Not O Scale But An Entertaining Locomotive Preview From The Owner Of Rapido Trains

That was entertaining Thankyou  

Thank you for posting that!  I'll have to get a look at it later as well, when I'm home and can hear it better.

His videos are really fun - one of them is also available via Lionel's Tracks site (which is addictive!) about the VIA car he built in his basement!

Also, some of his other videos are fun, and sometimes the credits carry things like saying it was directed by Orson Welles and such.

I have no modern Rapido, but have plenty of the original N Rapido, when it was sold in the US under the Revell banner.

Very impressive.  It's almost enough to make me want to get back into N scale.

Almost.

There is absolutely no connection between the Arnold Rapido of ye olden days and Rapido Trains.

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I knew that there wasn't a connection at all.  I just like that a similar name is in N Scale again.

Very entertaining video.

Impressive locomotive.  I still cannot believe what they can do with N-Scale now.  

wow!!!

Beautifully done models. I recall seeing the "ten-hundred" GMDs struggling with wheel slip, and this model has incorporated the sound! That series had A1A trucks so as to be light-footed on the ancient rails of un-improved prairie branch-lines. The wheel slip was the trade-off.

A little history: http://tinyurl.com/m5y7w8b

These beauties in HO have been tempting me every time I visit George's Trains, home of Rapido.  Also, their PRR smooth sided FOM cars look like museum pieces.   Absolutely gorgeous and from what I can tell accurate renditions.

http://www.rapidotrains.com/budd1.html

Bruce

GMD-1s have also found their way to the Castros' Cuba, where I believe at least some of them are still running.

Why do the couplers stick out so far?  It just about ruins the model for me.