The Super Continental Line brings new meaning to the term "museum quality." Rapido Trains Inc. offers these cars decorated for a variety of popular paint schemes, with partial skirts or fixed steps as appropriate. HO scale.

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 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
In 1980, VIA Rail painted these two coaches as well as FP9 6532 in this grey and yellow scheme, similar to one anticipated for the L.R.C. equipment then shortly due, to see how it would look on conventional equipment. They did not last long in this scheme, and the L.R.C.s were delivered in the grey and blue scheme they wear today.