Based on the CN Pullman-Standard prototype, the First Class Buffet-Parlor Car and cars like it entered service over 50 years ago throughout the United States and Canada. Your passengers will be able to sit in rotating, reclining seats - sharing a pleasant conversation or reading the day's paper as the countryside rushes by.

In the mood for a sit-down meal? Well, a full-service dining area is just a few steps away. These cars were used on services that did not necessarily require a full-length diner, and are perfect to provide first class and dining services on your pike-sized passenger train.

The Rapido Trains Inc. model features:

• Improved underbody detail!
• Improved interior to eliminate warping
• "Easy-Peasy" battery-operated interior lighting
• Full interior detail, including individual seats and a fully detailed galley
• Super-detailed 41-BNO-11 or 41-N-11 trucks as appropriate
• Factory-painted and installed metal grab irons and stirrups, including interior corridor handrails
• All-metal Macdonald-Cartier knuckle couplers
• Operating diaphragms with end gates
• Separate marker lamps and steam lines

The following paint schemes will be available in late 2009/early 2010:

• Amtrak - Phase 1
• Canadian National - 1954 Scheme
• Chicago & North Western
• Erie
• Grand Trunk Western
• Great Northern
• Gulf, Mobile & Ohio ***NEW SCHEME***
• Milwaukee - 1950 Scheme
• Missouri Pacific - Jenks Blue Scheme
• New York Central
• Northern Pacific

All of our Super Continental Line passenger cars feature battery-powered interior LED lighting which is turned on and off by our Rapido Lighter, essentially a magnet on a stick. Wave the Lighter over the AC hatch on the roof, and the lights turn on. Wave it again, and the lights turn off. No more coach yards filled with lighted cars draining your power pack, and no more flicker! Each car comes with a Rapido Lighter and two batteries.

Replacement batteries are available separately, as are lighting sets so you can upgrade your existing fleet.