PEEPs, BEEPS, BEEFS...???

Ready Made Toys Products. Check out their website.

 

Sunrise

They were a series of engines made by Ready Made Toys they were small sized engines that were shorter than scale by quite a bit. They were toy like. Had a good following because they were very cheap and fun

Go to www.readymadetoys.com to see their product line. RMT is a forum supporter and has a banner to the right on the page between Korber Models and Australia's O Gauge Train Specialist The O Gauge Guy. Walter Matuch is the owner of RMT and often posts on this forum.

 

I have purchased many of his products and feel they are a good value especially when at radically reduced prices. A search of previous posts will help you get the background on these fun toys.

 

Paul Goodness

Got it - thanks. I knew they came from RMT but thought that maybe the BEEP, etc., actually stood for something.

 

Dan

       
       


I think... don't hold me to this, but BEEP might be a play on the "Geep" slang for the GP style locomotives that they're modeled after. BEEF may be changing the last letter to represent the F units that those are modeled after. As for PEEP... Pullman Heavyweight cars...

I dunno, just throwing that out there. Hard to know unless Walter tosses his two bits into this thread.

BEEP is a play on words for the RMT mini-GP.

 

However, the term was originally coined by Railroad Model Craftsman in their June 1976 issue for a conversion by the Santa Fe of a Baldwin VO1000 switcher frame, cab and EMD GP7 guts, hood and trucks:

 

 

Rusty

hello guys and gals..........

 

What no Geeps ?

 

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Tiffany