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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 25, 2014 14:35:18 GMT -8
Hi guys, We've just sent out the latest Rapido News. It's all about the VIA/Amtrak LRC. Orders for the locomotive must be in by next Thursday as the numbers go to China on Friday. Here's the link: www.rapidotrains.com/rapidonews59.html The photo below shows the real LRC locomotive owned by the TRHA. We finally got it running this month after 13 years in storage. Thanks for looking, Jason
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Post by GP40P-2 on Jul 25, 2014 15:58:10 GMT -8
"The lack of underframe detail is included" and "This is not an F7 painted in LRC colors." Awesome!!! Even if I don't need an LRC, reading your newsletters can make my day.
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Post by roadkill on Jul 25, 2014 16:26:35 GMT -8
Ok, I don't model Canadian railroading, and I model the mid '70s when these damn things weren't even in regular service yet. So why the heck do I want one so badly ?
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Post by atsfan on Jul 25, 2014 16:35:28 GMT -8
I rode the Amtrak LRC. While this will a great model, I am glad Amtrak passed on them. They were rough riders, with small seats and limited space for baggage. People have been coming up with lightweight trains of the future for 70 years. All have failed to replace what works; a real locomotive pulling real coaches with real heavy duty trucks underneath.
I nope these do well for Rapido as your dedication to making them is compelling.
Looking forward to a new Passenger car.
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 26, 2014 7:40:16 GMT -8
Jason, if you equip the model LRC with photon emitters, purchasers can pull holographic LRC trains around their layouts, with less headaches, such as storing the cars when not in use. You could then charge more for the LRC locomotive to make up for lost car sales. I'm sure someone wouldn't mind paying the extra billion or so dollars in development costs in order to have this cool feature. And before you ask, my line of credit will unfortunately not be able to cover that cost...
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Post by rails4dmv on Jul 26, 2014 11:02:14 GMT -8
I'll definitely pop for an Amtrak LRC and coaches to go with my Turbo and can't wait to see what other Budd releases are coming down the pike.
Stopped by MB Klein's on the way home and those Budd cars just made me a broke man for this weekend. Picked up 3 Amtrak Phase I coaches and here's hoping Rapido does Phase III "Heritage" coaches & sleepers down the road.
You and the Rapido gang do good work!!
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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 26, 2014 18:14:28 GMT -8
Jason, if you equip the model LRC with photon emitters, purchasers can pull holographic LRC trains around their layouts, with less headaches, such as storing the cars when not in use. You could then charge more for the LRC locomotive to make up for lost car sales. I'm sure someone wouldn't mind paying the extra billion or so dollars in development costs in order to have this cool feature. And before you ask, my line of credit will unfortunately not be able to cover that cost... The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 27, 2014 4:45:13 GMT -8
Jason, if you equip the model LRC with photon emitters, purchasers can pull holographic LRC trains around their layouts, with less headaches, such as storing the cars when not in use. You could then charge more for the LRC locomotive to make up for lost car sales. I'm sure someone wouldn't mind paying the extra billion or so dollars in development costs in order to have this cool feature. And before you ask, my line of credit will unfortunately not be able to cover that cost... The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason I think you might be better to use an F unit, in order to have more room for equipment. Those shield generators take up a lot of room, and they are a must when phasering other trains off the tracks. Otherwise, your train could be struck and damaged by the debris field. And I can understand a vexed engineer--"Ach! Me bairns!!!"
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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 27, 2014 15:33:15 GMT -8
I think you might be better to use an F unit, in order to have more room for equipment. Those shield generators take up a lot of room, and they are a must when phasering other trains off the tracks. Otherwise, your train could be struck and damaged by the debris field. And I can understand a vexed engineer--"Ach! Me bairns!!!" We are seriously outing our uber-nerdiness. (says the guy currently wearing a Starfleet T-shirt with real communicator....) -Jason
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Post by atsfan on Jul 27, 2014 17:56:34 GMT -8
I think you might be better to use an F unit, in order to have more room for equipment. Those shield generators take up a lot of room, and they are a must when phasering other trains off the tracks. Otherwise, your train could be struck and damaged by the debris field. And I can understand a vexed engineer--"Ach! Me bairns!!!" We are seriously outing our uber-nerdiness. (says the guy currently wearing a Starfleet T-shirt with real communicator....) -Jason You dudes need to be at Comic-con.
