ScaleTrains Operator 11301 HO Scale EMD SD45 Santa Fe CEFX 3146 DCC Sound

The SD45 was the “Big Block Chevy” of EMD’s “1966 Line” of locomotives. In the early 1960s, railroads were requiring more and more horsepower from locomotives to meet the demanding schedules of growing high-priority and intermodal (TOFC) traffic. This equated to faster acceleration and the ability to maintain higher speeds.

FEATURES:

Era: early 2000s to present
Series 3113-3140, built 8/66 to 4-69
Fully assembled
Multiple road numbers
Directional LED headlights
Printed and LED lighted number boards
Front and rear full-width MU catch trays with footboards
Front and rear early small deck extension with dropsteps
Short stepwells with see-through steps
Scale sectioned “early” (“X”) pattern walkway treadplate
Front and rear early small deck extension
Pivoting front and rear drop steps
Rectangular walkway lights (non-operating)
Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
Cab sub-base doors with stiffener rib
81” low short hood with plated-over handbrake location
Standard EMD high headlight in face of short hood
“35-Line” cab with standard front windshields
Finely-detailed cab interior
Leslie RS-3L-R horn mounted on number board housing
Standard electrical cabinet seam
No ECAFB
Late (ribbed) blower duct housing
Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
Separately applied standard-height dust bin and exhaust stack
Early (short forward taper) extended-range dynamic brakes
See-through dynamic brake intake grilles
“Chickenwire radiator grilles with rectangular-pattern mesh screens
Finely-molded 48” spiral-grille dynamic and radiator fans
Long walkway duct with three short stanchions
Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
End handrails with top-and-end mount stanchions
Short “nub-bottom” pilot face
Accurately profiled underbody frame rail with separate bolster webs
Tall jacking pads with holes (early)
Sill-mount EFCO button
Frame-mounted steel bell – confirm
4,000-gallon fuel tank with single fuel filler, single vertical fuel gauge, and round dial fuel gauge per side
Detailed Flexicoil-C trucks with low-mounted brake cylinders and Hyatt bearing caps
Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
Balanced dual flywheels
All-wheel drive
All-wheel electrical pick-up
Directional LED headlights
Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
Packaging safely stores model
Detail kit available separately: wire grab irons, trainline hoses, MU hose clusters, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, and more (SXT81254)
Minimum radius: 18”
Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
Oval speaker
Accurate EMD 20-645E3 prime mover and auxiliary sounds
Operates on both DC and DCC layouts