Kato HO scale EMD SD38-2 diesel handles heavy transfer jobs

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Kato HO scale EMD SD38-2 diesel handles heavy transfer jobs

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I have purchased several of these units and they look and operate superbly! Nice quiet mechanisms, nice paint jobs, and excellent detail work. I really like the new cavity at the bottom of the fuel tank, for mounting your DCC sound decoder speakers. What a great idea! Really nice units!

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I picked up the UP version and I love it. I installed a Digitrax sound decoder and this engine not only looks and runs great, but it sounds great too!

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I bought the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range units. Very nice units, however the paint on the Missabe engines is a little too ‘maroon’ (not enough brown in it). I believe the Athearn Genesis units have the correct paint color and closer match the prototype. Mechanisms - excellent. Details - excellent. Paint - not so much.

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I have seven of these units and have installed the digitrax DDC sound decoders in all of them. I couldn’t be more pleased.
They run and sound great.