Scaletrains Rivet Counter Ho Scale EMD SD40T-2 Southern Pacific/Lobotomized/Distressed Roman Lettering #8318 DCC & Sound

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SXT39851 Cab #8318

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Series SP 8307 to 8321; built 2-4/78
• Road number 8318
  • Era: Late 80s to Early 90s 
  • Plated over front and blanked rear red Pyle-National 17540 “UDE” Gyralites
  • LED-illuminated Prime PM-8911 Stratolite beacon*
  • Front and rear late SP/UP-style pilot plow with MU hose doors and grab irons
  • 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
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• No truck ground lights (prototype not equipped)
• LED-illuminated-Illuminated round walkway lights mounted between front sanding valve doors; rectangular walkway lights mounted between rear sanding valve doors and round walkway light, aft of raised walkway duct*
• Blanked class lights with bolted plates front and rear
• Printed number boards with separately controlled backlit LED-illumination*
• Direction LED headlights
• Front and rear 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Front "tall" stepwells with see-through steps and rear “ladder” steps
• 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
• SP nose headlight package 
• Dash-2 cab with bolted side window panels, SP/SSW blue flag bracket, and modified “L” front window
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Cab front door with additional door lock at top of door 
• Sliding cab side windows
• Mirrors / All-weather window
• Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
• Rectangular vent on left cab side, towards rear of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
• Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
• “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)
• 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
• Angled rear uncoupling lever with four mounting brackets
• Handrail set with anticlimber front and rear end railing with outward facing mounting brackets, “breakaway” inner stanchions 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 high mounted angled lifting slots
• Pilot-face mounted MU receptacle
• Front narrow “blunt” front anticlimber 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 first axle, left side
• Forward facing handbrake chain mount for Flexicoil trucks
• Four-hole SP jacking pads
• Spare knuckle boxes mounted to truck sideframes
• Sill-mounted EFCO
• Cab-roof “tripod” mounted bell with air conduit
• 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 
• ACI labels attached to long hood sides
• 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”