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Rapido HO Scale GE B30-7A Booster (Cabless) – Burlington Northern BN #4102 – DCC Sound
DC/DCC/Sound: ESU LokSound V5 decoder with the correct 12-cylinder FDL sound file 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 4053-4119:
- 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
- 4053-4119: built in 1983, raised dynamic brake section
- No cab, no horn, no bell
- 4053-4119: Rear with unique 7-grille arrangement
- 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 the units in two batches. The first 53 units in 1982 were as if a usual 4-axle Dash-7 forgot to have a cab, with blank space where it would be. The second order for 67 units in 1983 came with some entirely unique features reflecting their late build date. The dynamic brake section was raised to accommodate different equipment, identical to a design on a small, specific batch of NS C36-7’s. Similarly, the 7-grille arrangement in the rear is also like those late-production C36-7’s, two large horizontal stacked panels instead of one.
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 4054 (4053-4119 series), Corona, CA, March 20, 1985 – photo courtesy Craig Walker (via Rapido Trains). Pre-production model photo shows the raised dynamic brake section of the 4053-4119 order. Artwork and pre-production models are subject to change before final production.
