Product Title: Scale Trains SXT33129 EMD SD38-2, Louisville & Nashville L&N Diesel Locomotive DCC SOUND 4500 HO SCALE
Manufacturer: Scale Trains
Scale: HO
Condition: Item Condition: C-9, Box Condition P-9
Operational Status: This item is assumed to be fully operational according to the manufacturer's specifications.
TCA Condition/Grading Standards: C-9: Factory New—Brand New: all original; unused; may evidence factory rubs and the slightest evidence of handling, shipping and having been test run at the factory.
TCA Box Grading Standards: P-9: Store New: Complete and all original and unused. May have merchant additions such as store stamps, price tags et al. Boxes must have inner liner/s, if appropriate.
Photos: See photos
Manufacturer Information:
- Era: Mid 1970s – Late 1970s
- Series 4500 to 4505, built 1/75
- Road numbers 4500, 4501, 4502, 4503 and 4504
- Side-mounted steel bell behind the dynamic brake on the engineer’s side
- 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**
- Printed and LED lighted number boards*
- 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 without loop handles front and rear
- Notched pilot faces with high angled lifting slots
- L&N-style multiple unit (MU) stand-mounted gangway lights (non-operating)
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacle mounted to end handrail stanchions
- “Tall” stepwells with inset center step
- 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, straight chain guard, and hot water heater louvers on left side
- Bolted battery box doors with narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Standard EMD headlight in short hood
- Dash 2 cab with 11-bolt (top and bottom) window panels and hot water heater louvers on right front
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- No cab vents
- 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
- Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” antenna mounted on the 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 flush exhaust stacks
- Non-dynamic brake housing with 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
- Salem air filter (accordion style)
- 4,000-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, vertical gauges, round gauges in tank sides 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
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP- 160 L&N Gray, TCP-161 L&N Yellow
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
- DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature
- 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
- DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature
- Operates on DC layouts
- DCC ready with 21-pin connector
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
***“PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout