rapidotrains Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hi all, I am working furiously on the latest Rapido UK newsletter (number TWO!), and it will be sent out to subscribers in the next day or so. It is fabulously expensive to subscribe to our newsletters. To do so, please click here: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001Wa58ZNPFtyXPDswqX_KtXQ== That way you can get the news before all the lazy people who haven't bothered subscribing. Thanks and regards, Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multiple identity account Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Great - we will see if the subscriber thing works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 4, 2015 Easy. Can't work out why you need my bank and credit card details and passwords though, but hey ho, it's a free service! Also I live in England, doesn't seem to be on the list. Mike. Also my Norton protection has just flagged up an Astromenda warning for my transaction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidotrains Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Easy. Can't work out why you need my bank and credit card details and passwords though, but hey ho, it's a free service! Also I live in England, doesn't seem to be on the list. We also need your National Insurance Number, your mother's maiden name, and the passwords to all of your banking web sites to "improve security." Thanks for that, and for the very recent contribution of all of your retirement savings to our North American TurboTrain new build project. -Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 As one of your 3 current subscribers, I got your letter today many thanks.Only I am in France, so 2 in the UK (maybe), and 1 in France.Hmmm so one prototype scanned ready to go that has operated all over the place and done in chunky plastic before, another to be scanned at the NRM soon (before we get to 2020).... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Cue the next "guess what Rapido will make next" frenzy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf27 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Well, from all those hints it's not something I am currently working on. Hopefully. Cheers Shane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko22 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Got the news letter , Jason while you may have a good rant in you with the difference between UK and Canadian Rail investment you are forgetting one factor: US BRITS LIKE TO MOAN ABOUT ALMOST ANYTHING!! If we aren't moaning with are very ill or manically depressed! As for hints for the OO model I am stumped but then again I am more interested in what N gauge surprises appear! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I bet its a DMU. they are aready working on a underfloor drive for the budd railcar, and they love coaches, so whats not to like about a self powered coach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted March 6, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2015 156 is my guess at what is ready to go. No idea yet what is to be scanned. I will have to check what is available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 The curious thing is, the letter says this has been done in chunky plastic in RTR before so this time they have competition on the same product BUT at the same time it ran "everywhere". Apart from wagons, Mk1s and certain main diesel classes which have all been redone to modern RTR standards by now, I cannot think of anything done previously which actually ran everywhere. I can think of items which ran on all régions, albeit to certain areas of those régions (Mk2s for example) but not everywhere. Most DMU and EMU classes are very area specific. You might find some classes on multiple régions but they would have been very area specific (there were no DMUs running in the South east for example although there were DEMUs). If we could have a clearly meaning of "everywhere".......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf27 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Class 25. Hornby made a chunky plastic one and the Bachmann version is now outdated and inaccurate. Seen everywhere. Like Rats. Cheers Shane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenwall Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 One suspects everywhere means ER LMR SR ScR WR and if it ran on one bit of it then that is box ticked. To a canadian they are all only a stones throw across!! It's got to have pipes to detail remember, so Mk3's are out, Mk2's might do it. DMU's ? Well the Hastings units got everywhere on specials but AFAIK have not been done RTR. Some other DMU types got around at the end when anything that would run got thrown in. A bubble car? and then there's a wild card of Royal train vehicles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 One suspects everywhere means ER LMR SR ScR WR and if it ran on one bit of it then that is box ticked. To a canadian they are all only a stones throw across!! It's got to have pipes to detail remember, so Mk3's are out, Mk2's might do it. DMU's ? Well the Hastings units got everywhere on specials but AFAIK have not been done RTR. Some other DMU types got around at the end when anything that would run got thrown in. A bubble car? and then there's a wild card of Royal train vehicles? Jason crawling around under the Royal Train stock........I can't quite see that being approved and we can't afford to have him thrown in the Tower! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil S Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 A Class 142 to replace the Hornby model, would probably be 'too close' to associated Reatrack's Class 143 and 144..... But if so.. Would Rapido reproduce the running characteristic of the real thing? or make a model that ran smoothly? Springing the body freely over the axles might give the right effect .. they could then move on to Sweden and reproduce the wallowing of the 'Date Box' Diesel Y6 Railcars from their past. But continuing the High Speed theme, and the CANADIAN INTEREST .... how about a new Eurostar Set, complete with all the other carriages .... and now entering Canadian ownership. But if they knew months ago to plan and scan the model, that would suggest dangerous inside trading .... the new Canadian Boss of the BoE is getting themselves investigated already! Any more conspiracy theories to add into the pot?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesthecat Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Class 156? Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Rossington Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 well that picture looks distinctly like Chester station. Hippo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidotrains Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 One suspects everywhere means ER LMR SR ScR WR and if it ran on one bit of it then that is box ticked. To a canadian they are all only a stones throw across!! It's got to have pipes to detail remember, so Mk3's are out, Mk2's might do it. DMU's ? Well the Hastings units got everywhere on specials but AFAIK have not been done RTR. Some other DMU types got around at the end when anything that would run got thrown in. A bubble car? and then there's a wild card of Royal train vehicles? To a Canadian the entire UK is within commuting distance... -Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Chunky plastic RTR model done before, a photo showing quite a long unit, ran from all the way down south to the north (but all the way east to west)..... Lots of nice under frame details.... Hmmm, this is drifting towards a class 117 DMU me feels (though a 142 had a brief spell in Cornwall). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko22 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Rob, I think you may be right it does look like Chester, Ok I am thinking all over the country is that the UK as a whole or Maybe Wales as well the 175s can be seen all over Wales! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Rob, I think you may be right it does look like Chester, Ok I am thinking all over the country is that the UK as a whole or Maybe Wales as well the 175s can be seen all over Wales! I thought 175 or 185 looking at the profile (but without knowing the station but suspecting LNWR) but neither have been done before Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I think the biggest challenge for the APT-E model is not an S curve with 2 second radias curves, but it will be going through two pairs of set track points switching from one line to another. Theoretically set track points are second radius, in practice they are a bit tighter than that. Has the APT been tested on those? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridwatcher Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I think the ;next thing' photo is, as Jason hints, a Red Herring....but the shape is 175. Watch with interest!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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