Kato N 176-4829 DCC Ready EMD SD40-2 Locomotive ‘Early Production’ Union Pacific UP #3218

Red Frame Stripe, Large Lettering

Model Features:

• DCC friendly mechanism**
• Equipped with body mounted KATO magnetic knuckle couplers.
• Directional Golden White LED headlights.
• Powerful five pole motor with all wheel electrical pickup and blackened wheels
• Drop in DCC compatible with the Train Control Systems K1D4**

**Lombard Hobbies Recommendation- As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of ‘Dual-Mode’ capability.This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors.

Prototype Information:

As a prototype, the 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, with Early units representing a pre-1990 appearance and Mid Production units depicting later runs of locomotives.