O GP9 w/PS3 CP by MTH (MTH20202041)

20-20204-1

Product Line: Premier
Roadname: Canadian Pacific
GP-9 Diesel Engine With Proto-Sound 3.0 - Canadian Pacific

Cab Nos. 8671, 8676 & 8682

First appeared in: 2012 Volume 1

Electro-Motive Division's GP (for "General Purpose") engines were the brainchild of project engineer Dick Dilworth. In the late 1940s, Dilworth saw that America's 30,000 miles of main line rail had been virtually dieselized, but the 130,000 miles of secondary lines that carried half of the nation's freight traffic were still largely steam powered. He viewed that as a huge marketing opportunity.

In The Dilworth Story, a book published by Electro-Motive Division in 1954, Dilworth explained how he tried to meet that opportunity: "In planning the GP, I had two dreams. The first was to make a locomotive so ugly in appearance that no railroad would want it on the main line or anywhere near headquarters, but would keep it out as far as possible in the back country, where it could do really useful work. My second dream was to make it so simple in construction and so devoid of Christmas-tree ornaments and other whimsy that the price would be materially below our standard main-line freight locomotives."

Of course, Dilworth's explanation conveniently ignored the fact that Alco's arguably uglier RS-1 had introduced the road switcher concept eight years before EMD. And in one sense, Dilworth's project was a failure. Railroads bought Geeps for mainline service and relegated older power to secondary lines as they had always done. But his brainchild became the runaway best-seller among first-generation diesel power. U.S. and Canadian railroads bought nearly 7,000 copies of the 1500 horsepower GP7, introduced in 1949, and the 1750 horsepower GP9, produced from 1954 through 1963.

In those early days of diesel power, experienced engineers loved the Geep cab because, unlike the new streamliners, it felt like home to them. An engineer in a Geep running long hood forward sat near the back of the engine, looking out over the power plant - just as he had in a steam engine. Even running short hood forward, the engineer's view was out past the engine's nose, similar to a steamer.

The GP9 returns to the Premier line with the full range of superb detailing you expect in a Premier locomotive: see-through end steps, body side grilles, and roof fan housings; metal side and end handrails; separate metal grab irons; metal lift rings on its roof panels; windshield wipers; and the super-detailed Blomberg trucks introduced earlier on our Premier F-units. Our Geeps also feature authentic first-generation diesel sounds including a single-chime air horn and the throb of an EMD 16-cylinder model 567 prime mover - so named because each of its cylinders displaced 567 cubic inches.
Features
Intricately Detailed ABS Body
Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
Colorful Paint Scheme
Metal Chassis
Metal Handrails and Decorative Horn
(2) Engineer Cab Figures
Metal Body Side Grilles
Operating Smoke Unit
(2) Remotely Controlled Proto-Couplersr
1:48 Scale Proportions
Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
(2) Precision Flywheel Equipped Motors
Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
Lighted Cab Interior
Illuminated Number Boards
Lighted Marker Lights
Moveable Roof Fan Blades
Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Freight Yard Proto-Effects
Unit Measures:14 3/4" x 2 1/2" x 3 3/4"
Operates On O-31 Curves Diesel DCC Features
Headlight
Bell
Whistle/Horn
Start Up/Shut Down
Rear Coupler
Front Coupler
Engine Sounds On/Off
Sound Volume
Ditch Lights Auto/On/Off
Forward Signal
Reverse Signal
Grade Crossing Signal
Cab Light On/Off
Extended Start Up
Extended Shut Down
Rev Up
Rev Down
Coupler Slack Sound
Coupler Close
One-Shot Doppler
Feature Reset
Idle Sequence 1
Idle Sequence 2
Idle Sequence 3
Brakes Auto/Off
Cab Chatter Auto/Off
Clickety-Clack Auto/Off

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