I’m just having the idea of purchasing some Rapido cars, but I have to admit that I’m not well informed about american passenger cars (both real and H0 scale). So, would you mind helping me about?
1-Leaving out of consideration any particular railroad, generally speaking when did Rapido cars’ prototype lightweight coaches and sleepers enter in service?
2-When did first Rapido Cafe-Bar-Lounge prototype enter in service? Late Fifties? Early Sixties?
3-The same question regarding the new Baggage car and the new leg rest coach… When did they appear on the rails?
Thanks a lot and MERRY (PAST) CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
I think the 50’s is for the Cafe Bar. Not all trains needed a full diner car.
The B&O converted many troop sleepers and older heavyweights to modernize after world war two. Only to see the entire fall victim to the Airports and Highways.
The new Baggage cars has not arrived yet but I have no reason not to doubt the painstaking detail that goes into these things.
Im just glad it is taking alot of time to get them produced one by one in China, I need time to save my pennies for these things.
The CPR lightweight coaches entered service in 1949. Many were used by VIA Rail well into the 1990s. BC Rail had a fair number until 2003. Rocky Mountaineer still uses them.
Rapido isn’t making them, (sterike 1!) But The SP daylight was using lightweight coaches of comperable make I believe in the 30s, definately in the 40s.