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[CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher

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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:35:50 +0000
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Thread-topic: New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher

My CB&Q 9103 44 ton switcher arrived yesterday, and today I pulled out BB#6 Extended Version to compare the model with the pictures. Rapido did a splendid job or reproducing the switcher in HO scale. I ordered mine with DCC and sound, and I haven’t programmed it yet.

 

There are two rerailers and two poling poles in a Ziploc bag.  Checked all of the photos in BB#6, and I found rerailers on 9105 (p. 52, 52, 54, and 55), on 9106 (p. 57), and 9107 (p. 59).

 

Poling was banned in the 1960s, but I didn’t see any poles on any of the Q 44 ton switchers, so poling must have been discontinued much earlier on the Q.

 

The switchers in series 9103-9107 had a long and interesting history, and I we owe Hol Wagner a debt of gratitude for his articles in both the original and expanded edition of BB#6.

 

Nelson Moyer

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