Product Information:
HO BiLevel Commuter Car: FrontRunner Coach: Unnumbered
Rapido Trains is proud to announce the second release of our highly popular Bilevel Commuter Cars in HO Scale, featuring several new paint schemes and body variations!
The current Bilevel design, although largely originating in Europe, found its way to North American rails in the 1970s and has since been put to use by dozens of commuter agencies all across Canada and the United States. Originally designed by Hawker Siddeley Canada, the cars have been manufactured over the years by Hawker Siddeley, UTDC, SNC-Lavalin, Bombardier and today, Alstom, always at the original Canadian Car & Foundry (CanCar) factory in Thunder Bay, Ontario. By the 2000s, agencies such as Sound Transit, FrontRunner in Salt Lake City, Rail Runner in Albuquerque and West Coast Express adopted the design; as of 2023, 14 agencies operate almost 1500 Bilevel Commuter Cars.
The Rapido Bilevel Commuter Car features:
- Accurate body shell designs with or without rivet details
- Five windows or four windows on the lower level, as appropriate
- Free-rolling, highly-detailed inside-bearing trucks with roller-bearing axles and metal wheelsets
- Minimum 22” radius curves
- Full underbody and unrivaled interior detail
- Accurate painting and lettering, both inside and out
- Tinted windows
- Metal side grab irons
- Constant interior lighting in DC and DCC
- Controllable cab car lighting in both DC and DCC
- Cab cars pre-wired with a speaker and a 21-pin socket for full DCC/Sound functionality
