Ho Scale Rapido GE U25Bs

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RAPIDO #35523 GE U25B HIGH HOOD: UNION PACIFIC: #627 W/DC/DCC/SOUND • Order Today At: www.TrainWorld.com! • https://www.trainworld.com/model-trai... • RAPIDO #35506 GE U25B LOW HOOD: SANTA FE - PINSTRIPE SCHEME: #1610 W/DC/DCC/SOUND • https://www.trainworld.com/model-trai... • RAPIDO #35503 GE U25B LOW HOOD: GREAT NORTHERN - EMPIRE BUILDER SCHEME: #2505 W/DC/DCC/SOUND • https://www.trainworld.com/model-trai... • In the late 1950s GE’s engineers were developing a new V16 engine, and in mid-1958 it entered the testing phase. Just under a year later, in May 1959, a new locomotive with a clean-looking high-nosed hood diesel with that new FDL16 diesel engine under the hood, was released from GE’s Erie, Pennsylvania, factory for testing, soon following by another. Numbered 751 and 752, these new locomotives were designated as model XP24, or Export Test Units 2400 horsepower. As was the custom at GE, these two engines were also handed off to the Erie for testing. These XP24s racked up more than 100,000 miles of rigorous running, and were returned to the factory for modifications. In 1960 these two XP24s re-emerged from GE’s plant in a new paint job – blue and off-white – a higher horsepower rating – 2500-hp – and a new model designation – U25B. These two demonstrators were sent out into a railroading climate in which there were just two locomotive builders – Alco and EMD (and their Canadian subsidiaries Montreal Locomotive Works and General Motors Diesel) – and an economic recession. Working in GE’s favor, however, was their long history of not only building electric and diesel-electric locomotives (their first diesel-electric, a 200-hp steeple-cab for the Jay Street Railway in New York, was built in 1918), but also a solid track-record of supplying components to nearly all the other locomotive builders, particularly Alco and EMD, for many decades. In fact, GE had been successfully selling a line of small switchers for industrial and short line use, and even getting orders for their 44-ton and 70-ton diesels from many Class 1 railroads in the process. The big roads had some familiarity with their products, at least. (And the UP had owned some of the GE gas turbines, too, before the U25 was created.). Adding to their muscle, as it were, was that General Electric was a fairly large customer for these roads, shipping a sizable about of consumer products – refrigerators, stoves, air conditioners, - by rail. There is anecdotal evidence that the railroads would often order a few GE diesels along with their larger EMD orders to keep GE on-board as a shipping customer. However, with their new U25B, GE had a number or large railroads place orders based upon the success of the demonstrator tour. The HO scale U25B Locomotive features: Phase I, II III units represented in 1st run. (Phase IV other units will come with future runs) Single-window style for low nose units. (Double-window in future runs) Both low- high-short hood versions Early high- later low-style side doors. Road specific details for each model Working step lights on low-short hood models Different roadname-specific exhaust stacks Roadname-specific battery box doors on engineer’s side Roadname-specific air cleaner boxes on rear Working inspection lights on all units Lighted control stand inside cab Different types of fuel air tanks, as appropriate • The model railroad equipment accessories we sell are not toys, and are not intended for use by children under the age of 14

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