HO scale EMD SD40-2 mid-production locomotive by Kato. Sound friendly and DCC ready for your decoder.

Features:

• DCC Ready with 8-Pin NMRA socket
• ""Sound Friendly"" design with speaker housing in the fuel tank
• All handrails and grab irons are factory installed, making the model ready to go out of the box
• Functional ditch lights that can be switched between alternating and steady modes on-the-fly in DC operation
• Ditch lights can be synchronized with horn or bell functions with the installation of an 8-pin sound decoder
• Directional headlights illuminated with Golden White LEDs
• Illuminated preprinted numberboards

The EMD SD40-2 was the most popular second-generation diesel with sales of over 3000 in the U.S. and more than 700 in Canada. There were many variations of this popular diesel because of the long production run. A large number of these locomotives are still in service today either with the original purchaser or with a second-hand operator. The BN amassed a fleet of 827 SD40-2's between 1972 and 1980. They started out hauling coal trains out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin and then started moving transcontinental freight between the West Coast and the Midwest.