Someone at the West Island Modular Club in Dorval, Quebec owns a lot of Rapido's Turbo Train cars--30 of them, in fact, all in one train, roaring around the layout.
There's a link to the video on my blog at http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.ca/2013/02/30-car-rapido-turbo-train-wow.html
John Longhurst, Winnipeg
Hey!
I watched it once last night and forwarded it to a friend and he said its gone!
Looks like the Youtube author removed the video!!! It was pretty neat to see even though 30 cars were never run in reality. I believe CN coupled two nine car trainsets together and ran them as an experiment once.
I wonder why he pulled the plug on the video?
Think about the physics of stopping a train of that size, running at those speeds, using 70s braking technology. Disc brake or not; the heat, the friction. Oh, the humanity!
I found another link to the video; try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPRh9RjPw4
John
Thanks, John...
That works.
With the price I've seen for those and the number of cars on that train, they must have a lot of confidence in their trackwork to be running that train that fast.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
Nice to see a passenger train going faster than .00045 miles per hour on a layout, you know micro-macro mega slow motion.