The Santa Fe CF7 locomotive is a diesel-electric engine originally built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) as an F7 and later rebuilt into a CF7 by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The CF7s were converted from F7 units between 1970 and 1978 to meet the need for more versatile road switchers. These locomotives had their streamlined car bodies replaced with custom-made, general-purpose bodies, making them suitable for switching duties. A total of 233 units were rebuilt, and they were used extensively across the Santa Fe system for various tasks, including switching cars, transporting local freight, and hauling mainline trains. The CF7s became popular on regional railroads, short lines and as grain belt facility switchers after being sold in the 1980s, and some remain in operation today.
Features Include:
- All new tooling.
- Several cab and body variations to accurately match the prototype:
-(5) Cab variations include both rounded and angled roof styles and several different window arrangements
-(2) Body shell variations (2 and 4 port exhaust stacks)
- Road name specific details such as roof mounted antenna plane, horn type and placement, AC units, truck types, cab variations, handrail variations, long hood grill variations and more!
- Solid or chain equipped end railings where appropriate
- Separately applied detail parts such as grab irons, horns and antennas
- Etched metal windshield wipers
- Accurate Painting and Printing
- New! Factory equipped with metal knuckle couplers for better durability
- DC and DCC/Sound versions available.
- Coupler cut levers, Trainline air hoses, MU Hoses
- Accurate Blomberg B Truck Sideframes
- All Wheel Pickup for smooth operation
- Illuminated directional LED headlight and number boards
- Five pole skewed armature motor with dual flywheels for optimum performance at all speeds
- (2) truck variations - Blomberg and Blomberg Modified without external brake shoes
- NMRA compliant RP-25 blackened metal wheels
- Realistic die-cast underframe
- See through fans with separate fan blades
- Gold models are equipped with ESU LokSound.
Atlas Master® Series Silver Additional Features:
- NMRA 21-pin plug for DCC.
ESU Loksound Functionality Features:
- ESU LokSound decoder, supporting all DCC programming modes.
- Flexible mapping of function keys F0 to F31.
- Follows all NMRA DCC standards and recommended practices.
- Over 20 sound effects are available, including engine start-up and shutdown, prime mover sounds through all eight notches, bell, air horn, air compressor and more
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