ScaleTrains HO EMD SD40-2
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: Direct-current model with 21-pin connector, $214.99; with ESU LokSound V5 sound decoder, two cube-type speakers, and ESU designed PowerPack with two super capacitors, $324.99
Manufacturer: ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Road NE Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; scaletrains.com
ScaleTrains HO EMD SD40-2 features:
- All-wheel drive and electrical pickup
- Factory-applied details, including sand hatch covers, train line hoses with silver glad hands, windshield wipers, and wire grab irons and lift rings
- Five-pole, skew-wound armature motor with dual flywheels
- Light-emitting-diode lighting
- Minimum radius, 18”; recommended radius, 22”
- Operates on code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Plastic handrails and stanchions
- Positionable cab side windows
- Printed number boards
- Prototype-specific details
Release date: Available now
Road names: Burlington Northern (white face, with [three road numbers] and without [two numbers] strobe lights; American Revolution Bicentennial scheme and SD40-2B with white pinstripe in one number each); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (nose headlights, with [four numbers] and without [two numbers] ditch lights); CSX (YN2, with and without ditch lights in three numbers each); Missouri-Kansas-Texas (as-delivered in five numbers, unique nose striping in one number); Norfolk Southern (patched Conrail in two numbers, patched Conrail “Quality” in one number, and Conrail repaint in three numbers [all with ditch lights]); and Union Pacific (SD40N rebuild with 88” nose in four numbers and 116” snoot nose in two numbers).
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