RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 14 hours ago, Ribird said: I'm surprised no one has posted this (sadly) rejected Canadian Pacific livery here. Of their rejected liveries they've shared throughout their ranges, I hope this one can make it out of the trash can and be produced. 😁 This image was taken from Rapido's socials. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=932687462174277&set=a.127611732681858&type=3 the number is quite appropriate, though given the direction soldiers travelled perhaps Canadian National (as there wasnt a Canadian Atlantic). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted June 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8 5 hours ago, trainsandco said: Whilst a very good looking model, it was however 1:87 HO which made it noticeably smaller when placed along side the usual 1:76 OO models. ???? That is what the post I replied to was all about. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 7 minutes ago, adb968008 said: Blimey, that's small! TT120? 😇 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 (edited) 5 hours ago, trainsandco said: Whilst a very good looking model, it was however 1:87 HO which made it noticeably smaller when placed along side the usual 1:76 OO models. Looks small next to other HO models too.. Edited June 8 by adb968008 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Isherwood Posted June 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8 3 minutes ago, adb968008 said: Looks small next to other HO models too.. Ah - to be sure - it's further away, begorrah! CJI. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 (edited) 1 hour ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Blimey, that's small! TT120? 😇 Dunno but the width between the rails measures correct for 4ft 8 1/2 for the scale it is. 🙂 not all British outline in HO looks small in Europe, both these models are HO 1/87 .. An Atlas BR class 81 and Piko EU07, which English Electric designed from an BR class 83. the s160 might be Big Jim, but its smaller than people think, the Americans must have thought they were making toy trains. When you get close you discover its all tender and no boiler. 2x S160 at Jaworzyna Slaska, Poland. There was another loco here, looked like it had a WD tender body, on an S160 tender chassis, even has UK style tender lamp irons. and this thing looked to have nicked an s160 tender.. Edited June 8 by adb968008 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff RapidoCorbs Posted June 8 Author Rapido staff Share Posted June 8 6 hours ago, adb968008 said: and an excellant one it is too.. i’ll wager it will out pull the Rapido one, and then some, unless they pick up some European practices. 🙂 It'll be interesting to put the OO and HO ones next to each other when the time comes. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff RapidoCorbs Posted June 8 Author Rapido staff Share Posted June 8 6 hours ago, Fredo said: Hi, will the model of 2253 carry electric lamps as preserved? Thanks Fred No, we did consider it but decided on plain lamp irons, partly due to this allowing modellers to fit their own lamps, and partly because it could become another expensive rabbit hole as lamp configurations differ so much. For the same reason Omaha doesn't have the steam generator fitted (although this was not present when we did the photo survey). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 Slightly off topic but having West Country connections and a love for the area , I found these shots of Brixham in the build up to D-Day very interesting. Then and now. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JhornG201 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 On 06/06/2024 at 22:56, RapidoCorbs said: The plan is to have a pocket on the tender and a removable tension lock for the front in the accessory bag. Because of the way the front bogie looks (quite see-through), we didn't want to spoil it with a big pocket or clip-on coupling. So the front coupling mounts to the body. Quick question about the body mounted front coupling/coupling mount in the bag; will it be designed so that it can be used for Kadee and or other similar NEM interface couplings? I don’t use tension locks (I’m a Kadee user) and I dare say others don’t, so just wondering if consideration has been given to that 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 7 hours ago, adb968008 said: ... There was another loco here, looked like it had a WD tender body, on an S160 tender chassis, even has UK style tender lamp irons. ... Tr202-28 is a post-war UNRA development of the S-160 - designed for a larger loading gauge. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 Food for thought, but Big Jim doesnt get out to too many places, but it did for a couple of weekends only, make it to Bury… looks good on a Blue/Grey mk1… 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nova Scotian Posted June 9 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9 12 hours ago, adb968008 said: the number is quite appropriate, though given the direction soldiers travelled perhaps Canadian National (as there wasnt a Canadian Atlantic). Canadian Pacific ran into Saint John NB (and does again now with run-through power agreement with NBM/NBSR) on the east coast. Additionally in Montreal. CP used to have trackage even further east - they acquired the Dominion Atlantic which gave them trackage in Nova Scotia and into the Port of Halifax. They sold those lines in the early 90s though. I've had various family members in the past back and forth between Canada (pre-great depression, great depression, WWII etc) and they typically went through Saint John, Halifax or Montreal, depending on the season (the Saint Laurence Seaway ices), and in WWII they consolidated passenger vs freight ship traffic on east coast. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredo Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Thanks rapidocorbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 9 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9 21 hours ago, adb968008 said: Dunno but the width between the rails measures correct for 4ft 8 1/2 for the scale it is. 🙂 not all British outline in HO looks small in Europe, both these models are HO 1/87 .. An Atlas BR class 81 and Piko EU07, which English Electric designed from an BR class 83. the s160 might be Big Jim, but its smaller than people think, the Americans must have thought they were making toy trains. When you get close you discover its all tender and no boiler. 2x S160 at Jaworzyna Slaska, Poland. There was another loco here, looked like it had a WD tender body, on an S160 tender chassis, even has UK style tender lamp irons. and this thing looked to have nicked an s160 tender.. The bottom photo looks to be a Tr202 aka Liberation Class 'heavy freight' engine and according to Wiki there is one at that site. The original design came from Vulcan Foundry and was reputedly based to some extent on the WD 2-8-0 design. PKP appear to have made a number of mods to those that that finished up with them (although their S160s were fairly original judging by what I saw of them in Poland in 1975). Here's a factory photo of one- https://www.flickr.com/photos/124446949@N06/25191613169 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 No, that's Tr202-28, next to bottom ....... the bottom loco is Tr7-3 and is German built : https://www.flickr.com/photos/camperdown/38865706802 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11 I’ll just leave this here…. I was umming and ahhing about getting an S160 but having seen one close up and in action today I’m going to bike the bullet and get one ordered from my local model shop, didn’t realise how stunning a loco they are in black with the silver numbers 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 On 07/06/2024 at 15:10, Ribird said: I'm surprised no one has posted this (sadly) rejected Canadian Pacific livery here. Of their rejected liveries they've shared throughout their ranges, I hope this one can make it out of the trash can and be produced. 😁 On 08/06/2024 at 05:22, adb968008 said: the number is quite appropriate, though given the direction soldiers travelled perhaps Canadian National (as there wasnt a Canadian Atlantic). Here’s CPKCs current #6644: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5602152 One of a group of SD70ACUs in one-off ‘military’ colourschemes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff Popular Post rapidoandy Posted August 23 Rapido staff Popular Post Share Posted August 23 (edited) I might be a little biased - but I rather like these... Have a great bank holiday weekend everyone! Edited August 23 by rapidoandy 14 1 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JhornG201 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Wow! Those samples are stunning! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatham.mrc Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 3 hours ago, rapidoandy said: I might be a little biased - but I rather like these... Have a great bank holiday weekend everyone! They look amazing 😍 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 23 Are they EPs or 3-D prints? Whichever they do look rather spiffing!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators AY Mod Posted August 23 Administrators Share Posted August 23 4 hours ago, rapidoandy said: but I rather like these.. So do I, I think you're getting the hang of this lark. Stunningly fine. 3 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff rapidoandy Posted August 23 Rapido staff Share Posted August 23 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: Are they EPs or 3-D prints? Whichever they do look rather spiffing!! These are fully working EP samples. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted August 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23 Lushy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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