Atlas O 30138349 Reading & Northern (40th Anniversary) GP38-2- Premier

Description

Atlas O 30138349 Reading & Northern (40th Anniversary) GP38-2- Premier Produced from 1972 to 1986, the GP38-2 helped inaugurate Electro-Motive’s “Dash-2” series of locomotives and became one of EMD’s all-time best sellers. With over 2200 engines sold throughout North America, rare was the railroad that did not roster these reliable, second-generation EMD workhorses.
Building on the success of the GP38 introduced in 1966, the Dash-2 model looked almost identical on the outside but incorporated a host of internal upgrades that lowered exhaust emissions and improved reliability, ease of maintenance, and tractive effort. Most significant was the replacement of the maze of hard-wired circuits, switches, interlocks, and relays — which had characterizedfirst-generation diesels and had been the source of many of their service issues — with modular, solid-state electronics. Other improvements toughened the pistons, rings, and bearings of the 2000-horsepower, non-turbocharged model 645 prime mover.
The result was an engine so hard working and dependable that it became as common on American railroads as the F-unit was in the 1950s and ‘60s. Trains magazine recognized this in 1982 by designating B&O GP38 (a pre-Dash-2 model) as the All American Diesel; the engine resides today in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, repainted in its 1982 Chessie System colors. Many GP38-2s have soldiered on for more than three decades and remain in service today on short lines and regional railroads.
Features:
* Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
* Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
* Metal Chassis
* Metal Handrails and Horn
* Moveable Roof Fans
* Metal Body Side Grilles
* Detachable Snow Plow
* Handpainted Engineer Cab Figures
* Authentic Paint Scheme
* Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
* Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
* O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
* Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
* Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlights
* Lighted LED Cab Interior Light
* Illuminated LED Number Boards
* Lighted LED Marker Lights
* (2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors
* Operating ProtoSmoke Diesel Exhaust
* Playable Horn Sounds
* Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
* Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
* Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable
* 1:48 Scale Proportions
* Proto-Sound 3.0 w/ The Digital Command System featuring Freight Yard Proto-Effects
* Unit Measures: 15 1/2” x 2 3/4” x 4”
* Operates On O-31 Curves