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May 26, 2009 - HO Scale
Rapido Announces Three New HO Scale "Super Continental" Passenger Cars
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Dear Rapido Customer, Here's a quick edition of the Telegraph to let you know about some new products and what's shipping. Bill is busy redesigning our web site so the first issue of Rapido Product News is still about a month away. In this issue of the HO Scale Telegraph:
New HO Scale Super Continental Line Post-War 6-6-4 Sleeper! In Volume 16 of the Rapido Telegraph, I mentioned that we were working on a Buffet-Parlor and a Club Galley First Class Coach. I didn't mention that we had a third new car in development. Our new Post-War 6-6-4 Sleeper is based on Pullman plan 4183A delivered to the CNR in 1954 and named in the Green series. Each car was named after a Canadian landmark or town beginning with "Green." This car is almost identical to the popular Pine series cars (plan 4183) built for Louisville & Nashville, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis around the same time. The main differences are the electrical system and a bathroom window. For most people, it's "close enough." We've had help from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Railway Preservation Society, and the CN Lines Special Interest Group with this project. You can visit a real Pine Sleeper at the Historic Rail Park and Train Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This group of dedicated railfans and historians is doing a beautiful job restoring Towering Pine, and have also been of great help to us. Unfortunately, there are no CN Green sleepers in preservation. Because we don't want to burst your bank account with too many cars coming out at once, we're releasing the C&EI and NC&StL cars in the first run, and we'll do the L&N car names in the second run.
This is the first time that a post-war 6-6-4 sleeper has ever been produced in plastic. Our model features:
Click on each car type for details! As we're almost finished development of our three new car styles, it's time to open the order desk. The order deadline for these is September 1st, 2009. Delivery will be winter 2010. Please contact your local dealer to order these cars. We don't sell them direct. We'll have samples for you to see at the National Train Show, July 10-12 in Hartford.
Detailed information on these new cars will follow tomorrow! New Motor and Gears Development Update Even though it's only been a couple of weeks since our last Telegraph, we've already made progress on the development of a new motor, gear and drive train design that will improve slow speed performance for all of our future powered models. We will be offering a complete set of motor, gears and drive train for the TurboTrain, at cost, for those of you who wish to upgrade your Turbo to the new system. I will give you full information about that in a future issue of the Telegraph later this year. Click on the image below to watch a really pretentious video showing the progress of our new motor and gear designs.
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