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Rapido Trains Inc. HO H1a 4-6-4 Hudson Locomotive With DCC & Sound CPR #2800

Original price was: $379.00.Current price is: $99.99.

SKU: RPI601504 Category: Locomotives Tag: Rapido Trains Inc.

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Features

Designed from prototype drawings and measurements
Road number specific factory applied details for each unit
Separately applied metal hand rails and grabs
Blackened wheels and driving rods
Correct cylinders and valve gear
Smooth-running drive train
Accurate and complete piping, under body and tender details
Correct coal tenders for regular service units
Correct oil tender for the post-restoration version of #2816

Early or later style walkways
“Elephant Ear” smoke deflectors on correctly numbered models
“Flickering” fire box in detailed cab (DCC controlled)
Working head light, classification lights, interior cab light and back up lights (DCC controlled)
Metal Macdonald-Cartier Knuckle Couplers mounted at correct height
DCC sound version includes synchronized chuff, accurate whistles, bells, air pumps, generator,safety valves and many other effects! (Not all sound features of DCC sound units will functionin DC mode)
Accurate paint and decoration
22″ Minimum radius

Overview

Designed by Chief of Motive Power & Rolling Stock Henry Blane Bowen, Canadian Pacific’s H1a and H1b class4-6-4 Hudson locos were state-of-the-art steam power when delivered. A total of twenty locos were deliveredin two batches of ten each. The first batch, numbers #2800-2809, were delivered in 1929 and classified H1a. Thesecond ten, numbers #2810-2819, were delivered in 1930 and were classified H1b. These locomotives were usedon mainline passenger trains across the CP’s system. So success full were they that CP used their design as thebasis for its “Royal Hudsons” seven years later, which were designated as class H1c through H1d. Both classessurvived intact until the end of steam, with the first retirements not coming until 1957.

Rapido’s H1a/b HO scale models are based on their hugely successful Royal Hudson. Rapido is offering severaldifferent detail variations which allow you to model these locos at any point throughout their service life,including the preserved #2816.