HO Scale Canadian National FP9A

**NEW** True North Locomotives

Our First HO scale True North release... Canadian National's FP9

FP9A LOCOMOTIVE
MSRP • $199.95* - DC
MSRP • $329.95* - DC/DCC/sound
AVAILABLE 2011 - RESERVE NOW!

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.

CN FP9A Classifications

CN classified their FP9A units with the prefix "GPA", which was derived from:

G - General Motors of London (GMD) - builder
P - Passenger service
A - A unit

FP9A's were 1750 horsepower units, so were given the deignation "17" for 1700 (approx) horspower.

There were five deliveries of FP9A (or FP9 or FP-9A - CN used all three names), hence the classifications "a" through "e."

Thus, GPA-17a was the a "General Motors of London, Passenger service, A unit, 1750 horsepower, first delivery group". We'll call the FP9A's... !

Nose MU Cover Notes

The GPA-17a units were delivered in 1954. These were not delivered with an MU cover, and the CN shops (likely Spadina and Transcona) added their own c.1957. These are just small rectangles, and can be seen as either:

- raised above a hole
- flush inside the hole
- missing altogether - i.e. there is just a hole

We are tooling the raised square version for our GPA-17a models.

In addition, we are doing a total of four different noses on teh various models:

- GPA-17a/b with home-made MU cover and no air trap on the other side of the headlight
- GPA-17a/b with home-made MU cover and home-made air trap
- GPA-17c-e with factory MU and no air trap
- GPA-17c-e with factory MU and home-made air trap


Engineering Drawings (Not for the weak of heart!)

FP9 Details OK, we could ramble on here for hours, but if a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then just click on the thumb for our version of "War and Peace"....



Sample Photos

Rather just look at model shots? OK, here you are!

 

 


New Motor and Gears Development Update

We've made progress on the development of a new motor, gear and drive train design that will improve slow speed performance for ALL of our future powered models. To see a video of the new drive train in action Click Here.

Prototype photo courtesy John Riddell.