ScaleTrains HO Scale: Museum Quality EMD SDL39 - DCC & Sound - Soo Line 'Bandit'

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• Era: 1985 to 1987
• Series 581-585; ex-Milwaukee 581-585, built March/April 1969
• Road number 582
  • Data label and placement variations
  • 81” low short hood with cab heater louvers
  • “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields and cab heater louvers
  • Replacement left side cab subbase door; right side door original latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on cab roof
  • Spare coupler knuckle holders mounted to the front of the fuel tank on both sides
• Road number 583
  • Data label and placement variations
  • 81” low short hood with blanked cab heater louvers
  • “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields and blanked cab heater louvers
  • Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
  • “Whip” radio antenna mounted on cab roof
• Road number 585
  • Data label and placement variations
  • 81” low short hood with blanked cab heater louvers
  • “35-Line” cab with standard front windshields and blanked cab heater louvers
  • Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
  • Motorola ASP-16 “Firecracker” communications antenna mounted on cab roof
• Operating LED-lit Prime PM-8901 Stratolite Beacon*
• Operating LED-lit tricolor (red, green, and white) flush-mounted class lights with raised gasket**
• Operating LED-lit cab interior and control stand lights*
• Operating LED-lit front, rear, and fireman’s side walkway lights*
• Operating LED-lit ground lights on both sides of locomotive
• Printed and LED-lighted number boards
• Standard jacking pads at bolsters and extra jacking pads next to steps; total four (4) jacking pads per side
• Winterization hatch over first radiator fan housing
• Front EMD-style low pilot snowplow with MU hose doors and grab irons; rear weed cutter plow
• Front and rear early small deck extension
• No drop steps
• Stepwells with see-through steps; front edges painted white
• Scale sectioned “late” pattern walkway treadplate
• Front and rear Multiple Unit (MU) stands
• Latched battery box doors with narrow louvers
• Latched cab sub-base doors with early hinges
• Drop grabs and standard nut-bolt-washer (NBW) mounting on nose front and top
• Standard EMD high headlight in numberboard housing
• Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
• Sliding cab windows
• All weather window on right cab side; short mirror mounted in front of window on left cab side
• No sunshades
• Standard EMD arm rests
• Lost-wax brass Leslie S-3L-R three-chime horn; mounted center rear of number board housing
• Ratchet brake with chain
• Small ECAFB
• Early (smooth) blower duct housing
• Inertial air intake grilles without drip rails
• Separately applied dust bin and exhaust stack
• Non-dynamic brake
• “Chickenwire” radiator grilles
• Standard-height fan housings with 9-blade radiator fans visible inside
• Photoetched concentric ring fan grilles
• Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
• Handrail set with pilot face mounted outer end rail stanchions and solid railing
• 4-hose MU hose clusters with silver gladhands
• Late deck-mounted MU receptacle
• Pilot face bracing detail behind stepwells
• Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing and traction motor cables
• Sill-mount EFCO button
• Steel bell mounted high behind the cab on the left side
• Air tanks with plumbing
• Salem air filter (accordion style)
• 1,200-gallon fuel tank with fuel fillers, dual vertical fuel gauges, and round fuel gauge on both tank sides
• Detailed light weight EMD C-C export trucks with Hyatt bearing caps and separate brake cylinders, brake lines and outboard sanding lines
• Speed recorder mounted on the second axle, left side
• Paint colors matched to Tru-Color Paint: TCP-111 Milwaukee Road Orange

Museum Quality SDL39 Locomotives Also Feature

• Fully assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Factory-applied wire grab irons, wire lift rings, windshield wipers, horns, coupler cut levers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, sand hatch covers, and much more
• Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type “E” knuckle couplers
• Directional LED headlights
• All-wheel drive
• All-wheel electrical pick-up
• Motor with 5-pole skew-wound armature
• Dual flywheels
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”

• DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
  • ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle” feature
  • Dual cube-type speakers
  • EMD 12-Cylinder 645E3 turbocharged prime mover sounds
  • Curve squeal and frog clank sounds*
  • ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
  • Operates on both DC and DCC layouts

• DC/DCC & sound ready locomotives also feature:
  • Operable using a DC power pack
  • DCC-ready with 21-pin connector

* These features only function with an ESU DCC decoder installed while operating in DCC

** During DC operation, class lights illuminate in white. Access to other colors and the ability to change colors requires an ESU DCC decoder while operating in DCC

***“PowerPack” feature only compatible with ESU decoders while operating on a DCC layout