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Post by John Sheridan on Jul 28, 2014 5:22:56 GMT -8
Jason, if you equip the model LRC with photon emitters, purchasers can pull holographic LRC trains around their layouts, with less headaches, such as storing the cars when not in use. You could then charge more for the LRC locomotive to make up for lost car sales. I'm sure someone wouldn't mind paying the extra billion or so dollars in development costs in order to have this cool feature. And before you ask, my line of credit will unfortunately not be able to cover that cost... The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason Jason, you must be confused. Everyone knows that if you simply couple the proton-transducers to be warp core phased plasma relays, your LRC could easily support a portable photon emitter. Anyways if you have everyone jumping to the 29th century (which violates the Temporal Prime Directive) you will run afoul of the Starfleet Temporal Police.
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 28, 2014 7:42:24 GMT -8
The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason Jason, you must be confused. Everyone knows that if you simply couple the proton-transducers to be warp core phased plasma relays, your LRC could easily support a portable photon emitter. Anyways if you have everyone jumping to the 29th century (which violates the Temporal Prime Directive) you will run afoul of the Starfleet Temporal Police. Not only that, there will be no one left in this timeline to purchase LRVs...
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Post by rails4dmv on Jul 28, 2014 11:23:40 GMT -8
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Post by dti406 on Jul 28, 2014 11:29:41 GMT -8
Jason, if you equip the model LRC with photon emitters, purchasers can pull holographic LRC trains around their layouts, with less headaches, such as storing the cars when not in use. You could then charge more for the LRC locomotive to make up for lost car sales. I'm sure someone wouldn't mind paying the extra billion or so dollars in development costs in order to have this cool feature. And before you ask, my line of credit will unfortunately not be able to cover that cost... The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason You mean it does not have a flux capacitor!!!! Rick J
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 28, 2014 18:31:24 GMT -8
The trouble with photon emitters is they are darn-near impossible to make portable unless you have access to 29th-century technology. Our GMD-1 comes equipped with phasers, photons and warp drive. It also has a dematerialization circuit and a vexed engineer. I'm not kidding. Press F13-F17. -Jason You mean it does not have a flux capacitor!!!! Rick J They only installed flux capacitors on Deloreans.
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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 28, 2014 19:41:35 GMT -8
Jason, you must be confused. Everyone knows that if you simply couple the proton-transducers to be warp core phased plasma relays, your LRC could easily support a portable photon emitter. Anyways if you have everyone jumping to the 29th century (which violates the Temporal Prime Directive) you will run afoul of the Starfleet Temporal Police. But the problem is you need a MOBILE emitter, and that is 29th-century technology that can't be replicated. Now if you want a non-corporeal hologram, you just need to modify an NCE 10-Amp deflector array for photonic transmission - easily done with a TCS phase inverter - but WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT? By the way, with every LRC you get a 250 LB bag of self-sealing stem bolts, and with every FL9 you get 100L of Yamok sauce. They were on special. -Jason
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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 28, 2014 19:42:24 GMT -8
BTW, normal people have no @$%^&@$ idea what we're talking about.
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 29, 2014 3:09:57 GMT -8
BTW, normal people have no @$%^&@$ idea what we're talking about. I asked my wife if we could have a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting. I got one of "those looks"...
