Dear HO Scale Modelers: Here is some inportant news for Passenger cars fans

The Ready-to-Run Super Continental Line...
INCREDIBLY DETAILED. INCREDIBLY CANADIAN.
COMPARE THE TWO PHOTOS BELOW TO SEE WHAT WE MEAN.

Prototype photo from the collection of John Riddell.

First test model shown. Paint, rivets, final roof details, and step details have not yet been added.

THE MOST DETAILED PASSENGER CARS EVER PRODUCED. PERIOD.
HO SCALE FROM ONLY $59.95* EACH (CANADIAN MSRP)
ARRIVING IN STORES SUMMER 2006

DETAILS LIKE THESE USED TO BE FOUND ONLY
ON SCRATCHBUILT MASTERPIECES.

OUR PASSENGER CAR FEATURES:

• HO scale ready-to-run, injection-molded plastic models
• Fully decorated in many different paint schemes
• Detailed underbody with separate steam, air and electrical lines
• Factory-applied grab irons and uncoupling levers
• Fully detailed interior cast in appropriate colors
• Battery-powered LED lighting operated by magnetic wand (included)
• Separate, removable marker lamps and end gates
• McHenry Couplers and operating diaphragms with support bars
• 18" minimum radius (24" or greater recommended)
• Multiple car names/numbers available for each railroad and type of car

Despite the amazing level of detail, the toilets don't actually flush
(sorry we dropped the ball on that one)

In the early 1950s, Canadian National Railways placed one of the largest passenger car orders in railroad history. These cars were used on such famous trains as the Super Continental, the Ocean, the Panorama and our namesake, the Rapido. They continued on mainline and branchlilne service with CN and VIA until the late 1990s, and in fact some are still running on VIA trains in northern Manitoba and one has been resurrected as VIA's exclusive Glen Fraser lounge car!

Today, CN's cars can be found on tourist railways all over North America and even on Canadian Pacific passenger trains. They are without doubt the most successful smoothside passenger cars ever built and over the next few years Rapido Trains Inc. will be producing museum-quality models of many of them.

Our first two cars are the HO scale CANADIAN CAR AND FOUNDRY 1954 COACH and the PULLMAN E-SERIES DUPLEX SLEEPER. These were the most popular coaches and sleepers in CN and VIA's fleets. More cars will follow later in 2006 and 2007.

 

AMTRAK (Phase 1)	BALTIMORE AND OHIO
CANADIAN NATIONAL (1954 scheme)	CN RAIL (1961 scheme)
CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN	GREAT NORTHERN
ILLINOIS CENTRAL	MILWAUKEE ROAD
NEW YORK CENTRAL	NORTHERN PACIFIC
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD	ROYAL CANADIAN PACIFIC
SOUTHERN PACIFIC	UNION PACIFIC
VIA RAIL CANADA	UNDECORATED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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