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F9B LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCT GUIDELINES

Thank you for purchasing this Rapido Trains Inc. F9B locomotive! This F9B has been

designed from the ground up as a London-built General Motors Diesel Division (GMD)

F9B. There are signiﬁcant spotting differences between a GMD F9B and its American

cousins. CN’s F9B ﬂeet was the largest on the planet, and CN modellers know there are

only two portholes per side on CN’s F9B locomotives. CP modellers are familiar with

the unique grills, step skirts and roof details on CP’s F9B ﬂeet. None of these details has

been reproduced in a plastic model before this one.

Our sound-equipped F9B locomotive is powered by an ESU Loksound Select decoder

and can be operated on DC or DCC layouts. It is fully compatible with our FP9A loco-

motives (containing SoundTraxx Tsunami decoders) and will MU with them smoothly.

Please read “Operation – DCC/DC with Sound” to familiarize yourself with the ESU

decoder in your F9B as there are some programming differences between the ESU and

the SoundTraxx decoders.

Our DC-only model includes a 21-pin DCC plug so you can attach the DCC decoder of

your choice, such as Train Control Systems decoder #EU621 or an ESU 21-pin #54615

LokPilot. If you wish to use a 9-pin decoder, you can purchase a TCS #T-1-21 conversion

harness which converts the 21-pin plug to a 9-pin plug.

We stand by our products 100%. If you ever have a problem with your F9B, or with any

other Rapido product, please call us or send us an email. Our e-mail address is trains@

rapidotrains.com. Our toll-free number is 1 (855) LRC-6917. If you are outside of North

America, you can call +1 (905) 474-3314. We will do our best to help resolve your

problems to the best of our ability. If you send us an email and you don’t hear from us

within three business days, please call as we may not have received your email or per-

haps our email response to you got swallowed by an ethereal beam locator.

Rapido Trains Inc.

500 Alden Road, Unit 16

Markham, Ontario

L3R 5H5

Canada

Tel. (905) 474-3314 - Toll Free 1-855-LRC-6917

Fax. (905) 474-3325

Email. [email protected]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

So What’s Changed from the FP9A? ...................................................................4

Minimum Radius Requirements ............................................................................4

Changing The Couplers .....................................................................................4

Missing or Damaged Parts .................................................................................4

Checking and Adjusting Your Locomotive .............................................................5

Wheelsets and Steam Connectors ........................................................................6

Diaphragms and Maybe a Ladder .......................................................................6

Removing the Shell ............................................................................................7

Operation – DC (Silent) .....................................................................................7

Operation – DCC/DC with Sound ......................................................................8

• So What’s Different? ..............................................................................8

• Locomotive Address ...............................................................................8

• “Firing Up” Your F9B .............................................................................8

• Function Keys ........................................................................................9

• Prototypical Operation ...........................................................................9

• Sound Volume Settings ...........................................................................9

• Sound Volume Settings Chart ................................................................10

• Factory Reset ......................................................................................11

• Awesome Slow Speed Thingy ...............................................................11

• More Information ................................................................................11

• Limited Lifetime Warranty .....................................................................12

• Acknowledgements ..............................................................................12

F9B DCC FUNCTION QUICK REFERENCE

F0 END LIGHT (ON/OFF)

F1 BELL (ON/OFF)

F2 AIR HORN

F3 STRAIGHT TO 8 (ON/OFF)

F4 DYNAMIC BRAKES (CN USERS LEAVE THIS ALONE)

F8 SOUND ON/OFF/MUTE

F11 BRAKES

F12 DOPPLER HORN (LONG-LONG-SHORT-LONG)

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SO WHAT’S CHANGED FROM THE FP9A?

Your F9B has an ESU Loksound Select decoder. There are some slight programming

differences between the Loksound and the Soundtraxx Tsunami installed in your Rapido

FP9A. They are highlighted in the “Operation – DCC/DC with Sound” section of this

manual.

What hasn’t changed is the performance of your locomotive. Dan spent two full days in

the ofﬁce running an FP9A equipped with the Soundtraxx decoder along with the F9B

equipped with the ESU decoder back and forth on our test track in order to develop a

custom speed table that will allow your new F9B to run seamlessly with your Rapido

FP9A: the locomotives included with The Canadian as well as all CNR, CN and VIA

models from the ﬁrst production round of 2012-13. This is great news if you want to MU

your new F9B with one of these earlier models. If you have no intention of doing this,

please don’t tell Dan….

MINIMUM RADIUS REQUIREMENTS

Being a reasonably small, 4-axle unit, the F9B will have no problems navigating 18”

radius curves and #4 crossovers. If you want to run passenger trains on anything tighter,

try streetcar modelling.

