After placing my order 4 years ago, Rapido has finally delivered the H16-44 units. These units truly were worth the wait, the look good, sound great and run well. I purchased 3 units, two with DCC and sound and one straight DC. I have since added a non-sound chip to that unit and all three look great together. In the mid to late 1950's, these units where used a lot in service over the Norwich and Worcester line, passenger and fright. As time went on, the other 1956 road switchers (GP-9 and RS-11) locomotives would be typically mixed in as well. All lasted into Penn Central and were shipped out to Chicago area until scrapped.
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Three new H16-44 units from Fairbanks Morse on
the Norwich and Worcester. |
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| Engineer's side |
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| Cooling fans and exhaust stacks |
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| Front end of the NH's class unit |
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| Fireman's Side |
Four screws around the fuel tank.
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On both ends of the using the steam tine for passenger
service goes right over the coupler screws. You can
carefully bend it out of the way, but be very careful.
I did end up breaking one in the end. |
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| The fuel tank screw are very long. |
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Here is the mechanism. I replaced the DC board with the 21 pin board recommended by Rapido. This unit will not have sound.
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I do recommend these locomotives. They seem to be a the lower end of cost of the most recent Rapido locomotives, but they are top of the lone in detail and operations.
