high mounted angled lifting slots

• Front late small deck extension

• Early front drop step (pivoting)

• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps

• Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets, rear anticlimber, and chain

• Handrail ends and step faces painted white

• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways

• Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)

• 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake

• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers

• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges

• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels and D&RGW blue flag bracket

• Standard EMD headlight in numberboard housing

• Lost-wax brass Nathan M3R1 (“M-3”) three-chime horn, center rear of number board housing

• Original cab front door

• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand

• Sliding cab windows

• Standard mirror mounted fore of cab side windows, both sides

• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks

• Rear cab side vent on left side

• Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on cab roof

• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab

• Welded ECAFB (late)

• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail

• Accurate hood door and long hood molded details

• Extended-range dynamic brakes

• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housing

• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail

• Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets

• Hood door warning label stenciling and sidesill equipment trust plate

• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables

• Dimensionally accurate truck centers

• Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets (outboard only), and D-77 traction motor and air duct details

• Speed recorder third axle, right side

• Short jacking pads (late)

• Sill-mount EFCO

• Frame-mounted bell

• Salem air filter (accordion style)

• Air tanks with fluid drain pipes on sides of fuel tank

• 4,000 gallon fuel tank with dual fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in tank and vertical breather pipe

• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more

• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers

• 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

• Minimum radius: 18”

• Recommended radius: 22”