Scaletrains Ho Scale SD40T-2 Southern Pacific DCC & Sound (Run 2)

SKU #'s

SXT32530 Cab #8357

SXT32532 Cab #8360

SXT32534 Cab #8371

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Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 1978 through early 1980s

• Series 8357-8371, built 2/78 – 4/78

• Fully assembled

• Multiple road numbers

• SP nose headlight package

• Operating front and rear red LED Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites*

• Operating front and rear LED Pyle-National 20585 (Translite) “Gyralite” signal light*

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

• 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

• Front and rear late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons

• 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 pilot anticlimber

• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps

• Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions and chain

• Handrail ends painted white

• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways

• Round walkway lights (non-operating)

• 123” “snoot” low short hood with wheel handbrake and round vent on top

• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers

• SP “split” cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges

• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and “L” front window

• Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime P24R1 (“P-3”) three-chime horn on clearance bracket; offset to engineer’s side and mounted on number board housing

• Original cab front door

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

• Sliding cab windows

• Tall clear wind wings with angled top corners mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab

• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade track

• Rear cab side vent on left side

• Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC

• Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit

• “Whip” radio antenna mounted on ground plane over dust bin and dual Locotrol antenna ground planes on cab roof with conduits

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

• Welded ECAFB (late)

• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails

• ACI labels attached to long hood sides

• Accurate hood door and long hood molded details

• Extended-range dynamic brakes

• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings

• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail

• Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets

• 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, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details

• GE Speed recorder first axle, left side

• Four-hole SP jacking pads

• Sill-mount EFCO

• Single Prime air filter (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

• Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler

• 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

• 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”