ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41952 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase Ia Chicago & NorthWestern/OY Scheme/Employee Owned CNW #5506

ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41952 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase Ia Chicago & NorthWestern/OY Scheme/Employee Owned CNW #5506

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model 
• Era: 1980s – 1990s 
• Series C&NW 5500-5537; ex-NYC 3010-3049, built Nov/Dec 1965
• “OY” Scheme, “Employee Owned” logo
• C&NW 5505
  • Front EMD low plow with MU hose doors
  • Yellow walkway duct 
  • Yellow air reservoirs
• C&NW 5506
  • Front EMD medium plow without MU hose doors
  • Green walkway duct 
  • Green air reservoirs
• C&NW 5525
  • Front EMD medium plow without MU hose doors
  • Green walkway duct 
  • Green air reservoirs
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Directional LED headlights
• Class lights (non-operating) 
• Tomar 804-1274 Strobe (non-operating)
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• 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 with straight rod extensions
• Notched-corner pilot face with square access plate, front and rear
• “Early” angled deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacles, dual per end, front and rear 
• “Short” stepwells with nub-bottom pilots, front and rear
• White corner step edges and kickplates
• End handrails with deck and pilot face-mounted stanchions, front and rear
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Tapered (early) drop steps, front and rear
• Scale sectioned Early treadplate detail on walkways, battery box top surfaces, and drop steps
• 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake
• Early straight grabs and “flipped” 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 without reinforcement ribs, both sides
• Single right rear cab step
• Early cab step guards (long taper)
• No hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
• Standard EMD high headlight with glare visors in numberboard housing
• Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrests, both sides
• Detailed cab interior 
• “Salem” combination mirror & windshield wing mounted ahead of the cab side windows, both sides
• No sunshades or sunshade tracks
• Excalibur low-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
• Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted generator compartment door, and early inertial drain hole placement (wide spacing on engineer’s side, low on fireman’s side)
• Small ECAFB
• Early (smooth) blower duct housing
• Early long handrail stanchion spacing with “short” stanchions at thin section of sidesill
• Early inertial air intake grilles without drip rails 
• Standard turbo exhaust stack
• Early extended-range dynamic brake housing (short tapers), with retrofitted long contactor door
• See-through 48” standard-height dynamic brake fan housing with 10-blade fan and hub assembly, with concentric-ring grill 
• Diamond-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
• “Aeroquip” brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to right #2 axle
• ATC Pickup shoe on #1 axle, right side
• Standard 4 jacking pads
• Nose-mounted Western Cullen-Hayes “Gong” 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 early mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on right side, 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
• Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color:
• TCP-109 C&NW Green
• TCP-353 C&NW Early Yellow 
• 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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