Yet Another New Model By Rapido!

[highhood63]

Stuff is just getting cooler all the time. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

 

Don't you know you're not supposed to speak optimisically about the future of model railroading on this forum. This is the place for lamenting the demise of the hobby.

 

Heh....you know this hobby has been dying since Santa bought me my first Lionel set back in 75 (those were the Dark days when Kenner owned Lionel...so it was kinda easy to believe :P ) Today I'm seeing Engines being produced now that would have required some serious Kitbashing just a few years ago, new techniques for building a layout that saves time, cost less and produces superior results...and don't even get me started on the incredible things DCC and micro-electrics has given us.

Demise? Hardly.

 

[Charlie]

I'll have to get one just for the inards to put in a Coach Yard ATSF/Pullman Std baggage car that was converted to a steam generator car.

Charlie

[twhite]

That car is so COOL-looking, that I think I'll get one to put behind one of my Yellowstones just so it can haul a passenger train or two.  

Tom

Doesn't the Yellowstone already put out enough steam?

Steemtrayn--

God, YES, LOL!  But that car is so neat, I'll use any excuse I can come up with to get one.

Tom

[wgnrr]

You did good on this one, Rapido!

I have been waiting a while for one of these in HO.

The only paint schemes I want are undec and VIA, which I will request through your web site. (Do I even have to request VIA???)

Phil (the US modeler who LOVES Canadian railroad equipment) 

[andrechapelon]

Stuff is just getting cooler all the time. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

 

Don't you know you're not supposed to speak optimisically about the future of model railroading on this forum. This is the place for lamenting the demise of the hobby.

Now there's someone who REALLY understands what this forum is all about!!!!!! Besides, all this expensive RTR crap is just making it too easy for the great unwashed with more money than skill to call themselves model railroaders.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Son, I say, son, you just can't be a model railroader unless you build everything from scratch, regularly trash MR for its editorial policies, cry in your beer about the imminent demise of the hobby and claim that you are the world's greatest living authority on the history of the hobby.

[/Foghorn Leghorn]

Andre .

[jecorbett]

Stuff is just getting cooler all the time. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

 

Don't you know you're not supposed to speak optimisically about the future of model railroading on this forum. This is the place for lamenting the demise of the hobby.

[Rapido]

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Regarding the Steam Gennies, please send me an email through our web site with your paint scheme requests. I'm in the process of finalizing the first batch of paint schemes now.

Steam Generator Units or Steam Heater Cars (or any one of a dozen different names) are very interesting pieces of equipment, often overlooked by railfans, preservationists and modellers alike. Many railroads used them, and many had their own unique designs for their SGUs. Some were rebuilt from tenders, B units, box cars, etc. I am genuinely concerned that none will be preserved in the long term. Several Steam Gennies are owned by museums and tourist railways, but they are regarded as nothing more than tools to provide steam for preserved passenger cars, and will be scrapped when the passenger cars are converted to HEP. These are an important part of history, and they deserve to be preserved, restored and interpreted.

CN was the only railroad to standardize its steam genny design over a large fleet, so it was the logical choice for the prototype for our car. Er.... the fact that I model VIA and CN had nothing to do with it. Really. ;-)

Best regards,

Jason

[Mr. SP]

Rapido Trains passenger cars are excellent. Canadian modelers have an excellent source of prototypically correct cars. The lighting system is great too.

As for the Western Pacific passenger F units. All had steam generators but as profits disappeared and the units got older it was more cost effective to use boiler cars instead of repairing the steam generators. The boiler cars came from the GN second hand.

[Anonymous]

I'd love to see a WP CZ steam generator car. WP used F units without steam generators found in E units, and had steam generator cars built. It would look great on a CZ consist.

NP ordered steam generators in most of their passenger F and FP diesel units but carried two large tanks of water in the baggage car behind the units to have enough steam for long trips on cold northern Rockies nights.

[Fergmiester]

Oh, rats.  Now I'm going to develop Large Radius Turn Envy again.  Happens every time somebody comes out with new long passenger equipment.

The only wide curves I'm putting on are around my waistline.

Here Here! 

I'm still trying to figure out where to make the cuts with my chain saw?

Saying that I do look forward to the baggage car now due out. 

Fergie 

[steemtrayn]

That car is so COOL-looking, that I think I'll get one to put behind one of my Yellowstones just so it can haul a passenger train or two.  

Tom

Doesn't the Yellowstone already put out enough steam?

[Flashwave]

I have'nt heard anything about the OB cars.I could use about 6 on my NYC Putnam Division

The pic in the MRR, the "secret" with New Haven on the side, that's the Osgood Bradley. I can dig up the full picture they're using.

Radius envy: The gen car actually appears to be shorter than an F7B. SO if you have short coaches, you could run it with short cars. Oscar/Piker anyone?

[twhite]

That car is so COOL-looking, that I think I'll get one to put behind one of my Yellowstones just so it can haul a passenger train or two.  

Here's to you, Rapido--just keep puttin' them out!

Tom

[dinwitty]

mega cool, model makers turning out some cool stuff. Most passenger diesels had steam generators just for that purpose, but for areas that couldnt, this car is used.

Good for U Rapido! 

[andrechapelon]

Stuff is just getting cooler all the time. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

But.....but....but.... the hobby's dying. Ready-to-run is killing craftsmanship. The sainted founding fathers of the hobby are turning over in their graves. Greedy manufacturers are pricing things out of sight and bankrupting the average hobbyist**.

Andre

P.S. sorry 'bout that. It was a pre-emptive mini-strike to blunt the doom and gloom of the nay sayers.

** I thought it was high oil prices and the credit crisis, BWDIK?

[Dallas Model Works]

Stuff is just getting cooler all the time. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

 

[mikebonellisr]

I have'nt heard anything about the OB cars.I could use about 6 on my NYC Putnam Division

[MisterBeasley]

Oh, rats.  Now I'm going to develop Large Radius Turn Envy again.  Happens every time somebody comes out with new long passenger equipment.

The only wide curves I'm putting on are around my waistline.

[Guilford Guy]

http://www.rapidotrains.com/telegraph8.html

The Steam Generator cars look awesome, and the ad claims, this different smoke fluid, cleans your rails, and does not leave an oily residue.

Well Done!

I can't wait for the Osgood Bradley Coaches Either!