ScaleTrains HO EMD GP39E
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: Direct-current model with 21-pin connector, $204.99; with ESU LokSound V5 sound decoder, two cube-type speakers, and an ESU-designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors, $314.99.
Manufacturer: ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Road NE Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; scaletrains.com
ScaleTrains HO EMD GP39E features features:
- 81” EMD Spartan-type replacement short hood with ratchet handbrake
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank
- All-wheel drive and electrical pickup
- Blanked front and rear class lights
- Blomberg-B trucks with Hyatt bearing housings, elliptical springs, end transom detail, separate sanding lines and brackets, and separate swing hanger detail
- Deck-mounted Quantum Q2000 crossing strobes
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and AAR control stand
- Factory-applied wire grab irons
- Five-pole skew-wound armature motor with dual flywheels
- Freestanding air tanks
- Frame mounted steel bell
- Light-emitting-diode ground lights, number boxes, walkway lights
- Minimum radius, 18”; recommended radius, 22”
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna
- Operates on codes 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Photo-etched metal lift rings
- Salem air filter
- Small mirrors on both sides of cab windows
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Three-hose m.u. Clusters with silver glad hands
- Type E semi-scale couplers
Release date: Available now
Road names: Burlington Northern (GP39E); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (GP30u); Chessie System with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks (Phase Id GP30 and GP30M); Chicago Great Western (Phase IIb GP30, as delivered); CSX (Chessie System patchout, GP30M); Penn Central (Phases Id and Ie GP30); and Union Pacific (Phase Ib2 GP30).
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