Scale Trains HO Scale: Rivet Counter - EMD SD40-2 - DCC & Sound - Union Pacific 'Fast Forty'

Union Pacific 'Fast Forty' Details

• Era: As delivered, series 8077-8095, built 1979 Phase IId2
• Road numbers 8077, 8080, 8094 and 8099
• UP “Fast Forties” – prototype was modified with high speed gearing to lash-up with DDA-40X “Centennial” locomotives
• Operating LED Saturn 6552 Strobe Light
• Operating LED tricolor flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket
• Front and rear tall pilot plow with high trainline hose cut out, MU hose doors and grab irons
• 88″ low short hood with wheel handbrake
• Rectangular walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
• Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
• Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
• Front and rear late small deck extension
• Late “fixed” drop step
• “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
• Dash two cab with welded side window panels
• Standard EMD sunshades and short sunshade tracks
• Standard EMD headlight in number board housing
• Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on right side of cab
• Rear cab side vent on left side
• Leslie RS-3-LR Horn mounted on number board housing
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on number board housing
• Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
• Welded ECAFB (late)
• Late inertial air intake grilles with top and bottom drip rail
• Extended-range dynamic brakes without batten strip
• Corrugated radiator intake grilles
• See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Straight uncoupling levers with loop handles front and rear; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets; chain and break-away stanchions on both ends
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Deck mounted MU receptacle
• Spare knuckle holders on fuel tank near fuel filler
• Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
• Short jacking pads (late)
• Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
• Flush-mount EFCO
• Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
• Frame-mounted steel bell
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge and round gauge on stand
• Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, late center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details
• Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front

• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Printed and LED lighted number boards
• Dimensionally accurate truck centers
• Scale sectioned treadplate detail on the walkways
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Accurate hood door and long hood detail
• Accurately profiled dynamic brake housings
• See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab windows
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, snowplows, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with ScaleTrains.com durable metal semi-scale E Type knuckle couplers
• Directional LED headlights
• 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”

DCC & Sound Equipped locomotives also feature:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
• Dual cube-type speakers
• EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*