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Post by dti406 on Jul 29, 2014 3:59:43 GMT -8
BTW, normal people have no @$%^&@$ idea what we're talking about. I asked my wife if we could have a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting. I got one of "those looks"... Thanks Terry, I got my morning coffee all over my keyboard!!! Rick J
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Post by John Sheridan on Jul 29, 2014 7:17:16 GMT -8
Jason, you must be confused. Everyone knows that if you simply couple the proton-transducers to be warp core phased plasma relays, your LRC could easily support a portable photon emitter. Anyways if you have everyone jumping to the 29th century (which violates the Temporal Prime Directive) you will run afoul of the Starfleet Temporal Police. But the problem is you need a MOBILE emitter, and that is 29th-century technology that can't be replicated. Now if you want a non-corporeal hologram, you just need to modify an NCE 10-Amp deflector array for photonic transmission - easily done with a TCS phase inverter - but WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT? By the way, with every LRC you get a 250 LB bag of self-sealing stem bolts, and with every FL9 you get 100L of Yamok sauce. They were on special. -Jason Ok, You have me sold on the self-sealing stem bolts (Yamok sauce always gives my gas). Now Mr. Yellow-shirt (what ? no red shirt ?) I dare you to list the FL-9 & the LRC on the Rapido website in units of Gold-pressed Latinum. Go-ahead. You know you want to.....heh heh heh.
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 29, 2014 8:35:14 GMT -8
But the problem is you need a MOBILE emitter, and that is 29th-century technology that can't be replicated. Now if you want a non-corporeal hologram, you just need to modify an NCE 10-Amp deflector array for photonic transmission - easily done with a TCS phase inverter - but WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT? By the way, with every LRC you get a 250 LB bag of self-sealing stem bolts, and with every FL9 you get 100L of Yamok sauce. They were on special. -Jason Ok, You have me sold on the self-sealing stem bolts (Yamok sauce always gives my gas). Now Mr. Yellow-shirt (what ? no red shirt ?) I dare you to list the FL-9 & the LRC on the Rapido website in units of Gold-pressed Latinum. Go-ahead. You know you want to.....heh heh heh. You know the 96th rule of acquisition forbids advertising prices.
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Post by John Sheridan on Jul 29, 2014 11:10:29 GMT -8
Ok, You have me sold on the self-sealing stem bolts (Yamok sauce always gives my gas). Now Mr. Yellow-shirt (what ? no red shirt ?) I dare you to list the FL-9 & the LRC on the Rapido website in units of Gold-pressed Latinum. Go-ahead. You know you want to.....heh heh heh. You know the 96th rule of acquisition forbids advertising prices. Might be true. However, Rule #1 is the most important of all.
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Post by rapidotrains on Jul 29, 2014 19:07:41 GMT -8
OK so who is meeting me in Vegas for the 2016 50th anniversary convention?
-Jason
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Post by dti406 on Jul 29, 2014 19:25:50 GMT -8
I want the NCC-1702 Paint Scheme!!!!!!
Rick J
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Post by Tom on Jul 29, 2014 20:46:00 GMT -8
Would it be possible to get the diaphragms of the LRC cars as a separate part? They'd dress up a bunch of my Walthers cars with very crappy ones nicely.
-Tom
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Post by fmilhaupt on Jul 30, 2014 3:36:40 GMT -8
Well, there is precedent for a car numbered NCCX-1701...
When they first got their ex-C&O tool car in the 1980s, the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation (now Steam Railroading Institute) wanted to give it a number that they'd find easy to track if the car ever were to be separated from their Berkshire, #1225.
Unfortunately, I've only managed to get a number of crummy grab shots of it over the years that don't show this terribly well.
PM 1225 and interestingly-numbered tool car, en route to Huntington, WV in 1991
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 30, 2014 9:18:29 GMT -8
The license plate on my travel trailer is 17001... My RV club membership number is 1801 (1701 was not available)...
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Post by Spikre on Jul 30, 2014 12:51:16 GMT -8
used to have a plate that started with UZI-xxx,some one stole the front plate, and didn't want to pay over $75.00 for a replacement.should still have the remaining UZI plate somewhere. Spikre
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Post by Weed Weasel on Apr 13, 2015 17:54:00 GMT -8
Ok, I picked up my new LRC this weekend. This model sets a new standard. I model CSX but after running one it had to go home. Now how do I get the stem bolts?
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Post by bnsf971 on Apr 14, 2015 2:58:39 GMT -8
Ok, I picked up my new LRC this weekend. This model sets a new standard. I model CSX but after running one it had to go home. Now how do I get the stem bolts? I think those were on backorder. Jason will probably send you a box of them when they become available.
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