Rapido - N Scale - "Panorama Line" Business Passenger Car - 10-5 Sleeper - Burlington Northern (BN) "Big Horn Pass" - Executive Scheme: Grinstein Green/ Cream/ Red Pin Stripe (Sold in a set with 3 other cars Como, Stevens Pass, Jefferson Pass) (SKU 224-504075)
Available On: February 1, 2014
"You've asked for them, so we're making them."
You can now expand your N scale Business Car/OCS fleet with a complete train of Burlington Northern Executive Scheme passenger cars (Duplex Sleeper, two 10-5 Sleepers, Leg-Rest Coach) as well as the Conrail and CSX 10-5 Sleeper "Youngstown," which is the only example of our 10-5 sleeper that still exists in real life. Unfortunately, we aren't including the exercise bike that's currently in one of the roomettes... You'll have to scratchbuild it!
Because we've had trouble getting N scale passenger cars out of the factory lately, we're doing something different with these cars. We've told the factory to make 100 of each alongside our new Cafe-Bar-Lounge cars and 10-5 sleepers and production has already begun. That's it: 100 of each. So you'll need to order now if you don't want to miss out."
A side note from Rapido:
"There is a sad story as to why no more postwar 10-5 sleepers exist. VIA owned the largest fleet and VIA services were decimated in 1990. In a shameful display of political interference in a railway's operations, the highers-up demanded that VIA sell off its conventional passenger car fleet as quickly as possible to generate revenue. Of course, with so many passenger cars on the market, VIA only got scrap value for them.
VIA's 10-5 sleepers had just had a full mechanical, exterior and interior overhaul a few years earlier and were the jewel of the steam-heated sleeper fleet. They were all scrapped.
And what happened? 10 years later, under a new government, VIA needed to buy new sleepers."
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