Description
Railroad Short Name: YCDX
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 20 to 21, built 11-72
- Road number 21
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch baskets
- As-delivered pilot faces with no lifting slots
- Front and rear early small deck extension
- Handrail set with inward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- 81” low short hood with ratchet handbrake and angled chain guard and “inverted” louvers on the left side
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Dash 2 cab with bolted window panels (11 bolts) and standard armrests
- “Chicken-wire” radiator intake grilles
- Early “stand-off” ECAFB
- Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
- Dual tall exhaust stack
- Series 22, built 12-78
- Road number 22
- 3,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauge, round gauge in right tank side and angled breather pipe Notched pilot faces without lifting holes or slots
- Front and rear late small deck extension
- Handrail set with outward facing end rail mounting brackets and chain
- 88” low short hood with wheel handbrake and high right-hand side round vent
- Bolted battery box doors with wide louvers
- Late cab sub-base doors with lift-off hinges
- Dash 2 cab with bolted window panels (13 bolts) and standard armrests
- Corrugated radiator intake grilles
- Late welded ECAFB
- Short jacking pads (late)
- Dual flush exhaust stacks
- 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**
- Operating LED Prime PM-8901 Stratolite beacon*
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- Prime Inc. cab roof HVAC
- 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 mounting brackets
- Deck mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- “Tall” stepwells with see-through steps
- Standard front and rear drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail on walkways
- Rectangle walkway lights mounted between sandbox clean out doors (non-operating)
- Standard EMD headlight in short hood
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- >No cab vents
- Sliding cab side windows
- No mirrors
- Standard EMD sunshades and long sunshade tracks
- Lost wax brass cast Leslie RS-3L-R horn on clearance bracket 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
- Intermediate inertial air intake grills with top drip railDual tall exhaust stacks
- Accurately profiled extended-range dynamic brakes with batten strip
- See-through dynamic brake intakes with resistor grid detail
- Square PAF (Paper Air Filter) housing
- 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
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Speed recorder mounted to third axle left side
- Reward facing handbrake chain mount for HTC trucks
- Aft engineer’s side sidesill notch
- Tab-mount EFCO
- Frame-mounted steel bell
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 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”
Sound Features:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Non-Turbo EMD 16 Cylinder 645E3 prime mover
- ESU designed “PowerPak” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
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