Description
Railroad Short Name: L&N
While not as prolific as other models in the catalog at the time, the SD38-2 served an important role for the roads that ordered them, and have had long careers, with many going on to new owners and paint schemes through sales and mergers. This new model from ScaleTrains is a logical addition to the product line, being an extension of the SD40-2 project, similar to how the prototype SD38-2 and SD40-2 were part of the same product line. Inside you’ll find the same smooth, proven mechanism as used in the SD40-2, and HT-C truck gearbox with “clasp” brake shoes, or standard brake shoes, per prototype. Square or angled paper air filter boxes are present, as are different dynamic brake and exhaust stack options. It also features all of the road-specific detailing you’ve come to expect on ScaleTrains models, down to the unique extended walkway ducts and raised rear walkway and slug electrical connections found on the SP units. These new units would be right at home on just about any layout, handling heavy switching and drag road duty, just like their 1:1 counterparts.
Features:
- Series 4500 to 4505, built 1/75
- Road numbers 4500, 4501, 4502, 4503 and 4504
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the engineer’s side
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Pyle-National #20585 Gyralite dual signal light mounted on number board housing*
- Operating LED front and rear tricolor flush-mounted with raised gasket class lights**
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Front and rear full width multiple unit (MU) hose catch tray
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Straight uncoupling levers without loop handles front and rear
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- L&N-style multiple unit (MU) stand-mounted gangway lights (non-operating)
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacle mounted to end handrail stanchions
- “Tall” stepwells with inset center step
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- Standard front and rear drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake, straight chain guard, and hot water heater louvers on left side
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in short hood
- Dash 2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) window panels and hot water heater louvers on right front
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall clear wind wings mounted fore and aft of cab side window on both sides of cab
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost wax brass cast Nathan P-3 (P24R1 configuration) horn on number board housing
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Early electrical cabinet “zig-zag” seam, further from rear of cab
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip rail
- Dual flush exhaust stacks
- Non-dynamic brake housing with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Square PAF (Paper Air Filter) housing
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- See-through standard 48” radiator fan housings with fan blades visible inside
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
- Detailed HT-C trucks with Hyatt bearing caps, early center axle snubbers, sanding lines and brackets, and D-77 traction motor and air duct details, triple clasp brake shoes, and third brake cylinder
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to first axle left front
- Rearward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides and vertical breather pipe
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP- 160 L&N Gray, TCP-161 L&N Yellow
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
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