« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]   Go Down

Author Topic: Rapido 200  (Read 3506 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

DKS

  • The Pitt
  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 13424
  • Respect: +7026
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2019, 03:51:29 PM »
0
Quote from: peteski on January 21, 2019, 03:40:14 PM
Is this the Diesel push toy?



I own that one and it does seem close to N scale.

Dayum. Sandblast the thing, give it a new paint job, stick a modern mechanism inside, and it's a decent model. Trix was way ahead of their time.
Logged

peteski

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 34101
  • Gender: Male
  • Honorary Resident Curmudgeon
  • Respect: +6050
    • Coming (not so) soon...
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2019, 03:54:54 PM »
0
Quote from: David K. Smith on January 21, 2019, 03:51:29 PM
Dayum. Sandblast the thing, give it a new paint job, stick a modern mechanism inside, and it's a decent model. Trix was way ahead of their time.

No way!  Haven't you heard that refinishing antique pieces destroys their value?  Chipped paint and patina are very important part of that item's character.  :D

But seriously, I agree, that is pretty well done model, especially considering how long ago it was made. And it is all metal.
Logged
. . . 42 . . .

MK

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 4232
  • Respect: +871
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2019, 09:54:14 PM »
0
Looks like a GG-1.   :D :trollface:
Logged

RRRover

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 61
  • Respect: +18
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2019, 10:31:03 AM »
0
That's the diesel, but mine are in great shape. I'll have to post pix when I get a chance.
Logged

Doug G.

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 1140
  • Gender: Male
  • Respect: +50
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2019, 05:37:09 PM »
0
What's that, about a V600 or something?

:D

Doug
Logged
Atlas First Generation Motive Power and Treble-O-Lectric. Click on the link:
www.irwinsjournal.com/a1g/a1glocos/

peteski

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 34101
  • Gender: Male
  • Honorary Resident Curmudgeon
  • Respect: +6050
    • Coming (not so) soon...
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2019, 07:03:20 PM »
0
Logged
. . . 42 . . .

ncbqguy

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 624
  • Gender: Male
  • Respect: +386
Re: Rapido 200
« Reply #21 on: January 22, 2019, 07:16:32 PM »
0
I had a presentation on the Early History of N Scale that I gave at the Louisville N Scale Collectors meet in 2008 (???).
I covered the Trix Rollmodelle ("Schiebetrix") metal pushtoys in 1:180 scale and the Rapido 200 lines.  Somewhere in my travels somebody mentioned that the Rapido 200 or perhaps a predecessor Arnold product had a EMD F3, different than the metal electric motor powered Arnold Rapido F7.

In my youth I had the Nosco "Streamliners" which were N Scale size plastic windup EMD E A&B units that were a cross between the UP E-2 and Burlington E-5s with Pullman Standard Coach, Dome, and Observation Cars.

The story behind the Arnold Rapido version of the ROKAL TT coupler has been mentioned but many of you probably don't know that the first Sekisui Kinzoku (Kato) N Scale had 1/160 N.M.R.A. X2f Horn-Hook couplers!!

The MiniTrix N line F7A, Steel Gondola, Flat Car, PS1 Box Car, and Caboose were actually previewed at the Hobby Industry Show in Chicago in 1966 by Nathan Preston, a year before release as Postage Stamp Trains, a early Des Plaines, Illinois importer of German lines similar to Charles Merzbach in New York.   The line was prempted from him by Aurora not unlike Arnold Rapido being taken over from Charles Merzbach as the importer.

Speaking of Charles Merzbach, he started a line after losing the Arnold Rapido importing to be called Charmerz.  There was to be an entire range of products but only the smoker version of the Rowa N&W Y6B ever materialized.   I suspect that the items that were intended to be in the line found their way to Con-Cor (RDCs), MRC later Aurora (freight cars) and Atlas (F9, GP30, GP9, 0-6-0T).  Most of the production was by Roco.

Charlie Vlk

 
« Last Edit: January 22, 2019, 07:19:27 PM by ncbqguy »
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]   Go Up
« previous next »