HO SD70 w/DCC & Sound, IC #1037
Detailed Information
ROADNAME AND ROAD NUMBER SPECIFIC FEATURES:
NYS&W SD70M
- Early Dynamic Brake Grilles
- Nathan K5HR-24 horn
- Single grab iron on top of cab
- Right side nose door with window
- Small firecracker and small can-type antennas on cab
- Early 4-step walkway
- Non illuminated ground lights
- Early jacking pads
- Round top ditch lights front and rear
- Front ditch lights alternate when horn is blown on DCC/sound version
- SP-style tall snowplow
- MU receptacles w/ yellow MU cables front and rear
- Early 5000 gallon fuel tank
- Stem-mounted fuel gauge and early sight glass
- Era 1995+
Southern Pacific SD70M
- Early Dynamic Brake Grilles
- Nathan 3 chime horn
- Single grab iron on top of cab
- Right side nose door with window
- Small can-type antenna on cab
- 3-step walkway
- Spare knuckles and holders on rear pilot
- SP truck mounted spare knuckle box on rear truck
- Drop grab irons (MU hose holders) on rear pilot
- Low-tab mounted AEI Tags
- Battery charging receptacles front and rear
- Early jacking pads
- Front angle-top ditch lights
- SP-style tall snowplow
- MU receptacles w/ white MU cables front and rear
- SP 4900 gallon fuel tank w/ corner reinforcements
- Stem-mounted fuel gauge and early sight glass
- Era 1994+
Union Pacific SD70M
- All numbers:
- Illuminated round top ditch lights
- Late SD70M flared carbody with offset turbocharger doors (2-door)
- EMD low snowplow without door
- PTC Antenna Array
- Without nose door window
- Tall round sand fill
- Standard "M" cab
- High headlight with single roof grab iron
- Late desktop cab interior
- Small and large cab side mirror
- Short sunshades with track
- Nathan AirChime K3 air horn
- SD70/75M series battery box door
- Late dynamic brake grille intake
- 2-panel radiator intake grille
- Phase II 2-speed "Q" fans
- Late 4-step walkway
- Early jacking pads including AEI tag
- Truck light details (non-operating)
- HTCR-II steerable trucks
- Late speed recorder
- Late 5,000 gallon fuel tank
- L-shaped breather down pipe
- Late fuel tank breather down pipe
- Stem mounted dial type fuel gauge
- Prime air dryer
- Prime air filter set with pipe
- Large EFCO button
- Era 2002+
Santa Fe SD75M
- These were some of the last Santa Fe lettered engines built before the BNSF merger
- SD75M body with turbo "bulge"
- Early dynamic brake grills
- Nathan 3 chime horn
- Two grab irons on cab roof
- Tinted cab windows
- Right side nose door without window
- Short sunshade brackets
- Large and small Sinclair antennas
- SD75M 4-step walkway
- Spare knuckles and holders on rear pilot
- Drop grab irons (MU hose holders) on rear pilot
- Low-tab mounted AEI tags
- Early jacking pads
- Front round top ditch lights
- EMD low plow
- MU receptacles w/ yellow MU cables front and rear
- Late 5000 gallon fuel tank
- Stem-mounted fuel gauge and late sight glass
- Era 1995+
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- Check next Month for the Norfolk Southern repainted ex ATSF SD75Ms
Conrail SD70
- Early dynamic brake grills
- Integrated Cab Equipment (ICE) equipment bulge on low nose
- Nathan Airchime K5LAR24 horn
- EMD Spartan cab detailed with corresponding interior
- Toilet hatch
- Standard battery boxes
- Cab AC unit
- Cab mounted Sinclair antenna on bracket
- Long hood: Firecraker antenna on small bracket with Conrail locotrol antenna conduit and box
- Walkway-mounted spare knuckle basket
- Spartan cab 4-step walkway
- Non illuminated engineer’s side ground light
- Spare knuckles and holders on rear pilot
- Drop grab irons (MU hose holders) on rear pilot
- Sidesill-mounted AEI tags
- Early jacking pads
- Front / Rear flat-top ditch lights with angle kick plates
- Front ditch lights alternate when horn is blown on DCC/sound version
- EMD low plow
- Early anticlimbers
- Front / Rear MU receptacles with light brown cables
- Large EFCO button
- Early 5000 gallon fuel tank with stem-mounted fuel gauge and dual sight glasses
- Non illuminated LSL lights
- Era 1998+
IC SD70
- All Units:
- Early dynamic brake grills
- Integrated Cab Equipment (ICE) equipment bulge on low nose
- Nathan P5 horn
- EMD Spartan cab detailed with corresponding interior
- Toilet hatch
- IC late battery boxes
- Cab mounted Sinclair and small can antennas
- Walkway-mounted spare knuckle basket
