Summary of GMD-1
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FranÇais au verso gmd-1.
Page 2: Contact Us!
2 gmd-1 locomotive product guidelines thank you for purchasing this model of canada’s most unique locomotive, the gmd-1. This is the first freight locomotive produced by rapido and the first locomotive produced by the mlw factory. (funny that mlw’s first model is a gmdd prototype.... Don’t tell any ...
Page 3: Table of Contents
3 table of contents nomenclature ...................................................................................................4 break-in ............................................................................................................4 prototype practices ..............................
Page 4: Nomenclature
4 nomenclature you’ll notice that we only refer to the gmd-1 as the gmd-1, with a hyphen between the d and the 1. Some early sources such as extra 2200 south used the incorrect “gmd1” and that incorrect name has become popular, but after a lot of digging we have deter- mined that the hyphen should a...
Page 5: How to Hold Your Gmd-1
5 unit behind it. Fortunately, we manufacture those too! Our model will pull far more than the prototype. Please ignore that and order more. How to hold your gmd-1 the gmd-1 has numerous very delicate parts. If you want to back date it to be the qual- ity of a model produced in 1978, then rip all th...
Page 6: Sand Boxes
6 we had to make some decisions that will make the model inaccurate for the earliest classes in the very early days, so all units have spark arrestors installed and all have frame-mounted handrails. Note that all 1000-series gmd-1s from the second order on- ward were delivered with frame-mounted han...
Page 7: Missing Or Damaged Parts
7 sembled there may be a couple of bugs. Doing a quick pre-service check will solve most operational glitches. • check to see that all wheelsets are correctly in gauge using an nmra rp-2 standards gauge. Should any of the wheelsets be out of gauge, than remove the affected wheelset from the truck by...
Page 8: Operation – Dc (Silent)
8 part is beamed away. I know it would have been more useful for us to beam the part back onto your workbench but someone’s been fiddling with our transporters and we haven’t been able to fix them. Sorry. • tothatend,pleasemakeeveryefforttoensurenothingfliesaway.Workona clean, white surface. In fact...
Page 9: Locomotive Address
9 we recommend the following 21-pin decoders: • esu#54615-lokpilotv4.0dccwith21mtc • tcs#eu621-bemfsix-functiondecoder 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 esu-de...
Page 10: Turn On The Sound
10 address 3. Once you have verified that the locomotive is responding you should assign it a unique address (we suggest the road number of the locomotive) before going any further. This can be done either on your programming track (recommended) or on the main if your system supports programming on ...
Page 11: Functions: More Information
11 functions: more information f3 “straight to 8” this unique feature simulates the prototypical operation of the gmd-1 locomotive. If you are switching out an industry and you are having trouble pulling those heavy grain cars out of the siding, you will want to put the gmd-1 consist straight into 8...
Page 12: Horns
12 f10 class lights if you have our fp9a locomotive, you might be wondering why the gmd-1 only has white class lights. Green class lights mean a second section is following. Red class lights mean the engine is pushing a passenger train. While we would love to see the gmd-1 hauling the super continen...
Page 13: Sound Volume Settings
13 cv48-4 nathan p5a cv48-5 nathan k3l (esu recording) cv48-6 leslie rs3l cv48-7 leslie s3l cv48-8 leslie s5t cv48-9 nathan m3 cv48-10 hancock air whistle (you can blame dan for this….) cv48-11 leslie rs3k cv48-12 leslie supertfon cv48-13 nathan m3h cv48-14 nathan k5h cv48-15 another leslie 3 chime ...
Page 14: Factory Reset
14 gmd-1 sound volume settings function cv default range your value master volume 63 40 0-192 diesel volume 259 128 0-128 horn volume 275 128 0-128 bell volume 283 99 0-128 coupler sound volume 291 128 0-128 odd volume 299 128 0-128 odd volume #2 307 128 0-128 radiator fan volume 315 90 0-128 odd vo...
Page 15: Awesome Slow Speed Thingy
15 awesome slow speed thingy there is an awesome trick that you can use to get even better slow speed running and smoother operation. It’s called the automatic motor tuning feature. This feature will automatically adjust the back-emf in most cases and give you phenomenal slow-speed performance. In o...
Page 16: Acknowledgements
16 of course, damage caused by trips to the basement floor, running your locomotive around 18” radius curves at ridiculously high speeds, throwing it to your friend across the room, picking it up with wet paint on your hands, or any other damage caused by you that we haven’t been able to cover here ...