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- Page 2 GMD GP9RM +/– SLUG LOCO PRODUCT GUIDELINES Thank you for purchasing this model of the Canadian National rebuilt diesel-electric locomotive, the General Motors Diesel GP9RM with (or without) a slug. If this is your first Rapido locomotive, we must ask – why is this your first Rapido locomotive? No, seriously, we’ve been around now for 20 years now and have been pumping out a lot of beauty Canadian products, eh? We’ve produced a metric tonne of Canadian products, like the Canadian, Royal Hudson, Dash 8-40CM, RS-...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Prototype History....................4 Break-In ......................4 How to Hold Your Locomotive ................5 Checking and Adjusting Your Locomotive .............. 5 Missing or Damaged Parts .................. 6 Removing the Shell ..................... 6 Operation – DC (Silent) ..................8 Installing a DCC Decoder .................. -
Page 4: Prototype History
PROTOTYPE HISTORY In the early 1980s, CN embarked on a rebuild program in their Pointe Ste. Charles shops to extend the operating lives of their GP9s. The “GP9RM” was the result, which was divided into three groups: The 4000/4100 series were rebuilt as road units, the 7000 series as switchers, and the 7200/200 series as “mother”... -
Page 5: How To Hold Your Locomotive
HOW TO HOLD YOUR LOCOMOTIVE Hold your GP9RM or slug gently, and with much love, care, and attention. Your model has numerous delicate parts, especially on the roof and underframe. If you want to back date it to be the quality of a model produced in the 1970s, then rip all the parts off and handle it like a big bowl of homemade poutine after playing in a hockey tournament. -
Page 6: Missing Or Damaged Parts
and both coupler trip pins. Bend up any low coupler trip pins so they don’t interfere with your switches and crossings. We recommend using Kadee part #237 (Trip Pin Pliers) or Micro-Mark part #80600 (Trip Pin Bending Plier). If your track transitions from flat to a 12% grade in three inches, you might also want to cut off the pilot and the fuel tank as they will foul the rails. - Page 7 The only way to find it is to walk barefoot and hope that it impales your foot in the most painful way possible. And if you decide to use this method to find the missing parts, you’re not covered by our health plan. •...
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Page 8: Operation - Dc (Silent)
broken body as scenery. We did warn you after all. If we can assist, then all joking aside we’ll make every effort to do so. But note that we don’t have a warehouse full of shells and cabs to replace the broken ones. OPERATION –... -
Page 9: Operation - Dc (Sound)
We feel the 21-pin connectors are superior because there are enough pins to ensure that all your lighting functions are connected. The necessary resistors are included on our motherboard so you don’t have to futz around with resistors. Just plug in one of the recommended decoders and you have DCC. -
Page 10: Operation - Dcc (Sound)
— WA R NING — Rapido products are designed to operate safely between 0V and 16V. Voltages in excess of 16V - as well as irregular waveforms, voltage spikes or short circuits - may cause severe and sometimes irreversible damage to the product. -
Page 11: Locomotive Address
starting momentum has been pre-programmed into the decoder to replicate that massive weight. If you want to eliminate the delay to speed up, program CV3=00, but when freight customers complain about their damaged cargo, don't blame us! More detailed decoder instructions, including all sorts of weird CV settings we don’t understand, can be found in the ESU LokSound V5 decoder manual. -
Page 12: Functions
FUNCTIONS Rear Headlight Front Headlight Strobe Lights & Remote Belt Pack Bell (if equipped) Horn F15* Isolation Switch Flange Squeal F16* Air Dyer On Shut Down Dynamic Brake Automatic Brake Set/Release Doppler Horn F18* Ground Lights Ditchlights (if equipped) F19* Numberboards Dim the Headlights Air Compressor Startup/Mute/Shutdown... - Page 13 F4 Dynamic Brake (not equipped!) GP9RMs and their slugs do not have dynamic brakes, but you can press F4 to get dynamic brake sounds anyways. You caDSn think about using F4, but that would be so wrong. F5 Doppler Horn* You can play this when approaching level crossings or any other whistle post.
- Page 14 be on. Then as you increase the throttle, you hear the prime mover revving up. This sounds awesome, especially when you’re trying to shove a big string of cars. “Full Throttle” is even neater when you throttle down, as it allows you to simulate “coasting”...
- Page 15 F14 Strobe Lights & Remote Belt Pack (if equipped) Eventually the 7200-series units were equipped with red strobe lights that were activated when the unit was being operated remotely by a crew on the ground using a belt pack remote. F14 toggles the strobe lights on your unit on/off, if you're lucky to have them at all.
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Page 16: Custom Sound Settings
F26 Manual Notching Up/Run 8* Kind of like the old “Straight to 8” function from several years ago, hitting F26 with F28 OFF will cause the prime mover to notch all the way to Run 8 and stay there. This will not effect loco speed, just the sound it makes. Great for pulling out of a station with a long train. -
Page 17: Sound Volume Settings
Horns Bells • CV163=0 Leslie S-3K-R • CV 164=0 Bronze Bell #1 (Default) • CV163=1 Leslie S-3L-R • CV 164=1 Steel Bell #1 • CV163=2 Leslie S-5T-RRO-R • CV 164=2 Bronze Bell #2 • CV163=3 Leslie SU-3L-R • CV 164=3 Steel Bell #2 •... -
Page 18: Sound Volume Settings Chart
— V ERY IM PORTANT — Before you manually change any of the volume control CVs, you must set CV 31 to 16 and then CV 32 to 1. CV 31 and CV 32 are used as index selection registers and if you don’t set them first, unspeakable things may happen to your unit. -
Page 19: Factory Reset
FACTORY RESET On your GP9RM and/or slug, you can 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. What do you mean, you didn’t take any notes? WE JUST TOLD YOU TAKE NOTES! If we had a band, you’d be kicked out of it. -
Page 20: Acknowledgements
Goslett, Phil Hall, and Mark Tracy. We also cannot forget Richard Longpre for his wonderful (and last minute) French translation. Merci! CONTACT US! Tel. (905) 474-3314 Rapido Trains Inc. Toll Free 1-855-LRC-6917 500 Alden Road, Unit 21 Fax. (905) 474-3325 Markham, Ontario Email.
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