{"id":461,"date":"2021-01-10T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2021-01-10T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T07:32:21","slug":"kato-test-track-speed-matching-batch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/kato-test-track-speed-matching-batch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kato Test Track \u2014 Speed Matching Batch #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On to Batch #2 made up of three Atlas &#8216;Gold Series&#8217; EMD GP-30&#8217;s, all from the same production run. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#2893 Atlas 40 003 773 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road Number 3001<\/li>\n<li>#2894 Atlas 40 003 788 EMD GP-30 Phase 2, Road Number 3027<\/li>\n<li>#2895 Atlas 40 003 774 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road Number 3002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Atlas &#8216;Gold Series&#8217; locomotives are at the top of the Atlas N Scale range and are all fitted with ESU sound decoders and AccuMate Chinese made couplers.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum speed for a EMD GP-30 is\u00a071\u201383\u00a0<b>mph<\/b>\u00a0(114\u2013134 km\/h). Quite a bit higher than the SW7 top speed of 65 mph.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above I have 4 older Atlas GP-30&#8217;s. Two are GP-30 Phase 1&#8217;s (manufactured in 2006 according to Train Control Systems [TCS]) and two are GP-30 Phase 2&#8217;s. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#994 Atlas 42816 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road Number 3006 with TCS ASD4 decoder installed by Gwydir in December 2015<\/li>\n<li>#995 Atlas 42817 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road Number 3008. TCS ASD4 decoder in stock ready to be installed.<\/li>\n<li>#1390 Atlas 47546 EMD GP-30 Phase 2, Road Number 3016.\u00a0TCS ASD4 decoder in stock ready to be installed.<\/li>\n<li>#1391 Atlas 47547 EMD GP-30 Phase 2, Road Number 3019. A TCS ASD4 decoder needs to be ordered from Fifer Hobbies (8 ASD4&#8217;s in total required) who have the lowest price of\u00a0$36.49.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifer Hobbies can be found at http:\/\/fiferhobbysu770.corecommerce.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&amp;p=13668.<\/p>\n<p>Let the speed matching begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On to Batch #2 made up of three Atlas &#8216;Gold Series&#8217; EMD GP-30&#8217;s, all from the same production run. They are: #2893 Atlas 40 003 773 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road Number 3001 #2894 Atlas 40 003 788 EMD GP-30 Phase 2, Road Number 3027 #2895 Atlas 40 003 774 EMD GP-30 Phase 1, Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}