- Spartan cab 4-step walkway
- Non illuminated engineer’s side ground light
- Spare knuckles and holders on rear pilot
- Drop grab irons (MU hose holders) on rear pilot
- Sidesill-mounted AEI tags
- Early jacking pads
- Front / Rear flat-top ditch lights with angle kick plates
- CSX/NS style tall plow
- Early anticlimbers
- Front / Rear MU receptacles with light brown cables
- Large EFCO button
- Early speed recorder
- Early 5000 gallon fuel tank with digital fuel gauge and single sight glass
- Era Late 1999+
- #1021, 1025:
- #1032:
- #1037:
MODEL FEATURES:
- Fully-assembled and ready-to-run
- Front / rear trainline and MU hoses with silver ends
- Coupler cut levers with loops per prototype
- Sunshades and sunshade tracks per prototype
- Roof details such as antennas, air conditioners, beacons, and conduits per prototype
- Operating ditch lights
- MU receptacles and cables per prototype
- Pilot face spare knuckles and brackets per prototype
- Early or late anticlimbers
- 3 or 4 step walkways
- AEI tags mounted on the frame or jacking pads per prototype
- Safety tread on the walkways
- Several types of fuel tanks, all featuring separate gauges, sight glasses, and breather piping
- Anti-glare panel painted on the nose
- Windshield wipers
- Tinted or clear cab windows per prototype
- Detailed and painted cab interior with control stand, display screens, detailed crew seats
- Standard or Freight-style brake wheel
- See-through radiator fans
- Lift rings
- Factory installed wire grab irons
- Fine-scale Celcon handrails for scale appearance
- Underframe mounted bell- regular or electronic
- Low mount stepwell lights (non-operating)
- Dual sanding lines
- Rear pilot drop grab iron (MU hose retainer) pre prototype
- DCC-ready features Quick Plug™ plug-and-play technology with both 8- and 9-pin connector
- McHenry lower-shelf scale knuckle spring couplers
- Scaled from prototype resources including drawings, field measurements, photographs, and more
- Accurately painted and printed paint schemes
- 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 55 and larger rail
- Incandescent bulbs for realistic appearance
- Bidirectional 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"
Sound equipped models also feature:
- Onboard DCC decoder with SoundTraxx Tsunami sound
- Sound units operate in both DC and DCC
- Full DCC functions available when operated in DCC mode
- Engine, horn, and bell sounds work in DC
- All functions NMRA compatible in DCC mode
- Excellent Slow speed control
- Operating lighting functions with F5 and/or F6 (Flashing ditch lights, beacon, etc)
- Program a multiple unit (MU) lashup with lead unit only horn, bell, and lights
- Many functions can be altered via Configuration Value (CV) changes
- CV chart included in the box
PROTOTYPE HISTORY:
Continuing upon the successful SD60-series, in 1992 EMD debuted the next step in locomotive evolution with the SD70. While outwardly similar at first glance to the SD60, the D.C.-drive SD70 featured several external design refinements from the predecessor model. Battery boxes were relocated to the left-hand side walkway immediately behind the cab, a large, boxy forward traction motor blower housing replaced the angular version used on SD60s, the raised walkway duct on the left hand walkway was eliminated, and an intake for the rear traction motor blower on the left hand side of the carbody, directly under the rear radiator intake grill, was added.
Internally, the SD70 boasted improvements as well; a 16-710GB prime mover, rated at 4,000hp, was coupled to a new alternator design, the AR20. New D70TR traction motors were standard, and controlling all of this power and locomotive function was EMD’s new EM2000 microprocessor, which boasted more memory, twice the processing speed, and improved locomotive self-diagnostic capabilities compared to the processor suite used in the SD60. Even more revolutionary was the inclusion of EMD’s patented "Radial" truck design, the HTC-R. This design, which made its debut under EMD Demo SD60 #3, replaced the venerable HT-C truck, and is unique in its ability to shift, or "steer", the wheelsets laterally through curves, resulting in greatly reduced wheelset and track wear, and coupled with the new D70TR traction motors and EM2000 microprocessor, greatly improved adhesion.
