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Summary of Contents for Rapido Trains RDC
- Page 1 Français au verso.
- Page 2 RDC shuttles with timed connections to nearby VIA services. As such, if you need some parts for your RDC you are on your own. But we will be more than happy to offer you freight delivery service at competitive prices! This sound-equipped Rapido model features an ESU Loksound V5 decoder.
- Page 3 RDC to pull itself. If you tow anything behind your RDC you do so at your own risk. Your warranty is well and truly void if you pull unpowered equipment behind your RDC. The emphasis is unpowered. Coupling up to another Rapido RDC is perfectly fine.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Missing or Damaged Parts .................. 8 What Are All the Extra Bits? ................9 Interior Lights and Number Boards ..............11 Checking and Adjusting your RDC ..............12 Removing the Shell ................... 12 Operation – DC (Silent) ................13 Installing a Silent DCC Decoder ..............13 Operation –... -
Page 5: What's New
RDC did not sound like an F unit. If they have a video with an RDC sounding like an F7, it was a silent film over which some shmoe dubbed F7 sounds. The RDC sounded like a bus. If you really want your RDC to sound like an F7, go buy an F7 decoder and put it in yourself. - Page 6 D-100 up. RDC-2s were D-200 up. RDC-3s were D-300 up. RDC-4s were D-400 up and RDC-9s were D500 up. Due to popular public response to the initial units that CN purchased in 1954-1959, CN purchased additional second-hand units from B&M, C&O, C&EI, B&M in 1964 and 1965 to meet traffic demands.
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Page 7: Break-In
We suggest that, after reading this manual, you put your RDC model on a test loop and just let it run in each direction for a half hour or so. Fast and slow. You don’t need to add any grease or oil to the gearboxes. -
Page 8: Missing Or Damaged Parts
Kids play tables are just asking for trouble too, simply because your RDC is NOT A TOY! If you gave your RDC to your four-year-old grandson you clearly have money to burn and we’d like you to contribute $10,000 to our RDC restoration efforts. -
Page 9: What Are All The Extra Bits
You can send the RDC back and we’ll glue all the parts back on and pack the thing in a mile of toilet paper before sending it back to you. As an added benefit, the toilet paper may come in handy for other purposes as well. - Page 10 • Horns. We’ve installed appropriate horns for your model. Some models will also include an additional horn in the polybag in the event the real RDC wore differ- ent types over the years. If you end up with a spare or two, can also use them to replace some of the totally wrong horns on your non-Rapido models.
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Page 11: Interior Lights And Number Boards
… with the Rapido Lighter! Just wave the magnetic wand over the long end of the RDC roof (that’s the end with six windows instead of five) and you’ll toggle the lights on and off … on and off … on and off … Sheer brilliance! The switch is hidden in... -
Page 12: Checking And Adjusting Your Rdc
REMOVING THE SHELL If you need to open up your RDC to add people it is actually quite easy to do. Just be sure to remember these important points: •... -
Page 13: Operation - Dc (Silent)
OPERATION – DC (SILENT) If your RDC is not equipped with a sound decoder, it should function like most other HO scale locomotives. Put it on the track. Give it some juice. Watch it go. -
Page 14: Operation - Dc (Sound)
If you want to run your sound-equipped RDC on a DC layout, the Back-EMF circuit can cause issues when you’re trying to bring your RDC to a stop. To turn off Back-EMF, you will need to bring your RDC to a model railroad equipped with DCC and set CV49 to 18. -
Page 15: Operation - Dcc (Sound)
He was just fiddling with function F3 on his DCC controller, switching it on and off. You can do great things with our sound-equipped RDC on a DCC layout. Note that our RDC does not have ESU’s new* “Full Throttle” control but using F3 you can get a pretty close approximation of that feature. -
Page 16: Turn On The Sound
Delay” and at the time of writing it is on page 89 of the ESU LokSound 5 manual. If you press F8 when the RDC is already moving, it will skip the startup and the sound will just turn on. Press F8 again to turn the sound off. -
Page 17: Functions And Prototypical Operation
Note that this function controls the sound only and not the motor speed, which is still controlled using the throttle settings as normal. That means that, if you forget to turn off F3, your RDC will still be roaring at full throttle even if you bring it to a stop. F4 Brakes F4 works just like the brakes on a real engine. - Page 18 F6 Ditch Lights (where applicable) F6 turns on the ditch lights. If your RDC does not have ditch lights, the LEDs are still there, and turning them on will make your RDC glow like it’s possessed. The ditch lights are directional.
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Page 19: Horns And Bells
HORNS AND BELLS The default horn on your RDC model is a Nathan M3H. Yes, we know, not all RDCs had one, but we had to pick one. We wanted each RDC to have their unique horn by default, but doing so would be really complicated and would’ve taken Mohan an estimated 3,792,564 minutes of programming to accomplish that. -
Page 20: Factory Reset
0-128 FACTORY RESET On your RDC, you perform a factory reset by entering a value of “8” into CV 8. Note that this will cause all of your new volume and motor settings to be lost, so you will need to reprogram any settings that you want to keep. -
Page 21: More Information
RDC gets damaged, please give us a shout and we’ll do our best to help you out. Yes, even if it was your fault we will try our best to fix your RDC for you. Don’t be shy! -
Page 22: Acknowledgements
A very special thank you goes out to Chris Fox too. Chris should be known as Superman. Better yet, we’ll just call him RDC Man! Na na na na na na na na RDC MAAAAAAN! He can resurrect anything rail or road-related, as long as it runs on oil, hopes and dreams.