New Passenger Cars from TR Castings

[Mark5]

I know the observation must be the same one used on the Pennsy (Mountain series), but what the heck?

http://www.walthers.com/exec/newproducts/cr/201404/Passenger

Apparently TR Castings is an evolution of BL Hobbies , but does anyone know anything about this?

Mark

[Sokramiketes]

No idea, but judging from their signals being sold elsewhere, I'm not holding on to much hope.

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/t+r/t+r121.htm

[Altoona]

PRR car names
George Brooke Roberts
Frank Thomson
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
James McCrea
William Wallace Atterbury
Thomas Alexander Scott
Samuel Rea

[jmlaboda]

For the money they are going to charge to buy any of their cars they better be good.  The fact that they are listed without some sort of drawing or pic of a pre-production sample doesn't loan itself to being something I would necessarily be interested in... but then, I would have little use for streamlined cars on my pike anyways since I am wanting to model the late steam era.

[Mark5]

I'll reserve judgement until (if and when) I see these.

Gotta say its an odd choice for an observation, as it seems to be the same car Rivarossi did eons ago and more recently by Kato on the PRR Broadway.

[central.vermont]

So just what are "standard couplers" as apposed to MT couplers? Are they implying that these will have Rapido couplers! 

Jon

[Bob Bufkin]

Those cars are a different class than the Kato ones.  Almost look the same but different arrangement inside.

[peteski]

So just what are "standard couplers" as apposed to MT couplers? Are they implying that these will have Rapido couplers! 

Jon

It sure appears that way.

Rapido was (and still is) the standard N scale coupler (wordlwide).  US modelers did not start calling them "Rapido" until fairly recently. I think it was around the time that multiple versions of knuckle couplers started appearing in N scale. Before that, when all models came with factory installed couplers (well except for MT offerings), Rapido was the standard coupler.  It wasn't all that long ago. 

[Mark5]

It sure appears that way.

Rapido was (and still is) the standard N scale coupler (wordlwide).  US modelers did not start calling them "Rapido" until fairly recently. I think it was around the time that multiple versions of knuckle couplers started appearing in N scale. Before that, when all models came with factory installed couplers (well except for MT offerings), Rapido was the standard coupler.  It wasn't all that long ago. 

I've been in N scale since around 1970 and as long as I can remember they've been called Rapido couplers - presumably because Arnold Rapido first developed them.

[Catt]

peteski said,

US modelers did not start calling them "Rapido" until fairly recently. I think it was around the time that multiple versions of knuckle couplers started appearing in N scale.

We've been calling them Rapidos for at least 40 years here in West Michigan.The nice (?) thing about thedm was you knew that all of your cars would coupled together.Even if they wouldn't stay coupled together.

[Dave Schneider]

So just what are "standard couplers" as apposed to MT couplers? Are they implying that these will have Rapido couplers! 

Jon

Perhaps they are using one of those reverse engineered couplers and cannot call them MT for legal reasons.

Best wishes, Dave

[muktown128]

There are a couple of things that don't make sense to me - no picture/drawing and a $7 higher list price for an MT coupler equipped model.  Really???  If you are going to offer a model with MT couplers, why even bother with a Rapido coupler version.

[jmlaboda]

Those cars are a different class than the Kato ones.  Almost look the same but different arrangement inside.

And a different outside... (some shots from the "Ain't Prototypical Department)...

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr8421.jpg
http://rr-fallenflags.org/misc-u/unk-o820abp.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr8422.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr_louis_sock.jpg
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2068136
http://rrpicturearchives.net/rspicture.aspx?id=435328

Kind of surprising that so many survive to this day.  IF they do them right it would be a welcome addition to what could be staged prototypically because of all the survivors.

[Mark5]

Jerry,

Is the Kato car different from the Rivarossi version? (those photos look identical to the Rivarossi car to me).

Mark

[jmlaboda]

They should be the same car, just extremely greater quality over the original Atlas/Rivarossi model... ironically though, PRR only had two of them.