Description
Pre-Order Due Date: May 26 2023
- There is a 5% non-refundable deposit for preorders, this amount will be deducted from the price of the product when it arrives.
- For any pre-order submitted after the due date, we will try our best to fulfill your order, but are at the mercy of the manufacturer and if they produce more than were preordered by their dealers.
- Pre-Orders will show a 0 shipping cost now, and shipping will be included on your invoice at time of product arrival.
- Following your reservation, you will receive an email invoice with the details of your order just for reference. When the products are available to ship, you will receive the same invoice again this time to make payment.
In 1966, EMD delivered what would be the first of five orders of SD40s to the C&O railroad. The most powerful units on the road at the time, they had a total weight of 394,000 pounds each and could exert 82,100 lbs. of continuous tractive effort at 11.1 mph. Units 7450-7469 (depicted here) were delivered in the “35 style” paint scheme, with yellow noses and small side initials.
PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
In 1966, EMD updated its locomotive catalog with entirely new models, all powered by the new 645 diesel engine. The SD40 had 3,000 hp from a tur- bocharged V16. 856 examples of this locomotive model were built for Amer- ican railroads, 330 were built for Canadian railroads, and 72 were built for Mexican railroads.
This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article “EMD SD40”; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Li- cense (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA.
SD40 LOCOMOTIVE FEATURES:
- LED lighting
- Photo-etched stainless steel windshield wipers
- Separately applied wire grab irons and air tanks
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Coupler cut levers
- Rubber MU hoses
- See through cab windows, dynamic brake and radiator fans
- Fine scale handrails molded in engineering plastic
- Exhaust stack
- Frame mounted bell (unless noted)
- Detailed 4000 gallon fuel tank (unless different capacity is noted)
- Flexicoil-C trucks with high or low brake cylinders (per prototype)
- McHenry® scale knuckle couplers - Kadee® compatible
- All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth & quiet operation
- All-wheel electrical pickup provides reliable current flow
- DCC-ready features Quick Plug™ plug-and-play technology with 21-pin NEM connector
- Improved 5-pole skew wound can motor with flywheels and multi-link drivetrain
- Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
- Highly-detailed, injection molded body
- Interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage
- Minimum radius: 18” — Recommended radius: 22”
SOUND-EQUIPPED MODELS ALSO FEATURE
- Onboard DCC decoder with SoundTraxx Econami sound
- Single cube speaker for optimal sound quality
- Sound units operate in both DC and DCC
- Engine, horn, and bell sounds work in DC
- Some functions are limited in DC
- All functions NMRA compatible in DCC mode
- Operating lighting functions with F5 and/or F6
- Excellent low-speed operation
- Program a multiple unit (MU) lashup with lead unit only horn, bell, and lights
- Many functions can be altered via Configuration Value (CV) changes
- CV chart included in the box
Details
Scale: |
HO Scale |
Road Name: |
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) |
Version: |
w/ DCC and Sound |
Road Number: |
7459 |
Locomotive Model: |
EMD SD40 |
