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Rapido Trains Inc HO 42122 DCC Ready GE C36-7 Locomotive Norfolk Southern NS #8534
Stock: 1
Scale: HO
SKU: RAP42122
Rapido Trains Inc HO 42122 DCC Ready GE C36-7 Locomotive Norfolk Southern NS #8534
Norfolk Southern Specific Features:
Delivered in 1982
- Rockwell truck sideframes with high brake cylinders
- C36-7 late 7-grille hood
- Extended range dynamic brake “hump”
- Late rear with raised numberboards and low (blanked) class lights
- Large “silenced” exhaust with early (small) exhaust inside
- 2-window cab with flagholder
- N&W/NS-specific lower pilot step
- Smooth nose
- Firecracker antenna
- Open cutout NS plow
- Open cutout NS plow on rear
- Banked class lights
- Ditchlights front and rear
The Rapido HO Scale C36-7 Locomotive features:
- Headlights and rear lights
- Class lights, marker lights, or ditch lights, where applicable
- Step lights
- Lit numberboards
- Full traction motor casing details
- Metal brake chain on engineer’s side
- Detailed underbody piping and conduit
- Separate grab irons
- Rapido’s innovative dead straight metal side handrails with plastic stanchions
- Detailed cab interior
- Lighted control stand
- Heavy, die-cast weight for heavy hauling
- 5-pole skew-wound motor with dual flywheels
- Loco is:
-
DC/Silent (21-pin DCC Ready)**
-
DC/Silent (21-pin DCC Ready)**
**Lombard Hobbies Recommendation - As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of 'Dual-Mode' capability. This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors.
Prototype History:
The C36-7 was General Electric’s higher-horsepower six-axle Dash-7 offering, with a 16-cylinder 3,600 horsepower or 3,750 hp rating (compared to the C30-7's 3,000 hp.) Built between July 1979 and February 1989, over 599 total units were produced. Of those, 129 were domestic orders for Conrail, Missouri Pacific, Norfolk & Western, and Norfolk Southern.
Despite smaller production numbers, the C36-7 was ordered at key moments that resulted in it representing the evolution of GE’s Dash-7 line more than the popular C30-7's. When GE launched “1977 Series Locomotives” (Dash-7's) in, they cataloged a C30-7, C33-7, and C36-7. Railroads immediately ordered C30-7's for booming coal service. The C33-7 was never ordered. The C36-7 was ignored until 1979, when National de Mexico and Ferrocarril del Pacifico placed orders.
In March 1981, GE built the first domestic order of C36-7's – a small order of 6 for Norfolk and Western. N&W received 25 more C36-7's in the “Claytor” scheme a year later in 1982. All of the N&W units featured a slight late-production change in hood doors and seams behind the cab, shared with late production C30-7's. They were set up short hood forward, and their high horsepower was put to good use on N&W’s heavy trains.
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Rapido Trains Inc HO 42122 DCC Ready GE C36-7 Locomotive Norfolk Southern NS #8534
Norfolk Southern Specific Features:
Delivered in 1982
- Rockwell truck sideframes with high brake cylinders
- C36-7 late 7-grille hood
- Extended range dynamic brake “hump”
- Late rear with raised numberboards and low (blanked) class lights
- Large “silenced” exhaust with early (small) exhaust inside
- 2-window cab with flagholder
- N&W/NS-specific lower pilot step
- Smooth nose
- Firecracker antenna
- Open cutout NS plow
- Open cutout NS plow on rear
- Banked class lights
- Ditchlights front and rear
The Rapido HO Scale C36-7 Locomotive features:
- Headlights and rear lights
- Class lights, marker lights, or ditch lights, where applicable
- Step lights
- Lit numberboards
- Full traction motor casing details
- Metal brake chain on engineer’s side
- Detailed underbody piping and conduit
- Separate grab irons
- Rapido’s innovative dead straight metal side handrails with plastic stanchions
- Detailed cab interior
- Lighted control stand
- Heavy, die-cast weight for heavy hauling
- 5-pole skew-wound motor with dual flywheels
- Loco is:
-
DC/Silent (21-pin DCC Ready)**
-
DC/Silent (21-pin DCC Ready)**
**Lombard Hobbies Recommendation - As modelers ourselves we highly recommend ONLY running DCC on DCC systems and DC on DC systems, regardless of 'Dual-Mode' capability. This gives optimum performance and safeguards the unit from possible damage from running on a different system than originally intended and from any inexperienced operator errors.
Prototype History:
The C36-7 was General Electric’s higher-horsepower six-axle Dash-7 offering, with a 16-cylinder 3,600 horsepower or 3,750 hp rating (compared to the C30-7's 3,000 hp.) Built between July 1979 and February 1989, over 599 total units were produced. Of those, 129 were domestic orders for Conrail, Missouri Pacific, Norfolk & Western, and Norfolk Southern.
Despite smaller production numbers, the C36-7 was ordered at key moments that resulted in it representing the evolution of GE’s Dash-7 line more than the popular C30-7's. When GE launched “1977 Series Locomotives” (Dash-7's) in, they cataloged a C30-7, C33-7, and C36-7. Railroads immediately ordered C30-7's for booming coal service. The C33-7 was never ordered. The C36-7 was ignored until 1979, when National de Mexico and Ferrocarril del Pacifico placed orders.
In March 1981, GE built the first domestic order of C36-7's – a small order of 6 for Norfolk and Western. N&W received 25 more C36-7's in the “Claytor” scheme a year later in 1982. All of the N&W units featured a slight late-production change in hood doors and seams behind the cab, shared with late production C30-7's. They were set up short hood forward, and their high horsepower was put to good use on N&W’s heavy trains.
Lombard Hobbies = Big Inventory ∙ Value Pricing ∙ Fast Shipping ∙ Great Service
