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Not all SD38s were dynamic-brake equipped (Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's and Bessemer & Lake Erie's, for example). Many were used for hump yard service, where dynamic brakes wouldn't be needed anyway. To answer some of your other questions, North American road units with dynamics brakes weren't universal until the "third-generation" diesels were introduced beginning in the late 1980s. Some so-called "second-generation" SD38s may have been retrofitted, but I don't have any information immediately available to support that. Non-dynamic and dynamic locomotives can operate in the same consist. For dynamic brake operation, though, the lead unit must be equipped with dynamics to control other dynamic-equipped locomotives placed elsewhere in the consist.
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