ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41976 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIa2 Louisville & Nashville/Early Yellow Nose L&N #3021

ScaleTrains Rivet Counter N SXT41976 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIa2 Louisville & Nashville/Early Yellow Nose L&N #3021

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model 
• Era: 1960s-1970s 
• Series 3010 to 3029, built Sep/Oct 1967
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers 
• Directional LED headlights
• LED-illuminated Pyle-National (Translite) #20585 “Gyralite” dual signal light mounted in number board housing*
• Class lights (non-operating) 
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• “Late” MU hose catch box, front and rear
• 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, 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 and pilot face-mounted stanchions, front and rear
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• Tapered (early) drop steps, front and rear
• Late treadplate
• 81” low short hood without 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 terminating reinforcement ribs, both sides
• Dual right rear cab steps
• Early cab step guards (long taper)
• Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrests, both sides
• Detailed cab interior 
• No mirrors
• No sunshades or sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
• Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” 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 standard-range dynamic brake housing (short tapers)
• 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 stepwell ends of trucks
• GE-brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #1 axle
• 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
• 2600-gallon fuel tank with early mounting brackets, tall sight glasses on front of tank, 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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