A New Era Begins: ScaleTrains.com HO Scale SD45 

YES! A C&NW 900 series SD45! Thanks fellas, I'll be getting one of these. Much appreciated.

I remember ordering an SP SD45 in August of 2020, still have it to this day

Yes Southern Pacific SD45 finally gets props for being the new era

As an sp guy I am getting one! Also, would love to get you guys to do the SD 9s I personally would pick up at least 6, black widow/ bloody nose transition era

Who all is excited about the all-new HO Scale locomotive?

In future I’d like to see engines such as the SD38, F59PH/PHI, P42DC, & SD60/SD60M to name a few

I would like to see more Canadian road names done by ST. They look and sound great!

An impressive locomotive model, I am pleased to see a modern release of the emd sd45 in ho scale, I look forward to seeing / purchasing the SP and C&NW locomotive models, big fan of the sd45.

This is really great! The Athearn models have been great but to see some new better detailed versions is really refreshing. Great job fellas!

I just got my second ScaleTrains Rivet Counter locomotive a BNSF DASH 9-44CW (the other is a CSX C39-8). They are awesome in every aspect, build quality, details, smooth quiet motors, and as a huge bonus, LokSound 5 with PowerPack capacitors. ScaleTrains is now my favorite manufacturer. I have an SD45 on order.

Also, you guys should do the RP39/RP40-2C. It was a passenger variant of the GP40-2 rebuilt by MK exclusively for the Virginia railway express. The RP40s had an SD45 carbody on a gp40 frame and the RP39s were GP40s with some different features.

Very cool choice Shane. Always loved the SP SD45. About time an accurate well detailed model is made.

I would like to see a GP

Mike Hopkins mentioned for those who want trains from a certain era but can't say what they want. No problem for me in that regard. I am interested in late 1970's primarily D&RGW and grew up with SP and a big fan of the SD45 from those days in northern California. I can't wait for ST to offer Rio Grande SD45's but I'm in for the SP SD45 too. So far the only ST engines I have are the as delivered D&RGW SD40T-2's and I"m waiting for more versions. A GP30 would be lovely to! I got to meet Shane at the Chantilly show in Virginia a few months ago and it was a pleasure meeting him!

2nd run of these: D&RGW! Please and thank you. 😁

Wow! Y’all are reliving a ton of new stuff!

I'm a Northern Pacific fanatic and they had very specific SD45 spotting features so I can't wait till you tackle them!!! You guys hit the BULLSEYE!!!

What an amazing engine. I may not model that era still, but I am going out of my way to find some CNW’s

One thing I would like to see improved is making a much brighter amber strobe light if equipped. It’s not just Scale Train models but industry wide they are always so weak barely visible. Lighting in general has advanced so much yet the beacons are still stuck in the past. It’s just a important detail thing with me.

I like how when I ask if they would make a GP40-2, which only like 2 companies make a decent one, I get "Many companies have already done the GP40-2". Then they make the SD45, at least 4 companies made a decent SD45. Correction: 5 companies make decent SD45s, forgot about kato.

They said well what do you want? C&NW GP7/9 and SD7/9 but love this model and plan on picking up 1 or 2 of the C&NWs

Good call.

You both guys are excellent communicators. Very good products. There is a beautiful locomotive, of EMD, that I never seen it in any scale. The G-12 Please consider this model. Thanks

Yes I love your models Scale-trains I love the Seaboard one :D

SCL!!! Gotta get my order in! Thanks ST team,

OH MY!!!! I need a few undecorated....detail and paint me some MRS SD45s! NO MORE ATHEARN FOR ME! ScaleTrains from now on!

Very nice, love the lights. Give us N Scale guys some more love tanks 🤛

Awesome! I hope that you will make the NS heritage locomotives in the future, as well as ES44AC’s and SD70ACe’s in general.

Great to see SD45's coming out. When will a TRUE Northern Pacific SD45 be coming out. And also the transition period NP to BN SD45's will be coming out? Thank's

Definitely will be wanting D&RGW!

