ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41960 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIc Rio Grande/Large Billboard Lettering DRGW #3088

ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41960 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIc Rio Grande/Large Billboard Lettering DRGW #3088

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model
• Era: 1970s-era 
• Series 3086 to 3093, built Nov/1971
• D&RGW 3087, 3088, 3089, 3090, and 3093:
  • EMD square-corner “Burnham” number boards
• D&RGW 3092:
  • Original EMD number boards
• Fully-assembled 
• Multiple road numbers 
• Directional LED headlights
• LED-illuminated Mars SBW-2-301 dual signal light (clear lenses) mounted in low short hood*
• Class lights (non-operating) 
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• Front EMD low plow with MU hose doors
• 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
• Body-mounted knuckle couplers – Micro-Trains® compatible, molded in a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
• Square-corner pilot face with angled lifting slots, front and rear
• “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
• “Tall” stepwells with “zig-zag” pilots, front and rear
• End handrails with deck-mounted stanchions, front and rear
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Straight (late) drop steps, front and rear
• Late treadplate
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
• Late drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers and tab-style (early) hinges
• Early cab sub-base doors with non-terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
• Dual right rear cab steps
• Late cab step guards (short taper)
• Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
• “35-Line” cab with standard armrests, and flag holder bracket on right side (D&RGW)
• Detailed cab interior 
• Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
• Standard EMD sunshades with long mounting tracks
• Lost-wax cast brass Nathan AirChime M3 (M3R1) horn mounted on number board housing
• Excalibur low-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
• Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high on fireman’s side)
• Small ECAFB
• Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
• Late long handrail stanchion spacing with all “tall” stanchions overall
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails 
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Late standard-range dynamic brake housing (long tapers), with rectangular vent
• See-through 48” standard-height dynamic brake fan housing with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill 
• Rectangular-mesh radiator intake screening
• See-through standard-height 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
• Curved radiator fan grab iron
• Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight and standard housing
• Early rear sander door catch placement (inboard)
• Underbody frame rails with separately-applied plumbing and traction motor cable bundle details
• Detailed Blomberg-B truck frames (LFM-cast) with Hyatt bearing housings, separately-applied brake cylinders in released (piston retracted) position, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
• Separately-applied flexible sanding lines at both ends of trucks
• Early EMD speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to right #1 axle
• “McCarty” type re-rail frogs
• ACI labels mounted to blower duct on left side, and rear cab step kickplate on right side
• Standard 4 jacking pads
• Frame-mounted bell
• Salem-brand #824-170 and #818-170 primary and secondary centrifugal air filters, respectively (accordion-style)
• Separately-applied brake vent regulator valve and plumbing detail on underbody
• 3600-gallon fuel tank with late mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on both sides, and early rear drain bar
• Separately-applied wireform grab irons, etched windshield wipers, trainline hoses, sand hatch covers, and more
• Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Directional LED-illuminated headlights
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 55 and 80 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 9 3/4”
• Recommended Radius: 11”
  

DCC & sound-equipped locomotives also feature:

• ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” functions**
• One (1) cube-type speakers
• Turbocharged EMD 16-645 prime mover sounds
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts**

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operates on DC layouts**
• DCC-ready with E24 connector

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

**Lombard Hobbies Recommendation - As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of 'Dual-Mode' capability. This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors.

Prototype History

Improving upon its predecessor, the GP35, the GP40 would go on to be one of EMDs best-sellers of the “1966-series”, with over 1,200 examples sold to railroads in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1966 to 1971. Many examples are still in service today working in local service on Class I Railroads, or on shortline and regional rosters.

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