| EMD GP38-2
PROTO 2000 Diesel
GP38-2 With 88" Low Nose | Features: |
- Powerful
Motor with Skew Wound Armature and Dual Flywheels
- Split
Frame Mechanism
- 8-Wheel
Drive & 8-Wheel Pick-Up
- Accumate
Operating Couplers
- Directional
LED Headlight
- Split
Frame Mechanism
- Includes
Rapido couplers
- Includes
snow plows and winterization hatches where appropriate (to be user installed).
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| Performance:
| | When
we first put one of these on the track we were amazed. This is an extremely smooth
running and quiet engine. You literally cannot hear the motor, you only hear the
wheels contacting the track. I put a recent Atlas release on the track along with
the GP38-2. The Atlas engine had the Slow Speed motor. Both the Life-Like and
Atlas engine ran at very comprable speeds and would easily MU together. While
the Atlas engine is a smooth runner and would never be classified as noisy, it
was all I could hear. The Life-Like engine was silently following the Atlas engine
around as if it was being towed. This engine runs as well or better than their
excellent GP60 release. | | DCC-Friendly: |
| This engine
has been advertised by Walthers/Life-Like as DCC-Friendly, but what does that
mean? In the stock configuration from the factory, the motor wipers touch the
frame halves rather than the light board. The PC Board only appears to handle
power to the headlights, it has no contact with the motor. So this means that
a standard drop-in decoder will not work with the factory configuration. There
appears to be room under the shell for a small decoder such as the TCS-M1. Wiring
in such a decoder should be straight forward as all of the necessary contact points
are easy to reach. | 
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