Even though our model has sprung buffer plates, the F9B very much prefers broader

curves, especially if coupled to another unit or to full-length passenger cars. For tight-

radius curves, we include an extra long-shank coupler in the box to prevent interference

with the rear buffer.

CHANGING THE COUPLERS

Changing the couplers is very straightforward. Place a white table cloth on your work-

bench or kitchen table. Place a foam cradle (available from Micro-Mark, product

#80784) or a thick-piled hand towel (not a tea towel!) folded over a couple of times on

top of the table cloth and lay the F9B on its roof. Alternatively, you can place it upside

down in the foam insert inside the wonderful multi-purpose box that the loco came in.

Use a small Phillips screwdriver to unscrew the coupler box and slide it out without de-

stroying the surrounding details, especially the yokes surrounding the couplers. Swear

loudly when the yoke snaps off. Snap the lid off, replace the coupler, and snap the lid

back on. Slide the coupler box back in and replace the screw. Pick up the F9B and look

around the white table cloth for all the little roof details that may have fallen off. Glue

them back on with white glue. Hey – don’t say we didn’t warn you! And on that note…

MISSING OR DAMAGED PARTS

With over 300 individual parts, the F9B is a stupidly complex model. To prevent inevi-

table frustration, we recommend checking your locomotive as soon as possible to ensure

that everything is where it should be. We try to catch all potential issues at the factory,

but with literally thousands of locomotives in a production run it is possible that the odd

problem may slip past our quality control inspectors. They do karaoke at night and can

get tired during the day. Please cut them some slack. At least they know all the words to

the newest Lady Gaga song. (We’re not kidding – Jason did a duet of “Bad Romance”

with Ms. Li at a hotel karaoke lounge in China last year.)

A bigger issue is damage in transit. 99% of all locomotives are perfect when they

leave our warehouse. But our gentle courier and postal carriers like to use our models

to practise for their interdepartmental Aussie Rules Football championship, so between

our warehouse and your front door chances are this F9B has been used in a 200-yard

kick on goal and spiked into the ﬂoor during a victory dance by Gord in Receiving. No

packaging is designed to survive such punishment.

If bits come loose in transit, they are easily reattached with white glue, such as Weld-

bond. We prefer Weldbond over CA because it works just as well for most layout sce-

narios and is very easy to clean up. There is no risk of damaging the paint job – just

wipe it up with a bit of warm water on a paper towel. If the courier companies have

been really cruel and there are a lot of parts loose, please contact us. You can send the

locomotive 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.

If any parts are missing or broken, please call or email us. We’ll happily send you free

replacements. We aim for 100% customer satisfaction, unless you are one of those guys

who calls us because a Separator Blowdown Funnel is slightly crooked and you don’t

want to move it back into place with your ﬁnger. In that case, please go away.

CHECKING AND ADJUSTING YOUR LOCOMOTIVE

We try and make sure that every locomotive is perfectly up to spec before it leaves the

factory, but if the karaoke was particularly good the night before your model was as-

sembled there may be a couple of bugs. Doing a quick pre-service check will solve most

operational glitches.

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Standards Gauge. Should any of the wheelsets be out of gauge, than remove the

affected wheelset from the truck by prying off the bottom lid of the gearbox with

a small ﬂat screwdriver. The wheelset can be regauged by grabbing each wheel

and twisting. Reverse the steps to replace the wheelset, and ensure the gearbox

cover is snapped into place before placing on the track.

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the track. Of particular note are the air hoses and steam pipes at the rear end of

the unit, both coupler trip pins and sump tank underneath the fuel tank. A small

drop of CA-type superglue will sufﬁciently hold any loose parts securely. Under

the body who cares if you spill a bit?

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thing, check to ensure that the brake cylinders and their associated piping do not

interfere with any of the underframe components.

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may be binding – check for ﬂash or plastic shards that may cause any interfer-

ence.

WHEELSETS AND STEAM CONNECTORS

The Rapido F9B is equipped with solid nickel silver wheels. They cost us a mint, so we

hope you enjoy them. Plated wheels have a tendency to ﬂake off after heavy use, and

we want you to use your F9B for a long, long time. These wheelsets will not ﬂake off.

The downside is they can’t be easily chemically blackened, so you will probably want to

tone them down with a bit of grimy black paint. Just remember only to paint the wheel

faces and to clean the wheels immediately after painting.

Like our passenger cars, the steam connectors are not installed on the model. These are

V-shaped parts that you can install at each end of the locomotive. For detailed instruc-

tions on how to do this, please call or visit our web site.

