Rapido Trains Inc HO 42012 DCC Ready GE C30-7 Locomotive Conrail CR #6608

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Rapido Trains Inc HO 42012 DCC Ready GE C30-7 Locomotive Conrail CR #6608

Conrail-specific Features:

Delivered in 1977
- Adirondack truck sideframes with high brake cylinders
- 4-grille hood with extended range dynamic brakes
- Early rear with flush numberboards and high class lights
- Small early exhaust
- 4-window cab with flag holder
- Anticlimber
- High headlight
- Small “weed-cutter” plow
- Red marker lights
- Step lights

The Rapido Trains HO scale GE C30-7 locomotive features:

Correct nose and body contours
High or Low headlights, as appropriate
Correct Rockwell or Adirondack trucks, as appropriate
Full traction motor casings details
Heavy, die-cast weight for heavy hauling
5-pole skew-wound motor with dual flywheels
Operating headlights and rear lights
Operating roof-top beacons and class lights, where applicable
Detailed underbody piping and conduit
Separate grab irons and handrails
Sound-equipped units feature ESU Loksound V5 decoders**

**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 Information:

Rapido is happy to announce the next in our series of classic General Electric locomotives, the C30-7 in HO scale.

The C30-7 was General Electric’s improvement of the U30C locomotive, featuring a 16-cylinder 3,000 horsepower diesel engine. Built between September 1976 and May 1986, over 1100 units were produced for many of the Class I railroads across the United States for use primarily in heavy-haul freight. A fair number would go on to have extended careers with both short/regional lines and private industrial railroads, owing to the locomotives reliability and pulling power.

It is, perhaps, the most polarizing locomotive from the 1980s and early 90s. The C30-7 was GE's answer to the SD40-2. When one thinks of Powder River and coal, the C30-7 isn't far behind. Burlington Northern owned the most in the States, with just over 240 examples. Santa Fe was a distant second with 157 C30s.

Our C30-7 is based on our earlier B36-7 model, and so the angles and contours should be correct. But we know less about the railroad-specific details, and we want these to be as perfect as possible.

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