Athearn Genesis HO Scale EMD SDP45 Diesel Locomotive Conrail/CR (Blue) #6681

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In the 1960s, railroads were looking to replace aging EMD E-units and Alco PAs for passenger service. EMD responded by adding a steam generator compartment to the long hood end of their SD45. This required a longer frame and resulted in the creation of the SDP45. Three railroads originally purchased SDP45s: Southern Pacific, Great Northern, and Erie Lackawanna. After EL merged into Conrail in 1976, the SDP45s were renumbered as CR 6667 through 6699 and operated for a time in patched EL paint. By the early 1980s, they were all painted into Conrail blue. Conrail mixed the SDP45s with other types of power and used them on a variety of trains. Conrail #6670 resides at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke in faded Conrail blue. It was extensively measured and photographed in the development process of our model.

SDP45 features:
• Safety tread on walkways
• Fine-scale handrails for scale appearance
• Factory applied wire grab irons
• Windshield wipers
• See through cab windows
• Detailed and painted cab interior
• Sliding side cab windows
• Metal lift rings
• Fully-assembled and ready-to-run
• DCC-ready features Quick Plug™ plug-and-play technology with both 8- and 9-pin connector
• Scaled from prototype resources including drawings, photographs, and more
• Accurately painted and printed paint schemes
• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Genesis driveline with 5-pole skew wound motor, precision machined flywheels, and multi-link drivetrain for trouble free operation
• All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth and quiet operation
• All-wheel electrical pickup provides reliable current flow
• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on Code 70, 75, 83, and 100 rail
• Incandescent bulbs for realistic appearance
• Bi-directional constant lighting so headlight brightness remains constant
• Heavy die-cast frame for greater traction and more pulling power
• Packaging securely holds for the model for safe storage
• Minimum radius: 18"
• Recommended radius: 22"

CR SDP45 features:
• Carbody with 20-645 hood door arrangement, rear numberboards, and class lights
• Low profile roof details: dust bin hatch, dynamic brake fans, exhaust stack, engine compartment "T" vent, and radiator fans
• Leslie SU-3L-R air horn mounted on low clearance bracket
• Cab signal box
• Front trainline hose with drop elbow and silver end
• 3-hose MU hose clusters with silver ends
• Late coupler cut levers with loops painted white
• Notched pilot faces
• Front drop step
• Front and rear deck-mounted MU stands
• 81" short hood with SDP notched brake wheel and class lights and gaskets
• Antiglare patch painted on top of nose
• Dual single louver battery box doors and sub-base doors with stiffener rib
• Standard "35-Line" cab with armrests and sunshade tracks
• Dual sealed beam cab headlight with anti-glare shields
• Windwings without mirrors fore & aft of cab side windows
• Large Sinclair "ice skate" antenna
• Early ECAFB
• Low profile standard range dynamic brake housing with retrofitted side vents
• Rectangular grid radiator intake grilles
• Pointed long hood end
• Rear anticlimber
• Rectangular builder’s plate
• 5,000 gallon fuel tank
• Salem air filter set with piping
• Rear trainline hose with silver end
• Frame mounted bell
• Flexicoil-C Trucks with high/low brake cylinders and Hyatt bearings
• Speed recorder
• Dual end sanding lines
• Dual control stands
• Front and rear MU hose catch tray with bottom reinforcing strip
• Era: 1976-1984

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