Model Railroading > Rapido's 100th newsletter & new products

Hi all,

We recently sent out our 100th newsletter.

If you have some time to kill, you can read it here:

https://conta.cc/2JJKe8r

New HO scale announcements include the FB-2, more FA-2s and more F40s.

Thanks for reading,

Jason

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OK, I just gotta ask - and it proves how much of your newsletter I read:

Why on Earth is your USA mailing address a post-office box in HIGGANUM, Connecticut? (Were all the PO boxes in Killingworth sold out??)

Jason, congrats again on all your progress and success. Your products really do stand out as exceptional, and your company's new foray into US locomotives with the B36-7 is a dream come true for me as a 1990's Conrail modeler. They will join the F40PH's and the C40-8M already working on my Onondaga Cutoff.

Most of all, your writing is a perfect communication of the fun you have at work. I feel like part of the crew each time I read your newsletters (and instruction booklets!).

Keep up the great work! I'm going to save my pennies to ensure I'm able to invest in other products as they come on line.

Thanks!
~Dave
https://onondagacutoff.blogspot.com/

toledopatch Wrote:
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> Why on Earth is your USA mailing address a
> post-office box in HIGGANUM, Connecticut? (Were
> all the PO boxes in Killingworth sold out??)

Likely because one of their US based employees lives there.

When I heard rumor of Jason and rapping I thought it might be because of beer... but not Coors Light. LOL. I'm sure Rapido will do a great job on those wrapped units, and I just wish I had an excuse to run them down here south of the border...

Canadians get VIA units in neat schemes... We get stuck with Amtrak with the "3 sheets in the wind" paint, and now no special trains or PVs...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/18 19:28 by CSX602.

An SP&S FA2. YES!! Glad to see you're doing it.

OK, the US-Canada trade balance is going to take another hit. Cigar band NYC, Penn Central, PC B-unit, maybe more.

PLEASE tell me that one of the PC units will have a plain-Jane white company logo? Those "red worm" units were actually quite rare.

glendale Wrote:
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> toledopatch Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Why on Earth is your USA mailing address a
> > post-office box in HIGGANUM, Connecticut? (Were
> > all the PO boxes in Killingworth sold out??)
>
> Likely because one of their US based employees
> lives there.

I suspected something like that, it's just a fairly small and out-of-the-way place so I wanted to see what humorous explanation Jason could conjure up.

toledopatch Wrote:

> > -----
> > > Why on Earth is your USA mailing address a
> > > post-office box in HIGGANUM, Connecticut?
> (Were
> > > all the PO boxes in Killingworth sold out??)
> >
> > Likely because one of their US based employees
> > lives there.
>
> I suspected something like that, it's just a
> fairly small and out-of-the-way place so I wanted
> to see what humorous explanation Jason could
> conjure up.

When Bill started working for Rapido nine years ago I asked him if he wanted to move to Canada.

He considered it for a while. It was the longest 0.13 seconds of his life.

Bill lives in Higganum. Rapido's US office is his attic.

-Jason

Thanks for the very kind words, Dave. That means a lot.

-Jason


RGDave Wrote:
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> Jason, congrats again on all your progress and
> success. Your products really do stand out as
> exceptional, and your company's new foray into US
> locomotives with the B36-7 is a dream come true
> for me as a 1990's Conrail modeler. They will
> join the F40PH's and the C40-8M already working on
> my Onondaga Cutoff.
>
> Most of all, your writing is a perfect
> communication of the fun you have at work. I feel
> like part of the crew each time I read your
> newsletters (and instruction booklets!).
>
> Keep up the great work! I'm going to save my
> pennies to ensure I'm able to invest in other
> products as they come on line.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Dave
> https://onondagacutoff.blogspot.com/

We'd love to but Penn Central only painted one ex-New York Central FA-2 and one ex-New Haven FB-2 in its corporate black dip. FA-2 PC 1350 was an early repaint not long after the merger and it received the red "P" while FB-2 3393 gained a set of white worms. With this being the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Penn Central we thought it would be rude not to add this pair to our range!

-Rapido Gareth

march_hare Wrote:
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> PLEASE tell me that one of the PC units will have
> a plain-Jane white company logo? Those "red worm"
> units were actually quite rare.

Yet again there is a hint of an RS-10/18 given the message in the photo of the New Haven RS-11. There is no way that they will do the RS-11 without the RS-10/18.

Jason and his boys refused to admit it at Supertrain, but we know they are working on them.

Rick

CatcliffeDemon Wrote:
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> We'd love to but Penn Central only painted one
> ex-New York Central FA-2 and one ex-New Haven FB-2
> in its corporate black dip. FA-2 PC 1350 was an
> early repaint not long after the merger and it
> received the red "P" while FB-2 3393 gained a set
> of white worms. With this being the 50th
> anniversary of the formation of the Penn Central
> we thought it would be rude not to add this pair
> to our range!
>
> -Rapido Gareth
>
> march_hare Wrote:
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> > PLEASE tell me that one of the PC units will
> have
> > a plain-Jane white company logo? Those "red
> worm"
> > units were actually quite rare.

The only white logo FA of any type was FA-1 1330. I just paint out the red p logo and re-decal it....but then such things are allowed on my planet :)

Bob

Bob

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That locomotive has the same eyebrows as me!

Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't thought about the differences between FA-as and FA2s. They were all "FAs" in my brain.