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 (a pre-Dash-2 model) as the All Ameri- can 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.

Features:

• Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body

• Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank

• Metal Chassis

• Metal Handrails and Horn

• Moveable Roof Fans

• Metal Body Side Grilles

• Detachable Snow Plow

• Handpainted Engineer Cab Figures

• Authentic Paint Scheme

• Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears

• Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers

• O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads

• Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting

• Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlights

• Lighted LED Cab Interior Light

• Illuminated LED Number Boards

• Lighted LED Marker Lights

• (2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors

• Operating ProtoSmoke Diesel Exhaust

• • Playable Horn Sounds

• Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder

• Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments

• Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable

• 1:48 Scale Proportions

• Proto-Sound 3.0 w/ The Digital Command System featuring Freight Yard Proto-Effects

• Unit Measures: 15 1/2” x 2 3/4” x 4”

• Operates On O-31 Curves

Order Due Date: September 4, 2024

Anticipated Delivery Date: June 2025

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