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Product Information:
Rapido HO Scale GE B30-7A – Missouri Pacific MP #4842 – DC Version
DC/Silent: 21-pin DCC Ready (no decoder or sound installed). Mo-Power capacitor system for uninterrupted operation in DCC.
HO Scale B23-7, B30-7, B30-7A Locomotives features:
- “Phase III” details for the wide variety of Dash-7 4-axle models
- Headlights and rear lights
- Tri-color class lights (where applicable)
- Ditch lights (where applicable)
- Lit numberboards
- Walkway Lights
- Step lights
- Full traction motor casing details
- Rotating bearing caps
- 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
- Sound-equipped units feature ESU LokSound V5 decoders
- Many road specific details – see table
- Suggested minimum radius: 18"
Road Specific Details – Missouri Pacific B30-7A, Road Numbers 4800 - 4854:
- Phase III B30-7A with a 3,000hp 12-cylinder engine
- Correct 12-cylinder FDL sound file for sound equipped models
- Six tall hood doors for the 12-cylinder engine
- MP 4800-4854 built in 1981-1982
- Rear hood has 4-grille arrangement
- Raised rear numberboards
- Lower rear class lights
- Front class lights
- Tall bathtub exhaust
- Adirondack or Rockwell FB-2 truck frames
- Rotating Timken bearings
- Plow
GE made another new model once Phase III features were in place: the B30-7A. By this point, GE had found that the 2,300hp 12-cylinder FDL engine used in U23B’s and B23-7’s could be uprated to 3,000hp, offering the B30-7’s horsepower with better fuel economy. Missouri Pacific tested uprating 3 of their B23-7’s to 3,000hp and liked them so much they ordered 55 B30-7A models in 1981-1982. These often ran in sets of three on hot trains across their system. Southern also ordered 22 B30-7A1 units built on a slightly longer frame.
Prototype photo: MP 4804, North Little Rock, AR, May 15, 1983 – photo courtesy Craig Walker (via Rapido Trains). Prototype photo: MP 4811, North Little Rock, AR, March 26, 1983 – photo courtesy Craig Walker (via Rapido Trains). Artwork and pre-production models are subject to change before final production.
