The Dome Cars That All Other Dome Cars Want To Be!
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2023
- We recently announced our Southern Pacific "3/4" Dome Lounge in HO scale! One of Rapido's most ambitious passenger car projects yet, we're not only pushing the envelope, we're licking it. What does that even mean? Watch and find out!
This is a conditional release, and if you order by the October 16, 2023 early bird deadline, you'll get a tidy 5% discount!
Visit us for more details:
rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/pas...
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I ❤ rapido because you make models other manufacturers won't.
Thanks for the support!
Awesome looking coach.
Not true. They haven’t made Ivor the engine. No one else has made it to my knowledge
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Nice to see you are referencing the SPHTS passenger car books - they're great resources. I still need you guys to make some SP consolidations for me!
They’re such an amazing resource! Jordan has been diligently reading them cover to cover.
@@rapidotrains I think you might have missed the hint there. We absolutely need a Common Standard consolidation. Class C-8 or 9 2-8-0 would be ideal, with very similar steam engines also owned by the UP. Illinois Central was also a Harriman railiroad at the time, so it wouldn't surprise me if they, too, had similar consolidations.
LOL, Picard's blinky eyes! Lovely looking dome cars.
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Your attention to detail is always unmatched!!! If you came out with NYC subway cars many HO modelers would be bankrupt haha. TAKE THE HINT 😂
We’ve been getting a lot of requests for those!
MTH already did those and they are still on the shelves.
Since the Ry in Panama is a KCS subsidiary, CP has 2 of these domes, no...?
That's true now!
Very cool looking rail car, please consider doing it in N Scale
We'll keep it in mind!
This is the same type of dome the Minnesota Zephyr had. I miss that train.
Correct! This was SP 3604. Hopefully it will be restored in the future.
@@rapidotrains I actually hope to recreate the Minnesota Zephyr in HO some day. I’ve ridden on it when I was young. A year or two before it closed.
I will be using these cars for the Hatteras Island National Railroad.
Cool!
Okay, I can't believe NO ONE noticed that you made Patrick Stewart's (Jon Luc Picard) eyes blink!!!!
Oh please bring out any undecorated version and I'll be happy! These cars look sharp in any paint scheme. Keep up doing what Rapido does, bringing out the models that scare the other manufacturers away.
I can’t wait for this! I am about to pre order, but I want to make sure that it fits on 18 in radius track. If some modifications need to be made I can do it.
I’ll have to pick up some of these for my Daylight consist and a personal project
Great!
Cool looking car, but I am building the CN 54 paint scheme train , just got my new locomotives just arrived, now I need cars , in the future I hope cool video
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We'd like to bring back some of our older HO CN passenger cars in the future.
I preordered the four of these I want from my local shop. I hope they get made.
Thanks for the orders! So far the preorders for this project have been very strong and we’re confident it will be a success.
@@rapidotrains awesome! I have two Gen purpose and two daylight on order. Want to use them with the Walthers cars and BLI Gs-4’s for two separate trains.
Those dome cars look great. I’ll take one of each road. 😊
I'm so looking forward for this addition to my collection. Many thanks Rapido and keep up the good work!
I have one of the Daylight scheme ones preordered. The one I preordered, number 3604, ended up in my home state of Minnesota for many years on the Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train.
Neat!
I already have my pre-order in through my local hobby shop.
Thanks for the order!
Beautiful!!
Thank you! 😊
In Zenk we trust! Listen to the man, and build all the bucket items. 😁
I got five on order, and I can't wait to see what else is in the hat.
Bob has been an invaluable resource!
Also, thanks for the orders!
They look fantastic will you make these in N Scale as well?
Not planned for N scale at this time, but anything is possible.
its amazing to be the first on a rapido video, how much are these southern pacific domes going for?
It's always cool to be first! We have pricing and more info on our website: rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/passenger-car/sp-dome-lounge-cars.html
Beautiful model. Pre orders are in.
Excellent, thank you!
Where's that Futurama "Shut up and take my money" GIF when I need it!
Very fitting!
I'm ordering 3 of them.
That's great, thanks for the orders!
I preordered a both a Daylight and General Service car. Can't wait to see the project get a highball and get these great looking models into production!
Great! We're very confident these will get the green light to proceed in October.
Absolutely beautiful. At least I know where my birthday money is going this year.
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Truly an iconic car.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've already preordered 7 of the various SP schemes through Lombard Hobbies! (The reference series of SP books are winners!) I do hope this means that you just might eventually do some wide-windowed Shasta Daylight cars; would pair up nicely with these dome cars. Oh yes, love the video. Nice job! Thanks again! By the way I have my scratch built (not by me) #3603 in my latest video.
I love you, Rapido Trains!
Thanks for the support!
I hope Rapido does something for the Southern Pacific Sunbeam
I've been wanting one of these for years, already preordered one, kind of want the CP version, but I have to watch my budget. Still might give in and preorder that one as well.
Awesome! We’re still early in the development process so you’ve still got lots of time to save up.
I will order these because I love them. But it's N scale that I want them for. I have the train build short these three quarter dome cars. Thank you. Now I wish I was in HO. They should look good on my shelf. Are you doing the SP Econo Baggage cars? Cool Picard's blinking eyes LOL
I'll be super excited- when you do the Panama Canal car... And make an RDC-4!
We'd like to do the Panama car in a future release! An RDC-4 would be great too.
@@rapidotrains old Hallmark Brass RDC-4 cars are too expensive. Help?!
