Model Railroading > Silent Rapido Announcement

RAPIDO KEEPS FINDING WAYS TO TAKE MY MONEY.

They "silently" announced an Americanized run of the SW1200s in HO Scale at Trainfest. You'll have to see the page and listen as Rapido puts out more details on these guys. Sounds like they should be off the charts just like everything else they release! I for one am excited to hear more and order myself a Great Northern model.

Rapido EMD SW1200's

Jack Pappas
Spokane, WA

And, I got an e-mail today about a special run of Lehigh Valley Alco RS-11's to benefit the Anthracite Railroad Historical Society, so I just had to have a #7643!

TJY



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/18 17:07 by icancmp193.

Tempo, Schempo....... the SW1200's and RS11's are going to sell like tacos in Matamoros

But you can use the Tempo cars to model the later version of the Rio Grande Ski Train.
Which is where I think they will get the most sales if they ever offer them.

PHall Wrote:
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> But you can use the Tempo cars to model the later
> version of the Rio Grande Ski Train.
> Which is where I think they will get the most
> sales if they ever offer them.

They've done the F40's and now they're doing the cars. Seems pretty likely, unless there's a reason they can't do more F40's.

They have done the VIA versions of the F40PHs and one Amtrak version in the Phase I carbody (not counting the Cabbages).  The Ski Train units were phase II and III carbodies if I recall correctly.  I would hearlily buy a few of the phase II carbondy ones in Phase II and Phase III paint, not to mention the Ski-Train cars - they're just neat looking.

Not to steal his thunder, but when Jason made the original online live announcement of the Tempo cars he answered a question on the ski train cars, more or less saying that the ski train cars would be done in the future when later appropriate F40 units were done...

Nice to see more switchers coming.  Walthers Proto will be also releasing their HO SW1200 in February of next year - but only 4 roadnames to start, with GN, New Haven, Illinois Terminal, and CN (non RS versions).  It will be interesting to see how the Proto stacks up against the detail of the Rapido.

https://www.walthers.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=SW1200

Rich

PasadenaSub Wrote:
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> Nice to see more switchers coming.  Walthers
> Proto will be also releasing their HO SW1200 in
> February of next year - but only 4 roadnames to
> start, with GN, New Haven, Illinois Terminal, and
> CN (non RS versions).  It will be interesting to
> see how the Proto stacks up against the detail of
> the Rapido.
>
> https://www.walthers.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=S
> W1200
>
> Rich

The New Haven and Illinois Terminal versions are sold out, as well as undecorated.
I don't know about the GN and CN.

TJY



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/18 09:38 by icancmp193.