Ready Made Trains (Aristocraft)

The seven or so RMT Beeps I have work just fine.

Al W.

Well, if you are looking at semi-scale rolling stock, I can't speak highly enough of them. I purchased 3 of their woodside reefers and was very pleased. Crisp paint, good trucks and wheels, and at $20 they were priced well too. Will definitely be back for more when other road names arrive. 

Hoping for a Nickel Plate Road BANG Diesel sometime in the future (Hint hint to Walter if he reads this). I saw a different roadname at a train show and was very impressed. May need to track down a BUDDY RDC car too!

The Beep uses the body tooling from an old Williams product with upgraded chassis/motor. I have three and enjoy them. The Bang has its origins in the old Marx switcher, later upgraded by K-Line and now further upgraded by RMT. This is by far my favorite small switcher - great runner. The Beef is the stubby F-unit that is, to the best of my knowledge, original to RMT. The freight cars are similar to Lionel's classic 6464 series.

I have only purchased non motorized rolling stock and was very pleased with the quality and quick shipping. I would not hesitate to purchase from them again.

Many of the products are made from Kline (which I think were originally Kusan) tooling.  The body of my K-line Budd cars and RMT Buddies are identical.

That is where the similarity stops.  the quality of the trucks, couplers, electronics, and lighting in the RMT product far surpasses the Kline product.  I now have two Buddies, a Beep, and a few freight cars. As a bonus the cabooses (cabeese?) as well as some of the hoppers came with an O gauge figure.

The motors are very strong and start up about as low speed as any other tradition toy train product.

I would definitely recommend RMT products for a conventional operator.

(The only thing I have from RMT that has broken is one of the clips that holds the missile on a flat car with missile load.  I don't think the missile was really meant to come off but I didn't know that.  I bought a whole bunch when they went on sale.  the idea is to eventually repaint them into ACME rockets and add some looney tunes characters!)

Good stuff!  I have several Beeps, Beefs, Buddys, Bangs, Peeps, and a variety of rolling stock.  No problems whatsoever.  They are not scale items (as compared to any prototype), but they are very cool items and quite affordable.

I have some of their motorized stuff, BEEPS, RDC cars, and even a Conrail BANG converted to TMCC.  I also have a ton of the ore cars.  Nice thing about the ore cars is they're scale sized, and they match up with the MTH and K-Line as far as scale perfectly.  If you catch the sales and get them at a good price, you can't beat the value.  I paid $10/ea for the ore cars, diecast trucks, really nice graphics, decent detailing, what's not to like at that price?

I took one of the speeders and extended the rear cavity and equipped it with TMCC, as well as marker lights, backup light, etc.  Finally it got a paint job, fun little runner.

I thought I had a problem with my 1st engine but it honestly turned out to be my then used transformer{CW80}, once I started using my postwar ZW, they were fine.

I have two Beeps, 3 Beefs{2 power/1 sound dummy-horn only},1 budd, 4 ore cars, and 4 shorty passenger cars. I like them all.

My only issue is on one of the passenger cars- the baggage car, the doors don't fully open so my son can't really load them like he wants...not a huge issue with that lil car...otherwise we like them.

My A-B-A AT&SF BEEF's are SUPER! And the Beep's I have run well. They did aquire some K-Line molds. They also have cut many of their own. Good folks.

I also have a bunch of cars and the quality and service is great. Definitely will order more stuff when needed.

Ron

I have a set of  RMT - LIRR Passenger Cars.  Excellent Quality.

The RMT Budd cars came from K-Line, which came from 1956-59 Marx 2124. The majority of the accessories are similar, originally Marx, then K-Line. The rolling stock is a mixture of Kusan & Marx, but the majority being of Kusan heritage.

When the Pacific steamer comes out, it will loosely trace it's lineage back to Marx also.

Steve

I love BEEPS: I have 20+ BEEPS, several with their original body and many, many, that have been bashed or rebodied in various projects I have done.  They are simple, tough, durable little locos.  Those made in the last couple of years have the tether to connect multiple units together so they share their electrical pickups - this avoids stalling over switches, a weak point of BEEPS when moving slow. 

BEEFS are basically BEEP innards with a scale (crosssection) but much shortened (length) EMD F body with a lot more detail in fittings (opening doors, etc).  I have an A-B-B-A set that is all powered (I replaced the dummy A unit's chassis with a powered one).  They're nice, but frankly not as fun as BEEPS.

I have three BANGS - okay, nothing special.I think the body and chassis goes back to an ld Marx product.  Good for young kids to play with.

All good.  The semiscale freight cars are great.  I have a mixed freight that never leaves the layout.

The tank cars and ore cars are close to scale - I run them with scale locos.

I enjoy the cabeese with the marker light lanterns - very nice details.

Excellent locomotives:  I have beefs, beeps, 1 bang, and 1 RDC.  The RDC lighting effects are really superb.  

RMT has excellent customer service.