DIAPHRAGMS & MAYBE A LADDER

The F9B buffers are sprung. That means the F9B can be close-coupled to a Rapido FP9A,

FPA-4, FPB-4, or F9B and it will have no trouble on medium-radius curves.

The diaphragm is not installed for two reasons. Firstly, CN and CP both removed the

diaphragms of the F9B locomotives soon after delivery. They were an unnecessary main-

tenance headache and the railways did not see the need to keep their crews protected

from the elements seeing as they regularly had to get out to line switches, couple/un-

couple cars, clean signal heads, and sign register books anyway. Secondly, in order to

have functional diaphragms we would have had to make large cuts into the rear of the

unit, which would have looked extremely silly once you took the diaphragms off. If you

are displaying your F9B locomotive or you have 96” radius curves, you can attach the

diaphragms with white glue or CA.

Your F9B locomotive may have a ladder or two in the little plastic bag. These were

installed on some F9B locomotives and tended to migrate. Refer to prototype photos for

placement.

REMOVING THE SHELL

Installing working strobe lights or a DCC decoder involves removing the shell. This is a

real production. Here’s how to do it. If you damage, destroy or immolate your engine

in the process, it is unfortunately not covered under warranty; once you open it up, you

are on your own. That being said, if you break some bits and we have them available

we will of course be happy to send you replacements.

Place a white table cloth on your workbench or kitchen table. Place a foam cradle

(available from Micro-Mark, product #80784) or a thick-piled hand towel (not a tea

towel!) folded over a couple of times on top of the table cloth and lay the F9B on its

roof. Alternatively, you can place it upside down in the foam insert inside the wonderful

multi-purpose box that the loco came in.

Remove both coupler boxes and slide them out from your locomotive. Then remove the

four shell retention screws – they are located just inside of the trucks.

Once the screws are out, just start wiggling the shell off. It will eventually pop off.

If any parts go ﬂying in this process, pick the parts up off of the ﬂoor/table/chair/your

lap/your ear/bookshelf and place them on the white tablecloth we conveniently told

you to lay out. The parts are easily reinstalled with just a couple of small dabs of CA-type

superglue to the top of the part.

OPERATION – DC (SILENT)

If your F9B locomotive is not equipped with a sound decoder, it should function like most

other HO scale locomotives. The gear ratio is 14:1 so it may MU (multiple unit) with your

existing ﬂeet. Put it on the track. Give it some juice. Watch it go.

Both DC and Dummy F9B locos are equipped with track-powered LED backup lights on

both ends. To turn one end’s backup light on, wave the Rapido Lighter magnetic wand

over the F9B roof near that end of the unit. Once the Lighter gets close to the hidden reed

switch, the light will turn on. Waving the wand over the switch will turn it off.

Our DC model includes a 21-pin DCC plug so you can attach the DCC decoder of your

choice, such as Train Control Systems decoder #EU621 or an ESU 21-pin #54615

LokPilot. If you wish to use a 9-pin decoder, you can purchase a TCS #T-1-21 conver-

sion harness which converts the 21-pin plug to a 9-pin plug. We chose the 21-pin plug

because we are switching over to 21-pins for all of our locomotives. The 9-pin plug does

not allow for all of the lighting functions to be wired for plug-and-play, whereas the 21-

pin plug does. Of course, with only a backup light on each end that feature is pretty

much irrelevant to the F9B. But if you close your eyes and imagine that there are lots of

lights and things, then you will see how valuable a 21-pin decoder plug is and that it’s

not just a royal pain in the keister.

OPERATION – DCC/DC WITH SOUND

We have made every effort to provide a sound decoder that is as accurate in sounds as

our model is accurate in looks. The decoders ﬁtted to our F9B models have been pro-

duced exclusively for Rapido by ESU using their LokSound technology and incorporating

our unique sound recordings from FP9A #6505, complete with its original, unmodiﬁed

567C prime mover. Don’t worry – the F9B and the FP9A sound the same.

SO WHAT’S DIFFERENT?

There are some key differences between the F9B (ESU) and FP9A (SoundTraxx) decod-

ers. Here’s a quick summary:

• Factory Reset: On your F9B, you perform a factory reset by entering a value

of “8” into CV 8.

• Sound startup: On the FP9A, the sound started up just as you started to move

the engine. On the F9B, you need to hit F8 to turn on the sound. See below for

more info on F8.

• Volume: The whole method of changing the volume of speciﬁc sounds is differ-

ent on the F9B. If you use the old method, your decoder will explode. Please read

that section of the manual (below) as it’s too long to summarize here.

