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MTH - HO Scale - GP38-2 Diesel - DCC/Proto-Sound 3.0 - Southern Pacific (SP) #4848 - Gray/ Red/ Bloody Nose Scheme (SKU 507-8520521)

Available On: December 1, 2015

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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






$199.95 US
Country of Origin: China