Description: RAPIDOHO Scale Ready-To-Run Super Continental Line(TM) Duplex Sleeper -- Canadian National Railways "Eastport" (1954 Scheme)Out-Of-Production DISCONTINUED By the Manufacturerthe HIGHLY DETAILED Version -Comes with INTERIOR DETAILING / INTERIOR LIGHTS / UNDERCARRIAGE DETAILING Manufacturer Background InformationRapido Trains is a Canadian manufacturer of North American HO and N Scale model trains. Product Features:Modernize your streamliner fleet with these superbly detailed replicas. The models are based on cars ordered by Canadian National in the early 1950s, which are similar to equipment found on many North American railroads from 1940-1980. Each comes prepainted and lettered, with several different numbers or names for each scheme to easily build a larger consist. Cars are fully assembled and include partial skirts or fixed steps as appropriate, along with: detailed underbody with separate steam, air and electrical lines, flush-fitting windows with raised and painted window frames, factory-applied grab irons and uncoupling levers, fully detailed interior cast in appropriate colors, battery-powered LED lighting operated by magnetic wand (included), separate, removable marker lamps and end gates, McHenry Couplers and operating diaphragms with supports. All cars will negotiate 18" radius curves; 24" or greater is recommended. All Super Continental Line passenger cars feature battery-powered interior LED lighting which is turned on and off by the Rapido Lighter, essentially a magnet on a stick.Wave the Rapido Lighter over the AC hatch on the roof, and the lights turn on. Wave it again, and the lights turn off.No more coach yards filled with lighted cars draining your power pack, and no more flicker!Each car comes with a Rapido Lighter and two batteries.Features:HO scale ready-to-run, injection-molded plastic modelsDetailed underbody with separate steam, air and electrical linesFlush-fitting windows with raised and painted window framesFactory-applied grab irons and uncoupling leversFully detailed interior cast in appropriate colorsBattery-powered LED lighting operated by magnetic wand (included)Separate, removable marker lamps and end gatesMcHenry® couplers and operating diaphragms with support bars18″ minimum radius (24″ or greater recommended)Multiple car names/numbers available for each railroad and type of carDetailed, illustrated, 12-page instruction booklet OVERVIEW:The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.HistoryPossibly the earliest example of a sleeping car (or bed carriage, as it was then called) was on the London & Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways between London and Lancashire, England. The bed carriage was first made available to first-class passengers in 1838.The first American sleeping car, the "Chambersburg" started service on the CVRR in 1839.In the spring of 1839, the Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the United States with a car named "Chambersburg", between Chambersburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A couple of years later a second car, the "Carlisle", was introduced into service.In 1857, the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts – one of the United States' first makers of railway passenger coach equipment – produced America's first specifically designed sleeping car. Canadian railways soon followed with their own sleeping cars: first the Grand Trunk in 1858, then the Great Western. The man who ultimately made the sleeping car business profitable in the United States was George Pullman, who began by building a luxurious sleeping car (named Pioneer) in 1865. The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867, owned and operated most sleeping cars in the United States until the mid-20th century, attaching them to passenger trains run by the various railroads; there were also some sleeping cars that were operated by Pullman but owned by the railroad running a given train. During the peak years of American passenger railroading, several all-Pullman trains existed, including the 20th Century Limited on the New York Central Railroad, the Broadway Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Panama Limited on the Illinois Central Railroad, and the Super Chief on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Pullman cars were normally a dark "Pullman green", although some were painted in the host railroad's colors. The cars carried individual names, but usually did not carry visible numbers. In the 1920s, the Pullman Company went through a series of restructuring steps, which in the end resulted in a parent company, Pullman Incorporated, controlling the Pullman Company (which owned and operated sleeping cars) and the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company. Due to an antitrust verdict in 1947, a consortium of railroads bought the Pullman Company from Pullman Incorporated, and subsequently railroads owned and operated Pullman-made sleeping cars themselves. Pullman-Standard continued manufacturing sleeping cars and other passenger and freight railroad cars until 1980.For nearly a year during the end of World War II the United States government banned sleeping cars for runs of less than 450 miles (720 km) in order to make sleepers available for transporting troops returning to the US from Europe, many being deployed in the Pacific Theater. The development of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and the expansion of jet airline travel in the same decade negatively affected train travel. Cultural impact of Pullman portersPullman porter making an upper berth aboard the B&O Capitol Limited bound for Chicago, c. 1944One unanticipated consequence of the rise of Pullman cars in the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries was their effect on civil rights and African-American culture. Each Pullman car was staffed by a uniformed porter. The majority of Pullman porters were African Americans. While still a menial job in many respects, Pullman offered better pay and security than most jobs open to African Americans at the time, in addition to a chance for travel, and it was a well regarded job in the African-American community of the time. The Pullman attendants, regardless of their true name, were traditionally referred to as "George" by the travelers, the name of the company's founder, George Pullman. The Pullman company was the largest employer of African Americans in the United States.Railway porters fought for political recognition and were eventually unionized. Their union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (established, 