HO Scale Rivet Counter GP30 ScaleTrains Product Spotlight

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Note: I referred to the class lights as marker lights. My bad! They're class lights!

Just when you think models can't get any better, ScaleTrains releases another one. This time, it's the EMD GP30. On first glance, a GP30 doesn't seem to have a lot of visible details... It seems like a fairly plain-looking locomotive. Then you get this model under the lights and realize there's a lot more than you thought!

From the ScaleTrains website: The 1960s … a turbulent decade of change, home and abroad. Societal and geopolitical issues aside, another area of change was occurring on U.S. railroads. With the transition from steam to diesel largely complete, with hordes of first-generation diesel locomotives in service, the railroads were now looking towards increased horsepower to move increasingly larger and higher-priority trains. Reliability and maintainability were an increasing concern, based upon experience from cantankerous early designs that kept armies of repair crews busy tending to units laid up in backshops. Thanks to competition from the leading builders, revolutionary change was coming to the locomotive world.

As the leading locomotive builder, General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division (EMD) was riding high on the successes of recent designs of the time, such as the GP9 and SD9, their turbocharged successors, the GP20 and SD24, and fleets of streamlined E and F-units. EMD was poised for continued success, but a newcomer was nipping at their heels – General Electric. The longtime supplier of electrical components to locomotive manufacturers was looking into throwing their hat into the ring with an all-new locomotive design of their own, based upon extensive research, testbeds, and feedback from the railroads. The result was the U25B, which introduced the “sealed carbody” concept, where air was drawn into a centralized compartment where it was filtered, supplying cleaner air for the prime mover and auxiliaries. The carbody and main electrical control cabinet was also pressurized slightly, helping to keep out dust and other contaminants. Additionally, its horsepower rating of 2,500 eclipsed the 2,000hp of the competing GP20 from EMD.

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