Description
Railroad Short Name: SP
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 2971 to 2976, built 4-5/73
- Road numbers 2971, 2973, 2974 and 2976
- Small data and label variations
- Operating LED front and rear tricolor flush-mounted with raised gasket class lights**
- Black cab armrest
- Raised slug electrical conduit cover on rear walkway deck with slug electrical bus connections on end
- Road number 2972
- Small data and label variations
- Blanked front and rear class lights with gasket
- Brown cab armrest
- Raised slug electrical conduit cover on rear walkway deck with slug electrical bus connections on end
- Road number 2975
- Small data and label variations
- Operating LED Prime PM-8911 Stratolite beacon*
- Blanked front and rear class lights with gasket
- Brown cab armrest
- Raised slug electrical conduit cover on rear walkway deck with slug electrical bus connections on end
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Operating LED ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Extended walkway duct (SP toolbox) on left side
- 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 with loop handles front and rear and four inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- 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 with angled chain guard, “inverted” louvers on the left side, and round vent on top
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- SP “split” cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib and early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in short hood
- Dash 2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) window panels, modified (“used-to-be”) SP L-window, large armrests, and “inverted” hot water heater louvers on right front
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Vent on rear cab door, cab front above engineer’s window, and large square vent on cab roof on fireman’s side
- 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
- “Whip” antenna mounted to center of 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 tall exhaust stacks
- Accurately profiled extended-range dynamic brakes without 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
- Tripod-mount bell with air line on cab roof
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers and dual vertical gauges 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
- 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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