A Limited Edition Rapido Trains GE C36-7 Locomotive painted for freelance model railroad Allegheny Midland!
The GE C36-7 by Rapido Trains is the second Home Shops locomotive offering! We worked very closely with Tony Koester on this historic Allegheny Midland project. You can now add AM motive power to your collection to pull your freelance rolling stock!
The legendary Allegheny Midland is the well known freelance model railroad created by Tony Koester. It requires very little introduction as it has been published in many places over the decades.
The Norfolk Southern version was selected as the core model for the Home Shops Allegheny Midland locomotive as the simple details are in-line with what Tony's vision of a AM Locomotive would have been.
This small-batch factory-painted locomotive is available in two road numbers, each in both DC/DCC/Sound and DC/Silent versions.
The Rapido HO Scale C36-7 Locomotive features:
- Headlights and rear lights
- Class lights, marker lights, or ditch lights, where applicable
- Step lights
- Lit numberboards
- Full traction motor casing details
- 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
Allegheny Midland Specific GE C36-7 features:
- Rockwell truck sideframes with high brake cylinders
- C36-7 late 7-grille hood
- Extended range dynamic brake “hump”
- Late rear w/raised numberboards & low (blanked) class lights
- Large “silenced” exhaust with early (small) exhaust inside
- 2-window cab
- N&W/NS-specific lower pilot step
- Firecracker antennas
- Open cutout NS plows Front & Rear
- Ditchlights front and rear
- Sound-equipped units feature ESU Loksound V5 decoders