1925), became an important source of strength for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement in the early 20th century, notably under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph. Because they moved about the country, Pullman porters also became an important means of communication for news and cultural information of all kinds. The African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, gained a national circulation in this way. Porters also used to re-sell phonograph records bought in the great metropolitan centers, greatly adding to the distribution of jazz and blues and the popularity of the artists. Open-section accommodationFrom the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, the most common and more economical type of sleeping car accommodation on North American trains was the "open section". Open-section accommodations consist of pairs of seats, one seat facing forward and the other backward, situated on either side of a center aisle. The seat pairs can be converted into the combination of an upper and a lower "berth", each berth consisting of a bed screened from the aisle by a curtain. A famous example of open sections can be seen in the movie Some Like It Hot (1959).Private accommodationsIn the mid-to-late 20th century, an increasing variety of private rooms was offered. Most of these rooms provided significantly more space than open-section accommodations could offer. Open-sections were increasingly phased out in the 1950s, in favor of roomettes. Some of them, such as the rooms of the "Slumbercoach" cars manufactured by the Budd Company and first put into service in 1956, were triumphs of miniaturization. These allowed a single car to increase the number of sleepers over a conventional sleeping car of private rooms. RoomettesA Roomette, in the historically correct sense of the word, is a private room for a single passenger, containing a single seat, a folding bed, a toilet (not in a private cubicle of its own), and a washbasin. When a traditional Roomette is in night mode, the bed blocks access to the toilet. Like open sections, Roomettes are placed on both sides of the car, with a corridor down the center. Duplex Roomettes, a Pullman-produced precursor to the Slumbercoach, are staggered vertically, with every second accommodation raised a few feet above the car's floor level, in order to make slightly more efficient use of the space. Single-passenger Slumbercoach accommodations are a particularly spartan form of roomette; Slumbercoaches also included a few two-passenger units. Compartments and double bedroomsCompartments and Double Bedrooms are private rooms for two passengers, with upper and lower berths, washbasins, and private toilets, placed on one side of the car, with the corridor running down the other side (thus allowing the accommodation to be slightly over two thirds the width of the car). Frequently, these accommodations have movable partitions allowing adjacent accommodations to be combined into a suite. Drawing rooms and larger accommodationsThe drawing room was a relatively rare and expensive option for travelers. It could comfortably accommodate three people, again with a washbasin and private toilet on one side of the car. Even rarer are larger rooms accommodating four or more. Generally the needs of large parties were better served with multiple rooms, with or without the ability to combine them into a suite. Modern Amtrak accommodationsAmtrak's Superliner Economy Bedrooms (now called Superliner Roomettes, although they are structurally closer to open sections) accommodate two passengers in facing seats that fold out into a lower berth, with an upper berth that folds down from above, a small closet, and no in-room washbasin or toilet, on both sides of both the upper and lower levels of the car. Effectively, they are open sections with walls, a door, and a built-in access ladder for the upper berth (which doubles as a nightstand for the lower berth passenger). Superliner Deluxe Bedrooms are essentially the same as historic Compartments and Double Bedrooms, with the toilet cubicle doubling as a private shower cubicle. In addition, each Superliner sleeping car has two special lower-level accommodations, each taking up the full width of the car: the Accessible Bedroom, at the restroom/shower end of the car (below the Deluxe Bedrooms), is a fully wheelchair-accessible accommodation for two, with a roll-in cubicle for the toilet and shower; the Family Bedroom, at the Economy Bedroom end of the car, accommodates two adults and up to three small children, without private toilet or shower facilities. Car Features:Highly Detailed interiorInterior lightingMarker LampsEnd GatingWindow ShadesWindow TintingSuper Detailed Underbody Piping Runs Accurately scaled from engineering drawings Scaled Dimensions & Rivet DetailComplete End, Roof & Underbody DetailingFactory - Installed Hand RailsScale windowsCorrect Trucks with RP-25 Metal Wheels Crisp detailed, realistic lettering, matched to prototype photographsRealistic satin paint finish, great for weatheringDetailed truck side frames Low-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axles, no lubrication required THIS IS NEW item in the ORIGINAL Box VERY HARD TO FIND ITEM We do combine shipping on multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you. THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item The item is NEW in the original box from old stock PERSONAL INVENTORY: Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them. STORE INVENTORY: Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS. I will be Liquidating the remaining stock. I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing them out. Please see the photos we take actual photos of each item Most of these items are New in the box removed only to take photos of them.
Price: 199.95 USD
Location: Van, Texas
End Time: 2024-12-24T22:05:18.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Assembly Status: Ready to Go/Pre-built
Color: Multicolor
Replica of: DUPLEX SLEEPER
Material: Plastic
Scale: 1:87
Grade: C-10 Mint-Brand New
Year Manufactured: 2012
MPN: 101011
Age Level: 17 Years & Up
Control System: DC / DCC
Item Length: 11 in
Gauge: HO
Vintage: Yes
Brand: Rapido Trains
Type: Passenger Car
Rail System: Two-Rail System
Corporate Roadname: Canadian National
Theme: RAILROADING
Features: Light Function, Limited Edition, Painted, HIGHLY DETAILED, DETAILED UNDERCARRIAGE, METAL GRAB RAILINGS, KNUCKLE COUPLERS, COLORED INTERIOR, WINDOW SHADES, End of car gates
Time Period Manufactured: 2010-2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
