rapidotrains Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Latest photo from one of the Rapido factories... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted December 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2014 Is that running in Ottawa? It has a National Capital Commission number. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Will it come with etched "USS Enterprise" plates? and perhaps "boldly go where no man train has gone before".... erm ... given its shape maybe too much information there.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 It's a train, Jim, but not as we know it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Hope they're HO Scale you can run it with these wonderful coaches... shame they dont seem to make them anymore perhaps Gostrude may have some on Ebay, he could have a new saying from this review also "heirloom quality"... http://trekmovie.com/2009/07/04/the-collective-reivew-of-star-trek-electric-train-collection/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagboi Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Lemon Curry? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2014 Latest photo from one of the Rapido factories... IMG_20141220_082633.jpg I hope you are going to post a video of the sound decoder in action!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Has the body got plenty of cross-bracing inside? If not it might warp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted December 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2014 Very Enterprising! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 What is the 8 for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The stylised "Rapido" script looks awfully similar to that used by Virgin..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Well, it is Virgin on the ridiculous! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The stylised "Rapido" script looks awfully similar to that used by Virgin..... Virgin Galactic to offer budget space flight while Spaceship 2 is rebuilt? Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaxjones Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I hope the doors open with the appropriate sound. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 In the words of Shakespeare.... Is this an LRC body shell I see before me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidotrains Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Virgin Galactic to offer budget space flight while Spaceship 2 is rebuilt? Simon Definitely budget - this thing's ion drive won't even make warp 1. -Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 What is the 8 for? Shuttle craft number 8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim H Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 New rolling stock for the Belfast-Dublin line, clearly.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The Federation used LRCs? Who knew? Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Latest photo from one of the Rapido factories... The marketing tag line for the LRCs: "Go boldly or go home." Or perhaps more aptly "Boldly go home with a Rapido LRC"? I hope you are going to post a video of the sound decoder in action!!! This should do the trick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsp3970 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Hope the big E has plenty of ventilation for when they start one of those 251's up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 They should be named. After rivers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted December 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2014 It won’t go round radius one curves, you can’ne change the laws of physics Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcolmt Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 How do I buy one? My partner is wild about Spock. I've been using a trip to Vulcan for years to counter comments about a serious train addiction. Malcolm T Calgary, Canada Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I think these are the new, clip-on body shells for the up-rated, Alco-Haulik powered, extended-length shuttles in the GalileoSuperMax updated series Star Trek: The Original Series The shuttlecraft GalileoArt Director Matt Jefferies originally envisioned a sleek, streamlined shuttle based upon his background as a pilot. The curved shape proved too expensive to build for the first episodes.[3] AMT offered to build a full-sized shuttlecraft at no cost in exchange for rights to market a model kit. The final design, by Gene Winfield,[4] is 24 feet (7.2 m) long and weighs one ton, has a plywood hull, and was built in two months by a team of 12 people. A separate set was used for interior scenes as the mockup was too small for filming.[5] This boxlike, utilitarian shape became the prototype of shuttles throughout Star Trek. The shuttlecraft, named for Galileo Galilei, was first featured in "The Galileo Seven". Its registration number is NCC-1701/7 and carries a crew of seven. When Galileo and her crew go missing in the episode a second shuttlecraft called Columbus is launched. Once the shuttlecraft had been established, footage of them appeared in episodes including "The Menagerie", "The Doomsday Machine", "Journey to Babel", "Metamorphosis", "The Immunity Syndrome", and "The Way to Eden". In the latter episode, the full-size mockup sported the name Galileo II, acknowledging that the original shuttlecraft was lost during "The Galileo Seven". During "The Omega Glory", the USS Exeter, a starship of the same class as the Enterprise, is said to carry four shuttlecraft. The Galileo shuttlecraft (a full-size theatrical prop) was not dismantled, but passed through the possession of several owners. The 1966 mockup was sold at auction for $70,150 in summer 2012. The new owners spent nine months restoring the Galileo in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, the purchaser donated the mockup to NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Museum in Houston.[5] The shuttlecraft Galileo was formally unveiled at Space Center Houston on July 31, 2013.[6] In 2014, the prop was used again in a film production and appeared in a scene of the fan-made Star Trek episode Fairest of Them All, according to the episode end credits.[7] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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