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Product Information:
With GO’s rapid popularity and route expansions in the early 1970s, they quickly found themselves in need of additional equipment. In need of new power for their trains, GO turned to GMD for GP40-2L locomotives built largely to CN’s specifications. Despite the earlier GP40TC units being equipped with HEL, the drawback of the GP40-2WL fleet was that they lacked a HEP generator. GOs solution was to construct Auxiliary Power Control Units or APCUs from the cores of retired Ontario Northland FP7 locomotives. These had their prime movers replaced with 900 HP HEP generators to provide electricity to the growing fleet of single level cars and later the new multi-level fleet that began arriving in 1976.
Features:
- Designed from original EMD/GMD blueprints and field measurement
- First ever accurate GO FP7 APCU — not a stand-in!
- Era-specific details applied at the factory
- Etched metal grilles
- Early or later style nose detailing
- Full cab interior
- Operational headlight
- Operating ditch lights on later era models
- Operational numberboards, class lights and backup light (DCC)
- Drive system designed for silky-smooth slow-speed operation
- Metal Macdonald-Cartier Knuckle Couplers
- DC/DCC/Sound versions featuring ESU LokSound V5 decoder with accurate HEP, horn and bell sounds
- MoPower capacitor system for uninterrupted DCC power
- 18” Minimum Radius curves suggested