Not to diminish the greatness of the ol special duty 45 there, but as a response to Mike Hopkin as for what many or at least I would like to see from you guys is the tier 3 and tier 4 SD70ACe in rivit counter. Not many people are producing emd ACe's in the top of the line product lines. If you guys made that decision I'm quite certain you'd take over that field of model RR that athearn seems to have a monopoly on. Essentially newer model RR of the newer generations are leaning more towards the modern power. Mainly because that's what they're seeing on the rails. Yea you have the gevos and dash 9s, but the main companion and rival is the modern ACe or MAC. You guys haven't pecked into that realm yet and it would be simply awesome to see you do it.

Love it

Finally I can do my DDM45!

Great video guys. Hope to see more in the future.

Would you guys ever consider doing variations of the SD40M-2 (SD45 shell downgraded to SD40 specs)? Nice models!

Two thumbs up. I already pre-ordered 3 of the SP units. Please do the 7400/7500 series SD45R's eventually...those are a MUST as well. Athearn's model was okay but I know you guys would do it one better...

I hope it's something that's never been produced in HO. I know IHC & others did. Please add a detailed,reliable & decent running Alco C-415 to the future list. Painted & unpainted versions. They'll sell like hotcakes.

Looks great. How about some Great Northern in your next run. Number 400 Hustle Muscle would be great. If you are going to do more 1960s era I for one would love to see an SD40.

How beautiful I am very intetestd in rail Modeling and I am very interested these

Please make some canadian pacific sd40m-2 models with the sd45s

Would love to see some GP units, GP60’s, GP40’s, GP38-2’s, anything around there. I think you could really break the market if you made GP60’s.

I would love a rivet counter GP38-2. Canadian Pacific or the Canadian National GP38-2W. I will 100 % buy a few of those. Preferably the later ones with ditch lights.

Nice...I was hoping for a Geep though

Hope we can get these in N-Scale one day. CSX Transportation Please

Sweet!

.... nice video. Great locomotive details..but..Are available in NdeM or FERROMEX ?🤔🤔. ?. .. greetings guys. 👋👋

Greetings Scale trains. Is there a possibility, that you can produce the Amtrak Acela set, with Dcc/Sound? And can you produce a line of RS3 locomotives with sound? Thanks. I'm in the process of purchasing your Dash 9 Northfolk and Southern.

A New Era Begins is a hint that it is a steam locomotive...

DIB has hit a new high in the community.

BN GP-20, and Great Northern F 7 A+B+B+A set's PLEASE!!

I'm very curious. It may be a steamer, or a transition era diesel, since ScaleTrains has always done modern diesel power. And they have nothing 4 axle.

I would also like to see a GP. Many railroads still use them

Come on man what happen to the release of a 4 axel I CAN'T DO GREAT SWITCHING WITH A 6 AXEL! I LOVE MY GEVOS BUT I WOULD LIKE AN 4 AXEL!

Excelente trabalho, parabéns !!!

To answer your question “what would I like to see Scale Trains produce”? I’m waiting on the definitive steal and wood caboose I model the Union Pacific of the 50s As well as other rolling stock appropriate to the transition Era.

Супер! Молодцы!

One can only hope these make it to N scale!

Kool. But ima goin to wait for the Green BN 45 when they come out.

There is one goof on the Santa Fe SD45, the numbers are supposed to be in the 5300 and 5400 number series!

