Rapido 18560 HO Scale GE B36-7 SANTA FE #7497 DCC/ESU LokSound 'Kodachrome' NEW

Description: GREAT PRICE. RAPIDO 18560. HO SCALE. SANTA FE B36-7 #7497. DCC/ESU LokSound. NEW. Photos 12 - 17 are of Pre-Production Samples. USE ONLY ON DCC (DIGITAL) CONTROL SYSTEM!! OPERATING WITH A DC POWER SUPPLY WILL DAMAGE ENGINE AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED BY RAPIDO CUSTOMER SERVICE. Expand all photos for greater detail. NOTE - Model was not removed from packaging to preserve the eBay category of "brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item (including handmade items)". Kept in an Environmentally Controlled and Smoke-Free Environment. Fully Insured at no Additional Cost. Expertly packaged to protect contents. Shipped with Insured UPS Ground. I will combine shipping on all orders, so please take a look at my other listings! DOUBLE CLICK ON FIRST PICTURE FOR LARGER IMAGES. MANUFACTURER PROVIDED INFORMATION PROTOTYPE HISTORY The four-axle GE B36-7 was a high-horsepower speed racer built to appeal to railroads in the early 1980s looking to turbocharge their growing intermodal business. There were few drag freights or slow-moving manifests for these thoroughbreds in their early years. They could be found in multiples at the head of piggyback and autorack services and the new double-stack container trains. Most of the CSX fleet of B36-7s were still in service well into the 2000s, usually in yard or manifest freight service. This ex-Seaboard System example was recorded leading a train out of Boyle Yard in Birmingham, Alabama, with a B30-7 partner in October 2005. Replacing the “Universal Series” U36B in the GE catalogue, the first prototypes were built at Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1980 for the St Louis SouthWestern, otherwise known as the Cotton Belt. Initial orders were hampered by the recession of 1981-2; however, by the last year of production in 1985 some 222 locomotives had been constructed for US railroads with a further eight for export. We were surprised to find that this wasn’t that far off the total of GP50s ever built, yet we’ve seen three HO scale models of that so far! The design found customers in several of the larger Class 1s of the period: Santa Fe, Conrail, Seaboard System, Southern and Southern Pacific. With the mergers of the mid-1980s and the Conrail split of 1999 the bulk of the fleet ended up with CSX and Norfolk Southern. Circa 2000 the CSX roster was overflowing with B36-7s, with around 140 former Conrail and Seaboard units operating all over the eastern half of the US. The ex-Seaboard fleet was officially retired towards the end of 2009, but examples were still working into 2011. They even still have some on the property. The turbocharged 16-cylinder 7FDL prime mover rated at 3,600hp (later examples could create up to 3,750hp) and upgraded alternator and traction motors proved to be a reliable combination. However, with all that power on tap and with just eight wheels to lay it all down they gained a reputation for shaking the fillings out of teeth and marrow from bones. They were well liked by railfans though and were among the last of the Dash 7s in Class 1 service, outliving the six-axle variants by a number of years. The increased power also meant increased noise. As well as the larger silencer (introduced in 1979), GE attempted to mitigate this with a pair of sound baffles either side of the radiator section. These were installed on all the Cotton Belt, Santa Fe and Southern locomotives and the first 15 Conrail units. By 1983 GE had replaced the twin radiator fans with a single large fan to reduce noise – three additional grilles in the doors in the radiator section made this upgrade obvious – and only Southern retained the baffles beyond 1986, and even then only the lower of the two on each side. The four-axle GE B36-7 was a high-horsepower speed racer built to be the backbone of the intermodal power fleet. There were few drag freights or slow-moving manifests for these thoroughbreds in their early years. They could usually be found in multiples at the head of the hottest of hot piggyback and autorack services and the new double-stack container trains. By the mid-80s and early 90s, many of the original B36-7 owners began repainting or modifying their fleet. Southern Pacific removed the red emergency lights and the front and rear Gyra-lights, replacing them with a Stratolite beacon on a shop-built bracket over the headlight. Cosmetically, very little changed, except for two that received speed lettering paint in the mid 90s. Conrail began to repaint a handful of their B36-7s in the 90s with a white sill stripe and later the full ‘Quality” repaint. PRODUCT DETAILS FEATURES: 3D scanned from an ex-CSX B36-7 for 100% accurate shape and dimensions Incredible underframe detail including piping, a ridiculous Number of separately-applied parts and full cab interior Dead straight metal side handrails with plastic stanchions With or without class lights (as appropriate) Equipped with ditch lights - on front and/or rear - as appropriate ATSF locomotives have Stratolite beacons Three styles of operating, flashing ditch lights, front & rear (as appropriate) Working headlights in correct location, switchable number boads at both ends and cab interior headlight Metal Knuckle Couplers A crazy level of road-specific detail options, with different pilots, anticlimbers, plows, fuel tanks, air dryers, antennas, wind deflectors, headlight locations, air- conditioning units, different bodies, multiple nose and rear end styles, three versions of drop step and so on... Incredible underframe detail including piping and a ridiculous number of separately-applied parts Full cab interior, with correct orientation for standard locomotives Dead straight metal side handrails with plastic stanchions A crazy level of road-specific detail options, with different pilots, anticlimbers, plows, fuel tanks, air dryers, antennas, bell location, wind deflectors, headlight locations, air-conditioning units, beacons, different bodies, multiple nose and rear end styles, three versions of drop step, and so on. With or without class lights (as appropriate) ATSF locomotives have single or double baffles appropriate to era and road number Three styles of operating, flashing ditch lights, front and rear (as appropriate) Working headlights in correct location, switchable number boards at both ends and cab interior headlight DCC/Sound (ESU LokSound) Accurate sounds recorded from an actual Minnesota Commercial B36-7 under load Rapido’s proven 5-pole skew-wound motor with dual flywheels and silky-smooth drive Rapido Innovations: Rapido’s latest innovation is their combined plastic/metal wire handrails. Yes, wave goodbye to wobbly and translucent engineering plastic handrails that are difficult to bend back to shape and flake paint. We also went to town on the cab interior. We now provide illuminated cab interiors as standard on our new locomotives so there’s no point in holding back! You almost feel you could jump in this cab and start it up. Front and backhead detail is equally well rendered. Traction motor cabling, air piping, large air cylinders, small air dryers, framing with truck bolsters, fuel cut off switch, and general all round attention to detail.

Price: 285 USD

Location: Lenexa, Kansas

End Time: 2024-09-26T14:58:52.000Z

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