Continuing with previous practice, EMD built a set of Demonstrator SD70Ms, EMD 7000-7002, all equipped with the North American safety-cab (hence the "M" in their model designation), and decked out in an attractive gray, silver, and burgundy paint scheme. These units travelled all over North America, showing off the latest technology from EMD. Eastern giant Norfolk Southern liked what it saw, and was the first to order SD70s, but with a twist; instead of having them equipped with the increasingly popular (and soon to be standard) "M" cab, they opted for standard, or "Spartan" cabs on their initial orders. The first production SD70s, NS 2501-2506, built in 1993, were quickly followed by additional units; NS 2507-2531, also built in 1993, and NS 2532-2556, built in 1994. They could be found in a variety of assignments over the NS system, and even saw run-through service on connecting roads, such as Southern Pacific, making appearances on the West Coast.
Western giant Southern Pacific also liked what it saw in the EMD Demonstrator set, and purchased 25 SD70Ms in 1994, SP 9800-9824. Intended to bolster their fleet of rapidly aging six-axle locomotives, the new EMDs were a welcome sight to SP crews and were commonly found on the "I-5 Corridor" between Southern California and Oregon, typically running in pairs on manifest trains of forest products, as well as service on hot intermodal trains.
The year 1995 saw additional SD70 customers, including Canadian National, who purchased yet another variant of the SD70-series, the SD70I, with the "I" signifying the safety cab being equipped with isolating rubber gaskets for the crew compartment, reducing the transmission of engine vibration and noise to the cab. Western road Santa Fe, always hungry for high-horsepower locomotives to speed its hot intermodal trains, purchased yet another variant, the SD75M. The SD75M featured 4,300hp, and externally was almost identical to the SD70M, save for an equipment bulge on the right side of the long hood, underneath the inertial intake grill.
As the 1990s continued, so did SD70-series orders; some repeat, while new buyers, such as Illinois Central, stepped up to the plate with orders. While mergers and takeovers would alter the ownership picture even further...such as Santa Fe’s 51 units becoming part of BNSF in 1995, and SP’s 25 units going to Union Pacific in 1996 (with the success of these units likely influencing UP’s decision to eventually order over 1,000 SD70Ms)...an even bigger change was coming. As a result of more stringent Environmental Protection Agency exhaust emissions regulations taking effect, the SD70-series needed a redesign to help meet these new guidelines. To improve engine cooling and to reduce emissions, in 2000, EMD redesigned the radiator compartment on the SD70M, flaring the radiator intake panels outward, resulting in an appearance reminiscent of EMD’s classic SD45 from the 1960s. Union Pacific, as well as Norfolk Southern, purchased SD70Ms featuring the flared radiators. The year 2002 brought about yet another change to the SD70M design; around the same time EMD introduced its FIRE (Functionality Integrated Railroad Electronics) electronic control system, the "M" cab design was revised yet again, to a more angular, easier-to-fabricate design that has, to date, remained unique to the SD70M. NS and UP both purchased units featuring this revised cab, as well as the flared radiators, giving them a dramatically different appearance in comparison to earlier production SD70Ms. As of this writing, the SD70M has been superseded by the SD70M-2 in EMD’s domestic catalog. However, the sheer number of units built of various versions...SD70, SD70M, SD70I, SD75M, etc. ...as well as their success with their respective owners, ensures that this family of locomotives will be in service for many years to come.
With the success of this locomotive family and its evolution over the years, it is only fitting that Athearn Genesis offer an all-new model of this popular EMD locomotive. Featuring all-new tooling, we have set out to cover the many variants of the SD70-series as accurately as possible, from Norfolk Southern’s initial "Spartan Cab" units, all the way to the final FIRE-cab, flared-radiator versions built for NS and UP. While Athearn Genesis broke new ground and revolutionized the hobby in the late 90’s with the original release of the SD70-series, we’re doing it again in the new millennium with this all-new release.
Specifications
| DCC: |
Equipped |
| SOUND: |
Equipped |
| Minimum Age Recommendation: |
14 years |
