MTH HO 85-2033-1 - GP38-2 Diesel Engine "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie" #2057 w/ Proto-Sound 3.0 -Open Box-M2609

• Road Name: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
• Road Number: 2057
• Product Line: MTH HO
• Scale: HO Scale

Features:

• • Intricately Detailed ABS Body
  • Metal Chassis
  • Authentic Paint Scheme
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • RP25 Metal Wheels
  • (2) #158 Scale Kadee Whisker Couplers
  • Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
  • Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlight
  • Powerful 5-Pole Precision Flywheel Equipped Skew-Wound Balanced Motor
  • Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
  • Operates On Code 70, 83 and 100 Track
  • 1:87 Scale Proportions

     

    DCC Features:

    • Headlight
    • Bell
    • Whistle/Horn
    • Start Up/Shut Down
    • Rear Coupler
    • Front Coupler
    • Engine Sounds On/Off
    • Sound Volume
    • Ditch Lights Auto/On/Off
    • Forward Signal
    • Reverse Signal
    • Grade Crossing Signal
    • Cab Light On/Off
    • Extended Start Up
    • Extended Shut Down
    • Rev Up
    • Rev Down
    • Coupler Slack Sound
    • Coupler Close
    • One-Shot Doppler
    • Feature Reset
    • Idle Sequence 1
    • Idle Sequence 2
    • Idle Sequence 3
    • Brakes Auto/Off
    • Cab Chatter Auto/Off
    • Clickety-Clack Auto/Off
    • Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Freight Yard Proto-Effects
    • Unit Measures:8" x 1 3/8" x 2.5"
    • Operates On 18" Radius Curves

   

Overview:

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 characterized first-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 #3802 (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.

New for 2014, this accurately modeled GP38-2 joins our economically priced Ready2Rail lineup in eight prototypical paint schemes. While Ready2Rail locomotives have fewer added-on details than standard M.T.H. motive power, Proto-Sound 3.0 versions feature the same versatile electronics and prototypical sounds found in every Proto-Sound 3.0 engine. In command mode, you can operate this second-generation stalwart with any other DCC- or M.T.H. DCS-equipped models. With the DCS system, you can create a lashup with just a few keystrokes, combining one or more GP38-2s with other Proto-Sound 3.0 first-, second-, or third-generation diesels - and run them all from a single throttle just like the prototype.