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CPR Empress 2816 Rapido model

Michael Salfi All Messages By This Member #67730 If you purchased the oil burning Empress 2816, this model represents 2816 as it has been restored and is operational today. In this case you would require a consist as it appears today. As you want prototypical heavyweights this means either scratch building heavyweight cars or signing up for the Rapido cars as they are today. As another has suggested, you can sign up for a current consist of heavyweight cars from Rapido. Had you purchased a coal burning CP 4-6-4, you would have still had problems putting a heavyweight consist together but there are options if you could find some BGR heavyweight resin kits. BGR is out of business though you could try RR shows as some may be available if you go that route. Mike
Tim Kelley All Messages By This Member #67731 Good day, I see that Athearns has some heavyweight passenger cars coming up someday. Not sure how accurate or prototypically correct they would be. Here's a link to the Athearns cars............. I also have a buddy that has 3 Branchline CP coach kits. Again I don't know how accurate they are. Thanks, Tim On Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 03:58:04 PM CST, Michael Salfi via groups.io <steamheat@...> wrote: If you purchased the oil burning Empress 2816, this model represents 2816 as it has been restored and is operational today. In this case you would require a consist as it appears today. As you want prototypical heavyweights this means either scratch building heavyweight cars or signing up for the Rapido cars as they are today. As another has suggested, you can sign up for a current consist of heavyweight cars from Rapido. Had you purchased a coal burning CP 4-6-4, you would have still had problems putting a heavyweight consist together but there are options if you could find some BGR heavyweight resin kits. BGR is out of business though you could try RR shows as some may be available if you go that route. Mike
Andrew Jeanes All Messages By This Member #67732 None of the four cars being offered by Rapido as part of the Canadian Pacific Executive Fleet is a heavyweight car. The 101 "Dominion" and 102 "E.S. Smith" are both ex-CN/VIA CC&F 1954 streamlined coaches. The 110 "H.B. Bowen" is an ex-CN/VIA E-series Pullman-Standard streamlined duplex sleeper. The Dome-Lounge 3605 "Selkirk" is an ex-Amtrak/Southern Pacific car, originally built by Pullman-Standard in 1937 and completely rebuilt by SP in 1954-55. ? The Athearn cars look like they could be reasonable stand-ins for CP heavyweight equipment. They aren't prototypically accurate for CP cars, but this may not matter much for a display layout. ? David Bedard's Bedarail 3D printing operation may soon be coming out with accurate HO scale versions of various CP heavyweight and streamlined passenger cars. He has been doing impressive work in N scale and is apparently getting a new 3D printer big enough to do full-length HO scale passenger cars. ? ? Regards, Andrew Jeanes Kingston, ON
Ken All Messages By This Member #67733 开云体育 I use the Rivarossi ones. Add a little weight and passengers and away you go. For anyone in UK I have some on Ebay at the moment,?

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