Non-dynamic brake SD40-2

oarb00 Dec 10, 2010

  1. oarb00

    oarb00 TrainBoard Member

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    Does anyone know who, if anyone, makes a kit to make a Kato SD40-2 into a non DB equipped unit? I need these for my CN/IC layout. This is my first layout since I was a teenager in 1984. I'm sure it would be an easy modification to do from scratch, but all of my modeling since that time has been in 1/48th aircraft and 1/35th armor. I really have no experience in kitbashing/modifying N-scale trains.
    Thanx:tb-confused:
     
    oarb00, Dec 10, 2010
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  2. bremner

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  3. Kevin M

    Kevin M TrainBoard Member

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    You might be able to chop the tops off of Atlas GP40-2's or some other locomotive. I would think with some simple styrene pieces you could make one your self. Didn't Kato do a non-dyno SD40-2?
    Kevin
     
    Kevin M, Dec 10, 2010
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  4. wcfn100

    wcfn100 TrainBoard Member

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    Kato made one run of early SD40-2's w/o dynamic brake. There's a couple on E-bay each month. Kato #4700 is the undecorated, #4701 and #4702 are CN and #4705 and #4706 are the UPs.

    Jason
     
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  5. oarb00

    oarb00 TrainBoard Member

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    Canadian National inherited some SD-38's with the aquisition of the EJ&E so maybe some options there. Does anyone know what area they primarily operate in?:tb-confused:
     
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  6. jpwisc

    jpwisc TrainBoard Member

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    They are all over the system. Some ex-DMIR and EJ&E units are in northern MN, some are in Homewood, IL.
     
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  7. chessie

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    I am sure Kato made some non-dynamic SD40-2's... and if so, I probably had a couple. I am thinking they were for UP (ex-MP) units. I had some CN units, but I am thinking they were SD40's, not SD40-2's. :confused:
     
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  8. ns737

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    sd 40-2

    kato made the non dynamic brake in the sd40 and the sd40-2 early version.
     
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  9. jsoflo

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    Kato made a UP non-DB model SD40-2 in UP (I re-decaled mine for PRSX):

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    my best,
    Jan
     
    jsoflo, Dec 11, 2010
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  10. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Very nice. Progress Rail has quite a few interesting units in their fleet, including tunnel motors.

    I caught an FEC unit working on a North Carolina short line a couple of weeks ago!
     
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  11. Ike the BN Freak

    Ike the BN Freak TrainBoard Member

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    Kato did just -2s, no SD40s. People have kitbashed SD40s into non-dynamic brake units.
     
    Ike the BN Freak, Dec 11, 2010
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  12. Heath

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    I.C. had a couple dynamic brake sd40-2's heres the ones I did.
     

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  13. Tim Mc

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    Unfortunately Kato only made a non-DB SD40-2. I wish they would consider a non-DB SD40 and rerun the early SD40-2. A few of us made non-DB SD40s by removing the fan & DB blister, which can be tedious especially around the hood door detail. MP 3057 below was made with he long hood from an Atlas GP40, but that required filing the frame as the Kato mechs are wider than Atlas frames:

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    A later production SD40-2 without DB can be made by shaving down the chicken wire grilles and adding some corrugated ones from an Atlas GP40-2 shell:

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