Very cool ScaleTrains! But are you also planning to make these in N scale? Many Santa Fe modelers would also like these, but the Operator Series of an ATSF SD45 that you showed off wore a paint scheme AFTER 1972. What about the 1960s when EMD introduced the SD45? I and many others model the Santa Fe in N scale during the 1960s, so we'd love to see you offer ATSF SD45s painted in the blue and yellow pinstripe (aka "Bookends") paint scheme typical for that pre-1972 era. I'm sure that many HO modelers would also like this. There's nothing very special about Santa Fe's post-1972 blue and yellow Warbonnet paint scheme. Unfortunately, there currently exists a glut of them by almost every model railroading manufacturer in both HO & N scales. Except occasionally by your competitors Atlas and Athearn, Santa Fe's pre-1972 paint scheme is very seldom offered in any high-quality N scale freight locomotive by any model train manufacturer. Many years ago, Intermountain produced an SD45-2 in the pre-1972 scheme, but the internal mechanisms were often disappointingly problematic and defective (probably from a lack of quality control). Except for a round-nose F unit and its NW2 switcher, Kato hasn't offered freight locomotives in more than a decade or perhaps two in Santa Fe's pre-1972 scheme. As you can see, the N scale marketplace lacks Santa Fe's pre-1972 paint scheme right now. ScaleTrains could really capitalize on this by filling the void to help meet customer demand. I would gladly buy such an N-scale Rivet Counter or two or three if ScaleTrains made these iconic Santa Fe SD45 locomotives in the pre-1972 scheme. Please don't overlook us N-scalers!!! When you first entered the model railroading industry almost 4 years ago, you wisely decided to offer your flagship locomotive, UPs "Big Blow" turbine, in both HO and N scales. You should do the same for your introduction of the SD45s. Lastly, may I suggest in the future that ScaleTrains looks into producing not only 1960s-era EMD Special Duty (SD) 6-axle diesel locomotives, but also EMD General Purpose (GP) 4-axle ones from the 1960s such as GP35s and GP40s in BOTH N & HO scales? These versatile GP locomotives would be extremely desirable for modelers running mainline, branchline and switching operations. -from Tom Pilling

Erie Lackawanna puh-leeze!!

We need a ex-Conrail NS one that’s patched

So does this mean that SD40M-2s might happen in the future?

Drayton looks like the guy from delay in block productions

When will the rest of the TrainFest announcements be made?

I wanted a steam engine...

Also could we please get CNW dash-9s in rivet counter? I’m a huge detail freak and it disappoints me that it’s only in operator!

When are the AC4400s coming? Ir are they being announced at the show? Ill find out tomorrow

I may be an SP modeler but these are too old school for me. Now if there was an SD45R version, then I'd be interested.

Imagine an E4 A-B-A or A-B-B-A 1950s Orange Blossom Special in Rivet Counter - I'd sell a couple of my old guitars for that consist!

when are the rest of the announcements coming out?

Please do SDL39s...for those of us that dont want to buy brass

But but but I'm already overflowing with SD 45's!!! However, A good rendition of SP7399 in both daylight & Kodachrome colors would be good!!!

Yo that’s delay in block production I knew it

Oh yes

We need WC SD45's

Edit your preorder date above please.

Still see sd45s today on Bp railroad

You didn't ask me what era to make--pre merger anything! Your web site doesn't indicate if you have Rivet-Counter DC/non-sound versions. I have one of your DC Gas turbines, and it speed-matches well with other manufacturers. In DC this is THE most important aspect of operation, since locos that run too fast (e.g., Rapido) or too slow (pre-Walthers P2Ks) won't MU with other brands. There ought to be an industry standard!

Will you have DRGW??

Will you be doing the norfolk and western high hood version and maybe the buffal and Pittsburgh

Whats the next Museum Quality model going to be?

Excuse me. I have a question. Do the Seaboard SD45's come with just 2024 or different numbers ?

Can you make the Rio grande sd45 in the next run

Southern Pacific

Are you going to Model the Southern Railway in the high hood thanks

Is this the delay in block guy on the right?

Please make SD70ACe-T4. Please! :c

2:25 Is that an SD70B on the left

I WANT TO YOU GUYS TO HAVE MADE A RIVET COUNTER MILWAUKEE ROAD SDL39!!! BUT I WILL BUY THE RC SP SD45!!!

3:13 Love that SP loco. Nice.

Its a dd40AX.... i bet

Where's DRGW??

Looks like I'll be building some Cannon hi-noses for my N&W units!! 😒

What's so new era about it?? Just another SD45, yes most likely the best one yet produced by far, but new era??

But are you going to do them in N scale? This is what I spend my money on.

Who else is going to Trainfest?

Hopefully the O scale side of the hobby gets some loving....

Another big power unit. What a let down.

Na Super wieder nichts in N scal