Scaletrains Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD SD38-2, Elgin Joliet and Eastern/Bicentennial #668 DCC Ready

SKU #'s

SXT33127 Cab# 668

• Era: Late 1970s-Early 1980s

• Series 665 to 668, built 1/74

• Road numbers 668 

• Bicentennial Paint Scheme

• Operating LED Saturn 6552 Strobe Light*

• “Tall” notched stepwells with switcher-style see-through steps

• 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe

• Fully-assembled

• Multiple road numbers

• Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*

• Operating LED front and rear tricolor flush-mounted with raised gasket class lights**

• Printed and LED lighted number boards*

• Front and rear mounted EMD-style “weedcutter” low pilot plow

• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands

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

• Straight uncoupling levers without loop handles front and rear

• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots

• Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle

• Front and rear early small deck extension

• Handrail set with inward 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 straight chain guard

• Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers

• Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges

• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing

• Dash 2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) window panels and hot water heater louvers on right front

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

• No cab vents

• Sliding cab side windows

• No mirrors

• 2-panel all-weather windows mounted on both cab sides

• No sunshades or sunshade tracks

• Leslie RS-3L-R horn on bracket ahead of #1 radiator fan

• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab roof

• Accurate hood door and long hood detail

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

• Early “stand-off” ECAFB 

• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail

• Dual tall exhaust stacks

• Accurately profiled standard-range dynamic brakes with batten strip

• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail

• Square PAF (Paper Air Filter) housing

• “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, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details, triple clasp brake shoes, and third brake cylinder

• Dimensionally accurate truck centers

• Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front

• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks

• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)

• Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch

• Tab-mount EFCO

• Frame-mounted electronic bell

• Salem air filter (accordion style)

• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, 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 70, 83 and 100 rail

• Packaging safely stores model

• Minimum radius: 18”

• Recommended radius: 22”