HO GP30u Rebuild (DCC/Sound): Santa Fe #2753
(Different road number shown)
From Scale Trains:
A new era continues with the Rivet Counter HO Scale EMD GP30. First introduced in 1961, the GP30 would become one of the most common locomotives on the rails for the next two decades. Our Rivet Counter series model renders numerous variations of cabs, dynamic brakes, doors, grilles, trucks, etc. We’ve also incorporated LED lighting effects including front, rear, and side walkway lights; ground lights; printed and lighted number boards; and ditch lights.
Features:
- New paint scheme
- Era: Late 80s to Mid-90s
- Road number specific: EOT antenna stand on left side of cab roof
- Front ATSF-style relocated LED-illuminated headlight with lenses in low short hood; blanked number board light mount
- GP30 cab with increased length on left (fireman’s) side, cab heater vents deleted, and flat center windshield section
- Fully-assembled
- LED-illuminated ground lights on both sides of locomotive*
- LED-illuminated “hemisphere” walkway lights on hood ends, and at end of raised walkway duct*
- Blanked front and rear class lights with round plate
- LED-illuminated, printed and backlit cab number boards, and blanked long hood end number boards
- Vapor Corp. cab roof HVAC
- Front and rear multiple unit (MU) hose catch bars
- 3-hose multiple unit (MU) hose clusters with silver gladhands
- Semi-scale coupler buffer equipped with durable metal semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers
- Front and rear straight uncoupling levers with loop handles; two inner and two outer mounting brackets
- Modified pilot faces with uncoupling lever loop notches
- Deck-mounted multiple unit (MU) receptacle
- Dummy multiple unit (MU) receptacles with cable mounted to pilot face
- Handrail set with center gangway chains
- Front and rear standard drop steps
- Scale sectioned treadplate detail with EMD early “X” style pattern
- 81” GP30 low short hood with ratchet handbrake, chain guard, and square sand fill
- Hinged battery box doors with early hinges and narrow louvers
- Early cab sub-base doors with early hinges
- Detailed cab interior with separate floor, rear wall, seats, and standard AAR control stand
- Rectangular vent on left side of cab
- Sliding cab side windows
- Tall wind wings mounted fore of cab windows, left side, and small mirror on right side
- Standard EMD sunshades with long sunshade tracks
- Lost-wax brass cast Nathan AirChime K3LA horn mounted to right side cab roof eave.
- Large Sinclair Excalibur “ice skate” antenna (communications) mounted on a stand centered on the cab roof
- Accurate hood door and long hood detail
- Late single-panel inertial compartment with retrofitted latched and hinged access doors
- Wire inertial air intake grills
- Tall turbo exhaust stack
- Standard-range dynamic brakes with 48” fan
- Late See-through dynamic brake intake grills with horizontal wires through vertical vanes
- 7-horizontal rib radiator intake grills
- See-through front and rear 48” radiator fan housings with 8-blade fans; 36” pan-top center radiator fan
- Curved radiator fan grab iron
- Square sand fill hatch on top of long hood end
- Rear LED-illuminated horizontal headlight with lenses
- Underbody frame rail with separate plumbing
- Detailed Blomberg-B trucks with Hyatt bearing housings; elliptical springs; end transom detail; separate sanding lines and brackets; deleted outer brake shoes; and separate swing hanger detail
- Dimensionally accurate truck centers
- Aeroquip speed recorder on #2 axle, left side.
- Spare knuckle holders mounted to truck sideframes
- Frame-mounted bronze bell
- Prime air filter (can style)
- 2,600-gallon fuel tank sill skirt removed and relocated vertical gauges; round gauges in fuel tank sides; fuel fillers exposed
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, photoetched lift rings, windshield wipers, trainline hoses with silver gladhands, air tanks, sand hatch covers and more
- Motor with 5-pole skew wound armature
- Dual flywheels
- All-wheel drive
- All-wheel electrical pick-up
- Directional LED-illuminated headlights
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Operates on Code 70, 83, and 100 rail
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
DCC & sound equipped locomotives also feature:
- ESU LokSound 5 DCC & Sound decoder with “Full Throttle”
- Two (2) cube-type speakers
- Turbocharged 16-645D3A prime mover sound
- ESU designed “PowerPack” with two super capacitors***
- Operates on both DC and DCC layouts
* Lighting features operate when using an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
** Class lights illuminate in white color only in DC operation. Access and changing colors requires an ESU decoder with appropriate programming while operating using DCC
***“PowerPack” feature only compatible with appropriately programmed ESU decoders operating on a DCC layout