Product Features and Details
Prototype: Type General Motors EMD F7 SOO Line. Three compartment unit A unit, B unit and A-unit. . Güterzugbegleitwagen (Caboose) of the SOO-Line
Model: mfx digital decoder and extensive sound functions. The locomotive in the A-units. The 2 axles powered. Traction tires. Direction of travel, changing peak in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Direction of travel, illuminated number boards and marker lights in conventionally controlled digitally. Mars light separately switchable. The headlights are maintenance-free warm white light emitting diodes (LED). The engineer's cabs have interior details. Permanent drawbar between the locomotive units. Snowplow settled. Caboose (Caboose) with frame and detailed floor made ??of metal. Brake system, platform railing, grab irons, and many other details are separately applied. Detailed trucks with special wheel. Length of the F7 via couplings approximately 52 cm. Length over the couplers 14.5 cm Caboose.
Highlights: Lighting with warm white LEDs. Lighted number boards and marker lights. Mars light. The engineer's cabs have interior details.
F7 the SOO Line caboose. To a true bestseller in the U.S. railways developed which produced 1949-1953 "Bulldogs" series F7/FP7 of General Motors EMD. This proves true the saying that it is easier to enumerate the railway companies that had bought no F7 units, as to remember all those who took the F7 in their services. The F7 were everywhere! 50 railway companies bought the new F7, and in more than 75 North American tracks they finally made ??their service. Although their classification "F" (= freight) showed the originally envisaged by EMD use primarily in the freight service, but the F7 initially developed for classic diesel locomotive in the U.S. passenger-1950s because of their existing boilers for steam heating. The 1500 American horsepower (1,500 hp) equipped and produced in a total of 4,221 units F7 was divided into three sub-types: The F7A with Endführerstand came to 2,366 copies, the leader was loose F7B reached 1,483 units, and the prolonged and larger water storage equipped for steam heating FP7 brought it to 372 pieces. So it is no wonder that even the relatively unknown Soo Line Railroad some copies of the F7 series led in their inventory. Specifically, there were 26 F7A, six F7B and also six FP7. Two machines were preserved even: the FP7 500 as Denkmalslok in Ladysmith / WI and the FP7 2500 as operative Museumslok in the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth / MN. Of interest is the history of the Soo Line Railroad: Prominent businessmen from Minneapolis founded in 1883 the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railroad, which quickly due to the pronunciation of "Sault" as a term was Soo Line. The Soo Line was to convey primarily the grain products of Minnesota's farmers and mills quickly to the eastern markets. In 1888 it was renamed the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and the route network expanded gradually over the upper Midwest to Canada. 1909 took over the Soo Line in the form of a lease contract, the Wisconsin Central Railway. Finally merged in 1961, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad official with the Wisconsin Central Railway and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad under the new name Soo Line Railroad. 1985 acquired the Soo Line, the remnants of the previous defeat Milwaukee Road. In the 1990s, the Canadian Pacific Railway took over as long a shareholder fully the railway company, thus ending its existence as an independent company.