The first General Purpose locomotive, introduced in 1949, the GP7 had the distinctive design and low-cost maintenance features that made EMD"s "Geeps" so popular and helped ensure diesel"s dominance of the railroads. Bachmann"s model includes advanced features such as an NMRA-compliant DCC decoder, LED lighting, and finescale detailing-all now fitted to N scale. Features include: DCC-equipped for speed, direction, and lighting dual-mode NMRA-compliant decoder all-wheel drive can motor super-quiet drive train die-cast chassis finescale handrails blackened metal wheels directional lighting NMRA wheel profile E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers