Scale Trains rivet counter SD40-2 in MILW paint with ESU sound and keep alive!
Sorry if i didnt cover every aspect of this model, more videos of it running on the layout are to come!
Timeline of video
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Box/packaging 0:30
Start Up 0:48
Notch 8 test 1:27
Details & Features 1:57
-beacon 2:22
-class lights 2:45
-All Weather Window 3:35
Keep Alive! 4:05
Rear plow and couplers 5:04
Issue 6:10
Brake release & test run 6:57
Photos 8:21
Info below from scaletrains site:
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Milwaukee 172
Phase 1a1
Built in July 1973
From series MILW 171-181
Part of a group of units based from Bensenville, IL and assigned to joint service on the Southern Pacific in the early 1980s
Era represented: Late 1970s-1985
Operating Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon (late 1970s retrofit)
Operating flush mount tri-color class lights
Bell mounted on left side of hood, behind cab (late 1970s retrofit)
“Notched” pilot faces with round lifting lugs (late 1970s retrofit)
Uncoupling levers with “loop” handles (late 1970s retrofit)
Front EMD-style low pilot plow without MU hose doors
Rear EMD-style “weedcutter” low plow
No drop steps
“Solid” end handrails (solid rail, no safety chain)
81” low short hood with ratchet brake and angled chain guard
Sub-base doors with early hinges and bolted battery doors with small louvers
Cab with riveted side window panels and no sunshade tracks
All-weather window on engineer’s cab side
Leslie RS3-LR Horn
Stand-off ECAFB (early)
Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam
Early inertial air intake grilles
Standard-range dynamic brake housing with batten strip
“Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
See through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
4-hose MU hose clusters
“Tall” stepwells
Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
Forward engineer’s side sidesill notch
Flush EFCO
Highly detailed smaller 3,200 gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers plus spare knuckles and round inset gauge on right side
Angled fuel tank breather pipe
Detailed HT-C trucks with brake plumbing and traction motor and air duct
Early center axle snubber
DCC & sound version includes ESU 4.0 decoder with “Full Throttle”
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