Dear N Scale Customers;

Rapido is pleased to announce New Comet Commuter Passenger Cars in N Scale.

Introduced by Pullman-Standard as a replacement for aging commuter cars, the soon nicknamed “Comet” cars were first built between 1970 and 1973 for the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad’s services out of New Jersey.

Given their success with the E-L and then New Jersey Transit, the use of the Comet car quickly spread to other commuter agencies. Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority received their first cars in 1978, Metro-North and Connecticut DOT (or ConnDOT) in 1983, Philadelphia’s SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) in 1987, and Montreal’s AMT (Agence métropolitaine de transport) in 1989. In 2008, SEPTA and Frontrunner of Salt Lake City received original E-L/NJT Comet cars to bolster their fleets. Additionally, LA’s Metrolink leased the Frontrunner cars from 2008 to 2010 due to a fleet shortage.

The original “Comet” cars built for the E-L were designed strictly for low platforms, but upgrades to the car design by Pullman-Standard (and later Bombardier) evolved the “Comet” design to support both high- and low-platform boarding, and feature amenities such as on-board washrooms, accessible seating and, after 1990, a wide center door for highplatform boarding.

N Scale Comet Cars features:

• Full underbody and interior details
• Correct Inside-bearing trucks with metal wheelsets
• Accurate and tinted windows
• Fully controllable interior and exterior lighting, including marker lights, headlights and ditch lights
• All-wheel electrical pickup means constant lighting on both DC and DCC layouts
• Suggested minimum radius: 14”

Order Due Date: February 16, 2026

Anticipated Delivery Date: December 2026

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