Scaletrains Rivet Counter Ho Scale EMD SD40T-2 Rio Grande/As Delivered/Billboard DCC Ready

SKU #'s

SXT39864 Cab #5358

SXT39866 Cab #5363

SXT39868 Cab #5365

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: late 1970s to mid 1980s 
• Rio Grande series 5356 to 5373, built 7-8:1975
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-illuminated-illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• LED-illuminated Mars SBW-2-301 signal light in low short hood*
• LED-illuminated front and rear stand-off tri-color class lights**
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*

• * Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

  ** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

• Directional LED headlights
• Yellow “Straddle” type re-rail frogs
• Front EMD-style low pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Front early small deck extension
• Early front drop step (pivoting)
• Front "tall" stepwells with see-through steps and rear “ladder” steps
• 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 numberboard housing
• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels and D&RGW blue flag bracket
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Original cab front door 
• Sliding cab side windows
• Standard Mirror mounted fore of cab side windows, both sides
• Rear cab side vent on right side
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax brass Nathan M3R1 (“M-3”) three-chime horn, center rear of 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
• Stand-off ECAFB (early)
• Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
• Extended-range dynamic brake
• Front straight uncoupling levers with loop handles and two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Straight rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
• Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets, rear anticlimber and chain
• Handrail ends and step faces painted white
• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
• Notched pilot faces with low mounted angled lifting slots
• Deck-mounted MU receptacle
• "Tall" stepwells with see-through steps
• Front early small deck extension rear full-width front pilot anticlimber
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• See-through standard 48” dynamic brake fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Detailed see-through radiator intake compartment with front and rear bulkheads, floor treadplate, and fan motor detail
• Etched-metal radiator exhaust grills with radiator shutters visible underneath
• Separate 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 (outboard only), and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Speed recorder third axle, right side
• Forward facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil trucks
• Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
• Sill-mounted EFCO
• Frame-mounted bell
• Graham-White (Salem) brand 824-170 and 818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters (accordion-style)
• Air tanks with fluid drain pipes on sides of fuel tank
• 4,000 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 
• ACI labels mounted on plates attached to handrail stanchions
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Recommended radius: 22”