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Sep 22, 2015 - HO Scale
ORDER DEADLINE ALERT - MTH Ready-2-Rail HO Scale GP38-2 Locos
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Produced from 1972 to 1986, the GP38-2 helped inaugurate Electro-Motive's "Dash-2" series of locomotives and became one of EMD's all-time best sellers. With over 2200 engines sold throughout North America, rare was the railroad that did not roster these reliable, second-generation EMD workhorses.
Building on the success of the GP38 introduced in 1966, the Dash-2 model looked almost identical on the outside but incorporated a host of internal upgrades that lowered exhaust emissions and improved reliability, ease of maintenance, and tractive effort. Most significant was the replacement of the maze of hard-wired circuits, switches, interlocks, and relays - which had characterized first-generation diesels and had been the source of many of their service issues - with modular, solid-state electronics. Other improvements toughened the pistons, rings, and bearings of the 2000-horsepower, non-turbocharged model 645 prime mover.
The result was an engine so hard working and dependable that it became as common on American railroads as the F-unit was in the 1950s and '60s. Trains magazine recognized this in 1982 by designating B&O GP38 #3802 (a pre-Dash-2 model) as the All American Diesel; the engine resides today in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, repainted in its 1982 Chessie System colors. Many GP38-2s have soldiered on for more than three decades and remain in service today on short lines and regional railroads.
New for 2014, this accurately modeled GP38-2 joins our economically priced Ready2Rail lineup in eight prototypical paint schemes. While Ready2Rail locomotives have fewer added-on details than standard M.T.H. motive power their bright LED lighting; smooth performance from our powerful 12-volt, 5-pole flywheel equipped motor; and a built-in NMRA 8-pin plug for DCC decoders, our DCC-Ready models are more fun to operate than any other dcc-ready HO locomotives.
Features:
- Intricately Detailed ABS Body
- Metal Chassis
- Authentic Paint Scheme
- Metal Wheels and Axles
- RP25 Metal Wheels
- (2) #158 Scale Kadee Whisker Couplers
- Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
- Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlight
- Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel Equipped Skew-Wound Balanced Motor
- Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
- Operates On Code 70, 83 and 100 Track
- 1:87 Scale Proportions
Reservations Due By: September 24, 2015
Expected Release: December 2015
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