Can't wait for the Panama car either! It's strange; with CPKC, they now have 2 SP Domes: 1 in Canada, and one in Panama. The first 4-Country Rail System, has 2 SP Domes!
Family worked on those cars in Sac shops. I ordered mine..now make them....lol.
We're pretty confident!
Awesome cars
They are!
Very nice
Thanks!
One of every road number released has been pre-ordered with the local hobby shop.
For future SP cars - Shasta Coaches maybe? Head-end equipment (baggage and RPO cars) ... oh heck just do every SP car in those booksa ya got!
Excellent! Shasta coaches would be a good choice.
I crawled into SP 3606 when it was trashed before moving to Rocklen. Rock pile as we call it!
Very cool!
those are cool rail cars
They are!
Make some in "S" scale (Finescale) and you['ll have a customer in me.
If these would work in mid 60s Pennsylvania I'd grab one. And at the price not a bad deal
We aren’t aware of any of these cars being used in service in PA in the 60s, but SP Dome 3601 was used here in Ontario in CN steam excursion service in 1964.
What beautiful bome cars and the insides love it. Will you be doing them in N scale? Thanks for sharing them.
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At the moment these are just planned for HO scale, but anything is possible.
The ultimate Dome Car! I'm definitely gonna pre order this. BTW is the rebuilt Canadian Pacific Version gonna have different interiors?
The current plan is for the CP car to use one of the SP interiors as retooling the interior for that car would be quite costly. Anything is possible though!
Nice trick to blink Picard 🤣🤣
We were wondering if anyone would notice that!
You forgot the PCR livery
That car is on our radar, and we’ll likely consider it for the second release.
got mine on order
Great, thanks!
@@rapidotrains & I ordered another one 😁😁😁😁
Any chance will be a master class article for this car?
Yes we’re hoping to have that posted to our website soon.
Wow. I had ice cream in one of these in St. Petersburg, Florida, back in the 80s. That car is now in Panama. Came across another in Alamosa when I was working for Iowa Pacific. And saw yet another one in storage on the Royal Gorge Railroad that would later find its way to CP. Which one to order?
Neat
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On the website it no long tells the interior configurations for the cars. Is there a specific way to tell? Possibly by the car number?
What was the maximum rated speed of these 3/4 length domes in service? Is the space under the upper dome deck wasted or put to use somehow (air conditioning I'm betting).
OMG! Take...my...money...now!!! :-)
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hello rapidotarins it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
Hey, thanks!
Did CN ever have one of these dome cars 54 scheme
Do you know if the SP ever ran them together with the articulated cars with the full-width diaphragms?
It’s possible this would have happened in their earlier years. While the Dome Lounges didn’t receive full width diaphragms, SP only began removing them from the rest of the fleet around 1955. SP had removed them from most of not all the fleet by 1957.
Would love to see that car in daylight scheme in n scale.
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What book is Jordon reading for reference? Seems to be two copies on his desk.
These are the Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society Passenger Car volumes.
do them in N scale too
Wouldn't that be cool?!
Yowza
Jimminy christmas batman these are nice!
Thanks!
@rapidotrains I think we would all laugh, seeing what wackiness you guys do with these! 😂
Have a wonderful day!
Rapido trains please make the metrolink Hyundai Rotem and cab car :)
I model the SP Coast Division in 1953. These are too new for me, but that's not stopping me. This model is too cool to pass up! Pre-order placed with Overland Hobbies.
Great! Thanks for the order!
Will it be easy to open up without breaking the glass to insert passengers as Janet suggested?
Yes is shouldn't be too difficult. We'll have a better idea once we have first tooling samples.
@@rapidotrains Great!
Does rapido make o scale trains if so do they make passenger train rolling stock
We manufacture HO and N scale trains, but no O scale. Sorry!
Crazy, no New Haven or Via! Way to get out of your comfort zone!! I'll order a couple of those.
Yep, neither of them! We hope to do more SP and possible other road name passenger equipment in the future!
@@rapidotrains I'd love to see more Santa Fe and BN passenger cars in the executive paint scheme... I can't be the only one who would buy those....
can you make and ingalls 4-s please
Absolutely!
@@rapidotrains im a a lost for words right now!!! i thought that you guys would never seen this comment, let alone respond, thank you guys so much. i also love my usra ds boxcar from you guys need to get more.
Hmmm are you guys implying something with those express cars at the end of the video?😉
Just maybe!
The "Engaging" fellow blinking... anyone else notice? John BC, Canada
Good catch! Jeremy loves to add Easter eggs like this to our videos.
What ever happened to the Milwaukee Road Comutter Cars?
Our HO Burlington Route/Metra Budd Gallery cars are in tooling now. We haven't announced a Milwaukee Road version yet, but we'd like to do those in the future as well.
@rapidotrains I hope so. We've been waiting years for somebody to do them. Walthers, the stinkheads have danced all around them as has Kato.
Now even I want to be a dome car!!! I need to get out...
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will thay be dcc ?
The lighting will work on either DC or DCC layouts and will be track powered. The models will use a magnetic wand similar to our other passenger car models to control the lighting.
@@rapidotrains but can I control the lighting with D C C ?
While the lighting will operate on DCC layouts, they are not equipped with a decoder to control the lighting.
@@rapidotrains O darn
so it will be less confusing for me
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I've always wanted a couple of these, Daylight & UP streamliner. Rapido marked these at about $150.00!, each.
These are more expensive that the typical HO passenger car, but compared to the price for brass versions these are a bargain!