ScaleTrains Rivet Counter HO SXT40212 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIb Penn Central PC #3105

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ScaleTrains Rivet Counter HO SXT40212 DCC Ready EMD GP40 Phase IIb

Penn Central PC #3105

Road Number-Specific ScaleTrains

• All-new model 
• Era: 1960s-1970s 
• Series PC 3105-3259, built 8-12/1968
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers 
• LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
• LED-Illuminated rectangular walkway lights mounted between front and rear sanding valve doors, and round walkway light aft of raised walkway duct*
• LED-illuminated tri-color, flush-mounted front and rear class lights with raised gaskets
• 2-strap cab signal cabinet on top of battery box, engineer’s side
• Printed number boards with separately-controlled, backlit LED-illumination*
• “Late” MU hose catch box with footboards, front and rear
• 4-hose multiple unit (MU) hose groups with mounting bracket and gladhand detail
• Semi-scale coupler buffers equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers without loop handles
• Square-corner pilot face, front and rear
• Full-width grab iron above uncoupling lever on front and rear pilot faces
• “Late” tall deck-mounted multiple-unit (MU) receptacles, front and rear
• “Short” 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
• Positionable tapered (early) 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 side; top and side grabs relocated to left side to clear cab signal cabinet
• 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)
• Hopper water piping underneath front battery box step
• ATC equipment cabinet, 2-strap, mounted to top of right-side battery box housing 
• Standard EMD low headlight in face of short hood
• “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields, and standard armrests, both sides
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, cab blowers, rear wall, early seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Positionable cab side windows
• Tall square-corner clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window, both sides of cab
• No sunshades or sunshade tracks
• Lost-wax cast brass Leslie S-3-LR horn mounted on number board housing
• Excalibur standard-profile “ice skate” communications antenna mounted to cab roof
• Long hood with standard electrical cabinet seam, bolted alternator door, and late inertial drain hole placement (close spacing on engineer’s side, high 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 
• Dynamic brake intakes with see-through intake vanes, and resistor grid detail inside of the housing
• Rectangular-mesh radiator intake screening
• See-through lower-profile 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fan and hub assembly
• Separately-applied radiator core detail mounted inside of long hood, visible under radiator fans
• 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 neoprene sanding lines at both ends of trucks
• Rust-color painted wheelsets
• GE-brand speed recorder with adapter flange mounted to left #2 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
• Fuel tanks
• 3600-gallon fuel tank with late mounting brackets, inset dial gauge on both sides, and early rear drain bar
• Separately-applied:
  • Fuel fillers, drains, and breather piping on fuel tanks
  • Engine oil sump drain fitting with hose
  • Radiator water drain fitting on underbody
  • Truck air line plumbing on underbody above each truck, both sides
  • Wireform grab irons, wireform lift rings, 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 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” functions
• Two (2) cube-type speakers
• Turbocharged EMD 16-645 prime mover sounds
• ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors****
• Operates on both DC and DCC layouts*****

DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:

• Operates on DC layouts*****
• DCC-ready with 21-pin connector

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

In DC operation, both front ditch lights illuminate; rear ditch lights (if equipped) do not illuminate

Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC

PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout*****

*****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.

Penn Central (PC) would wind up as the largest original GP40 owner, acquiring 170 units over multiple orders. Despite the eastern road’s struggles, consists of black GP40s could be found all over the system handling all kinds of freight, eventually trading their somber black paint for bright Conrail blue. 

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