LOCOMOTIVE ADDRESS

Your Rapido F9B comes from the factory with a decoder address of 3. We suggest if

you are using DCC control that you ﬁrst test that the locomotive responds on address 3.

Once you have veriﬁed that the locomotive is responding you should assign it a unique

address (normally 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 the main. Be aware however that if you do program

the locomotive on the main and you have any other locomotives assigned to address

3 (the normal default address for new locomotives) than ALL of them will likely also be

changed to your new address!

Note that some DCC systems get a little wonky when programming sound-equipped

locomotives on the programming track because of the high current draw. If weird stuff

happens, try programming on the main.

“FIRING UP” YOUR F9B

When you ﬁrst place your Rapido F9B on the track or when you power up your layout

the F9B will be silent. Don’t panic! This is normal and saves wear and tear on the ear-

drums when you have a large ﬂeet! To activate the sounds simply enter the locomotive

address into your system then press F8. It will go through its start-up sequence and come

to life. If you press F8 when the loco is moving, it skips the startup.

FUNCTION KEYS

Your Rapido F9B includes several standard functions and a few functions unique to our

model. If you are operating it with a sound-equipped FP9A, you basically need to use

the lighting and F3 and nothing else. Here is a list of all the function assignments:

F0: End Light (on/off)

F1: Bell (on/off)

F2: Air Horn

F3: Straight to 8 – See information below.

F4: Dynamic Brakes (CN didn’t have them so CN guys leave this alone!)

F8: Sound On/Off/Mute

F11: Brakes

F12: Doppler Horn – Activating F12 as you near a grade crossing will start a long-

long-short-long grade crossing horn sequence complete with a Doppler effect.

This is not fancy programming in the decoder. It’s a recording of the real thing.

PROTOTYPICAL OPERATION

F3 – STRAIGHT TO 8: This unique feature simulates the prototypical operation of the

F9B locomotive. CN, CP and VIA engineers did not slowly go through the notches if

leaving a station on a clear signal. They would put the locomotive straight from notch

2 to notch 8. Similarly, when approaching a station (especially in commuter service),

engineers would go right back down to idle and coast to a stop. This sounds very differ-

ent from a typical freight engine slowly notching up to 8 and back down again. When

F3 is selected, applying any throttle to the locomotive will cause the locomotive sound

to ramp up quickly to “Run 8” (full power). If you decelerate, it will go right back down

to idle. If you push F3 when the locomotive is at notch 8 and then you decelerate, it will

notch down normally. Note that this function controls the sound only and not the motor

speed. Motor speed is still controlled using the throttle settings as normal.

SOUND VOLUME SETTINGS

The sound volumes on your decoder have been pre-set at the factory to levels that we

found comfortable on our test tracks. This is considerably quieter than what you are

probably used to when ﬁrst turning on a sound-equipped locomotive, because we feel

that most locomotive models are set to ABSURDLY LOUD out of the box.

Sound levels are very much a matter of personal taste (especially if you are going deaf

like we are), and what sounds great in one layout environment may sound too loud or

too soft in another. Fortunately all sound levels can be easily adjusted to best suit your

own requirements and we recommend that you experiment with different settings if you

don’t care for the default levels.

To set the volume levels go into the program mode on your DCC system (refer to your

system’s manual for instructions on how to do this as each system is slightly different);

enter the desired CV number; then enter the desired levels. Note that this can be done

either on a programming track or on the main (ops mode) if your DCC system supports

programming on the main.

We strongly recommend that you keep notes on which settings you have changed and

which values were used. If you ever need to do a reset on the decoder (see “Factory

Reset” below) then having good notes will allow you to easily re-enter any changes that

you might want to keep.

VERY IMPORTANT: Before you change any of the volume control CVs,

please make sure that CV 32 is set to 1. CV 32 is used as an index selec-

tion register and if you don’t set it ﬁrst then we are not responsible for

your resulting rage and the fact that you will probably throw the loco-

motive against the wall in frustration.

F9B 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

DYNAMIC BRAKE VOLUME 299 86 0-128

AIR COMPRESSOR VOLUME 307 77 0-128

RADIATOR FAN VOLUME 315 128 0-128

DETECTOR SOUND VOLUME 323 128 0-128

CROSSING COMM SOUND VOLUME 331 128 0-128

RAILCLANK VOLUME 339 128 0-128

BRAKE SET / BRAKE RELEASE 347 40 0-128

SANDING VALVE VOLUME 355 128 0-128

SHORT AIR LET OFF VOLUME 363 128 0-128

SHORT AIRHORN VOLUME 371 128 0-128

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