MTH 30-20651-1 GP-7 Diesel Engine New York Central #5694 with PS3

Road Name: New York Central. Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body.

Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank. Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears. Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlights. Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments. Unit Measures: 14 3/4" x 2 1/2" x 3 3/4.

Electro-Motive Division's GP (for "General Purpose") engines were the brainchild of project engineer Dick Dilworth. He viewed that as a huge marketing opportunity.

In The Dilworth Story, a book published by Electro-Motive Division in 1954, Dilworth explained how he tried to meet that opportunity: In planning the GP, I had two dreams. The first was to make a locomotive so ugly in appearance that no railroad would want it on the main line or anywhere near headquarters, but would keep it out as far as possible in the back country, where it could do really useful work. Of course, Dilworth's explanation conveniently ignored the fact that Alco's arguably uglier RS-1 had introduced the road switcher concept eight years before EMD.

And in one sense, Dilworth's project was a failure. Railroads bought Geeps for mainline service and relegated older power to secondary lines as they had always done. And Canadian railroads bought nearly 7,000 copies of the 1500 horsepower GP7, introduced in 1949, and the 1750 horsepower GP9, produced from 1954 through 1963.

In those early days of diesel power, experienced engineers loved the Geep cab because, unlike the new streamliners, it felt like home to them. An engineer in a Geep running long hood forward sat near the back of the engine, looking out over the power plant - just as he had in a steam engine. Even running short hood forward, the engineer's view was out past the engine's nose, similar to a steamer. Adding a fully featured, scale-proportioned locomotive to your diesel roster has never been easier than with the RailKing Scale GP7. Our Geeps feature authentic first-generation diesel sounds including a single-chime air horn and the throb of an EMD 16-cylinder model 567 prime mover - so named because each of its cylinders displaced 567 cubic inches.

Twin flywheel-equipped motors, Proto-Speed Control that provides steady speeds from three scale miles per hour to full throttle, and twin remote-control Proto-Couplers make our Geeps ideal for any chore from slow-speed switching to mainline hauling, just like the prototype. The item "MTH 30-20651-1 GP-7 Diesel Engine New York Central #5694 with PS3" is in sale since Sunday, May 24, 2020. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Model Railroads & Trains\O Scale\Locomotives". The seller is "korbermodelsusa" and is located in Atlanta, Indiana.

This item can be shipped to United States.

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