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Product Information:
Rapido HO Scale GE B30-7A Booster (Cabless) – Burlington Northern BN #4044 (Late Grille) – 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 – Burlington Northern B30-7A, Road Numbers 4000-4052:
- 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
- 4000-4052 built in 1982: “Twinkies”, smooth roofline
- Rear hood with 7-grille arrangement (late 1980’s+ retrofit)
- No cab, no horn, no bell
- Raised rear numberboards
- Lower rear class lights
- Front class lights
- Tall bathtub exhaust
- Rockwell FB-2 truck frames with large casting holes
- Rotating Timken bearings
BN ordered its cabless B30-7As in two batches. The first 53 units in 1982 (4000-4052) were as if a usual 4-axle Dash-7 forgot to have a cab, with blank space where it would be. Originally, they came with 4 grilles on the rear; by the late 1980s, those grilles had been updated to the common 7-grille arrangement.
No matter which cabless unit you order, they were essential, unavoidable power on BN in the 80’s and 90’s. Countless intermodal, manifest, and non-coal unit trains across the system would feature whatever unit with a cab leading, with cabless B’s trailing – often as the only trailing power. Despite lacking a cab, bell, and horn, these still have complete lighting and working tri-color class lights!
Prototype photo: BN 4047 (4000-4052 series), Seattle, WA, October 1985 – photo courtesy Craig Walker (via Rapido Trains). Pre-production model photo shows the smooth roofline of the 4000-4052 order. Artwork and pre-production models are subject to change before final production.
