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Rapido HO scale lightweight passenger cars
I think that these are some of the best model lightweigh cars ever produced, and hope to be using them on my freelanced railroad.
I give them 5 Stars too My GN sleeper is beautiful and will not be alone for long.
Great looking models, superb detailing. Hope to use a couple on my EL soon…
CNR rules and so do these cars!!!
I saw these units in person today. The detail is incredible, I can’t wait to get these units on my layout behind my scratchbuilt model of CN6400.
it is about time we have more canadian prototypes,now we heed more steam locomotives
They look great and will compete with anything out there for the money. The only problem is,not enough of them yet.
Although based on CN prototypes, the Rapido sleeper appears to be a good match for the Pullman Standard 4-8-4 “Pass” sleepers built for the 1947 Empire Builder (GN 1170-1177, CB&Q 1178-1179, plus GN 1180 and SP&S 700 built in 1950). These cars were the through Chicago-Portland sleepers for both the 1947 Empire Builder and the 1951-1970 Western Star. Thus they appeared (rather than the 16-4 sleepers) in the SP&S connecting Spokane-Portland trains (trains 1&2 for the Empire Builder, SP&S trains 3&4 for the Western Star).
I mentioned these cars when commenting on the Walthers cars several weeks ago. These are the best, most detailed out-of-the-box passengers cars produced in plastic, bar none, and at roughly the same price as the Walthers cars. Only the Branchline heavyweight kits rival these cars for detailing and finish (again, in plastic, in this price range). I would love to see them do some heavyweights!
My Wife and I hope to have them as soon as possible. Nice aquire for our CN-modelrailroad (to build)…
Just saw them at a train show yesterday, and was impressed…what a great car.can’t wait to find them in great northern.
Please make these cars soon for the Delaware & Hudson.
Great cars. Very well detailed. A must have for CN modellers.
Great idea! This fill a gap in the passenger equipment of this era that I hope to acquire in the very near future. Well done!
The SP cars are great! Just what we need!
The detail is incredible & the cars are very free-rolling. I was surprised at first by the lighting system, but it works well and is, frankly, a lot simpler (on a DCC layout) than fooling around wiring up power from the track, installing a decoder, etc… It seems almost embarassingly “low-tech”, but - hey! - it works good… I think it would be great if Rapido offered also just the “lighting” elements of these cars. I’d instal this system in my entire Rivarossi car fleet in a minute if it were an option! I’d even rip out the track-powered lighting I’ve installed with great effort in all too few of them, without hesitation!
These are wonderful cars. Based on the rapidotrains website (www.rapidotrains.com/details1.html), the lighting kits will be available separately for $15.95 starting in March 2007.
We purchased 2 each of these in VIA and am very pleased to see the grab-irons and small details are installed already unlike the Walthers Ready to Run coaches. Kudos Rapido and i can’t wait for the rest of the set in VIA.
I have been very happy with all the Rapido cars I had purchased until today and I would like to know what color runs in the window band on these BN Executive series I had always thought it to be a cream/tan color. I recieved my 6 cars with some sort of a greenish / yellowish color that isn’t even close.