Into classic Canadian passenger trains? This Rapido Trains stainless-steel Budd coach, in VIA Rail (current, teal) colors, nails the look of the postwar transcontinental streamliners.
What sets this model apart is Rapido's signature prototype fidelity. These fluted stainless-steel cars were built by the Budd Company for Canadian Pacific, which ordered 173 cars for its transcontinental train “The Canadian,” launched on April 24, 1955. Steam-heated when new, they passed to VIA Rail in 1978. Many were rebuilt with Head-End Power (HEP) from the 1990s; this model captures the HEP version. Rapido faithfully reproduces the fluting, 41-NDO-11 trucks, D22 brake rigging and multi-color interior. Track-powered interior lighting, sprung diaphragms and metal Macdonald-Cartier knuckle couplers: it is all here.
Features
- Budd coach with HEP, HO scale
- VIA Rail (current, teal) livery
- Fluted stainless-steel carbody with realistic finish
- Super-detailed 41-NDO-11 trucks with end frames
- Accurate D22 brake equipment and piping
- HEP detail: Head-End Power receptacles and cables
- Track-powered interior lighting with capacitor
- Detailed, painted interior
- Fully detailed underframe
- Free-rolling trucks with electrical pick-up
- Body-mounted knuckle couplers
- Crisp, accurate printing and lettering
- Ready-to-run (RTR) model
- HO scale
- Recommended minimum radius: 24"
- Made by Rapido Trains
Into classic Canadian passenger trains? This Rapido Trains stainless-steel Budd coach, in VIA Rail (current, teal) colors, nails the look of the postwar transcontinental streamliners.
What sets this model apart is Rapido's signature prototype fidelity. These fluted stainless-steel cars were built by the Budd Company for Canadian Pacific, which ordered 173 cars for its transcontinental train “The Canadian,” launched on April 24, 1955. Steam-heated when new, they passed to VIA Rail in 1978. Many were rebuilt with Head-End Power (HEP) from the 1990s; this model captures the HEP version. Rapido faithfully reproduces the fluting, 41-NDO-11 trucks, D22 brake rigging and multi-color interior. Track-powered interior lighting, sprung diaphragms and metal Macdonald-Cartier knuckle couplers: it is all here.
Features
- Budd coach with HEP, HO scale
- VIA Rail (current, teal) livery
- Fluted stainless-steel carbody with realistic finish
- Super-detailed 41-NDO-11 trucks with end frames
- Accurate D22 brake equipment and piping
- HEP detail: Head-End Power receptacles and cables
- Track-powered interior lighting with capacitor
- Detailed, painted interior
- Fully detailed underframe
- Free-rolling trucks with electrical pick-up
- Body-mounted knuckle couplers
- Crisp, accurate printing and lettering
- Ready-to-run (RTR) model
- HO scale
- Recommended minimum radius: 24"
- Made by Rapido Trains