Rapido Trains is proud to present the EMD GP39 locomotive in HO scale! Following the highly successful GP38 and GP40 models, the GP39 brings the same high-end, road-specific details with a powerful motor and those razor-sharp graphics you’re accustomed to from us.

The EMD GP39 locomotive was unique in that it featured a 12-cylinder, turbocharged 645E3 prime mover — 4 less than its GP38 cousin. The largest purchaser of the GP39 was the Chesapeake & Ohio, ordering 20 locomotives. Upon the Chessie and Seaboard merger, the GP39s continued in local and yard service for CSX Transportation. While some locomotives and slugs would wear a variety of patchout or early CSX Y schemes, most of the fleet was repainted into the YN2 scheme and eventually the current YN3 scheme.

• FIRST TIME IN PLASTIC — THE GP39 AND THE SWMT SLUG — ALL POWERED!
• VERSATILE LOCOMOTIVE OF THE 1970s INTO THE MID-2010s
• GP39 MOTHER+SLUG SETS AVAILABLE IN UNIQUE SCHEMES

The EMD GP39 Locomotive and SWMT Slug features:

• Road-specific details for each model
• Rapido’s innovative dead straight metal side handrails with plastic stanchions
• Incredible underframe detail including traction motor cables, air filters and a whopping amount of separately-applied parts
• Road-specific battery box doors
• Separate grab irons and handrails installed at the factory
• Operating headlights, rear lights, white class lights AND ditch lights and beacons (where appropriate).
• Highly detailed cab interior
• Correct fuel tank sizes per road number
• Multiple styles of stepwells.
• See-through, etched steps
• Powered SWMT Slug — A first in plastic!
• Separately applied wire grabs
• Cannon and Company licensed fans
• Multiple dynamic-brake hatches and air filters
• DC/Silent (21-pin DCC Ready) or DC/DCC/ESU LokSound
• MoPower capacitor system for uninterrupted DCC power

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