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CN placed five orders for the FP9A, taking
delivery of 43 units between 1954 and 1958. Many of
these locomotives are still being used today. In
its heyday, the FP9A could be seen leading
passenger trains across Canada and in the Northeast
and Midwest states. It is truly an iconic engine of
20th-century northern railroading.
Until now, if you wanted an FP9A your options were
F7 models painted as FP9As or, worse, FP7 models
with an added detail or two and passed off as
FP9As. Our new True North Locomotives FP9A is being
tooled from the start as an FP9A. That means it
will have all of the correct details for all five
orders of CN¹s locomotives, from the fuel
tanks to the end doors, from the 36" or 48" fans to
the correct number of pipes in the roof-mounted
cooling coils.
Grab irons, bell, headlight style, winterization
hatch and other details will be correctly placed at
the factory for each road number and era.
That¹s right our FP9A will have road number
specific details! This kind of accuracy was only
available in brass... until now.
No stand-ins. No stretches. No fakes. The True
North Locomotives FP9A.
The first product in the True North Locomotives
lineup, the FP9A, features:
- The True North FP9A is a team effort and a
labour of love from a bunch of CN and VIA
fanatics
- Newly redesigned motor and gears for smooth
slow-speed operation.
- Road-number and era-specific details for CN
and VIA applied at the factory, including
different grab iron arrangements, winterization
hatch style, cooling pipe style, headlight
style, and nose details
- Correct fuel tank, end door, and other
CN-specific details
- See-through fans
- Separate underbody air piping and rerailers
(both styles!)
- Metal Macdonald-Cartier Knuckle Couplers
mounted at correct height
- Operational headlight and user-applied
operational ditch lights
- Operational class lights and backup light
(DCC)
- DC-only version is DCC-ready
- Available in both DC/DCC with Sound or
DC-only
- DC-only version is DCC-ready
- Sound-equipped version has real EMD 567C
sounds recorded from a real engine running on
the mainline
- Sound-equipped version has accurate CN
sounds including Canadian horns
- Sound-equipped version comes with remote
control for sound operation in DC
- Several road numbers plus unnumbered
available
- Decals with alternative locomotive numbers
provided
- CN colours are from the CN SIG. VIA colours
are matched to cans of paint from Pointe St.
Charles shops in Montreal - where the real
engines were painted!
- 100% accurate for the Canadian FP9A. This is
not a stand-in.
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