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Rapido Trains - PS9508 - Engine, Diesel, FPA-4 & FPB-4 - Canadian National - 6773, 6867

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Commissioned ByPrairie Shadows
Stock NumberPS9508
BrandRapido Trains
ManufacturerRapido Trains
Body StyleRapido Diesel Engine FPA-4 & FPB-4
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
PrototypeEngine, Diesel, FPA-4 & FPB-4
Road or Company NameCanadian National (Details)
Reporting MarksCN
Road or Reporting Number6773, 6867
Paint Color(s)Black, Red and Yellow
Print Color(s)White
Paint SchemeSergeant Stripes
Coupler TypeMT Magne-Matic Knuckle
Wheel TypeNickel-Silver Plated Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
DCC ReadinessDC/DCC Dual Mode Decoder w/Sound
Announcement Date2016-10-28
Release Date2017-07-01
Item CategoryLocomotives
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeMLW
Model VarietyFPA-4 & FPB-4



Specific Item Information: A-B, 1961 paint scheme
Model Information: Sold only in pairs, either A-B or A-A. Indicated price is per pair.
  • Rapido's proven 5-pole, skew-wound motor with silky-smooth drive system
  • 100% accurate dimensions taken from a 3D scan of the prototype
  • Operational headlight and back-up lights
  • Full cab interior on the A unit
  • Separate grab irons, sunshades and MU hoses
  • Several road numbers plus unnumbered for each scheme
  • All locomotives include decals for new numbers, logos and safety marks
  • Solid nickel silver wheelsets
  • Micro-Trains couplers mounted at the correct height
DCC Information:
  • Available in either DC/Silent (DCC-Ready with 6-pin/NEM 651 quick plug) or DC/DCC/Sound from ESU installed.
  • Sounds recorded from the real FPA-4 number 6764
  • Sound decoder loaded with original Rapido sounds
Road Name History:
The Canadian National Railway Company (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad". CN is a public company with 24,000 employees. It had a market capitalization of 32 billion CAD in 2011. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. Bill Gates was, in 2011, the largest single shareholder of CN stock.

CN is the largest railway in Canada, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, and is currently Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Its range once reached across the island of Newfoundland until 1988, when the Newfoundland Railway was abandoned.

Following CN's purchase of Illinois Central (IC) and a number of smaller US railways, it also has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, CN owns about 20,400 route miles (32,831 km) of track in 8 provinces (the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island), as well as a 70-mile (113 km) stretch of track (see Mackenzie Northern Railway) into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far north as Anchorage, Alaska (although the Alaska Railroad goes further north than this, it is isolated from the rest of the rail network).

The railway was referred to as the Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and as Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to the present.

Read more on Wikipedia.
Brand/Importer Information:
Rapido Trains Inc. is a high-end manufacturer of model trains and accessories in HO, OO and N (North American 1:160 and British 1:148) scales. The firm's mission is to recreate the entire rail travel experience, from fully-detailed interiors and under-frames on models to fully-wired telephone poles for model railroads.

The name RAPIDO was introduced by Canadian National in 1965 to headline the railway's high-speed intercity passenger services. Until the mid-1980s, RAPIDO stood for fast schedules, frequent trains, and superb service.

Today, Rapido Trains continues the RAPIDO concept with state-of-the-art models and attention to fine detail. This company is not related to the venerable (and now defunct) German manufacturer Arnold Rapido, nor the present-day Arnold (which is owned by the United Kingdom's Hornby), Canadian based Rapido Trains was founded in 2003.
Commissioner Information: Prairie Shadows Model Railway Co. is a small model railway supply company located in Winnipeg, MB, and owned by Jeff Arnold. They pride themselves in providing solid service and fair prices.
They commissioned several exclusive N scale models to Rapido Trains Inc.
Item created by: Alain LM on 2016-10-29 07:03:37. Last edited by Alain LM on 2020-12-02 09:45:17

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