Rapido make great products, if there's a problem they always try and make it right. Glad you contacted them, should always be the first response after informing people you have a problem. Great to see they acknowledged the issue and provided a fix! great video

The few bathtubs I have are going into scrap service, which you see a lot of in videos.

That was a very time consuming project but I’m glad they stood good and stand behind the product. They do make a tool that fit’s between the truck frames to open up the bearings cups, but it too is time consuming but you won’t need to put undue stress on the frames by bending them out and taking a chance on snapping one off. Ron

Glad you got the rolling issue solved. That was great of Rapido to send you all of the truck replacements. Now you will have to run a mega coal empty lol !

Hi Daryl, Great response from Rapido - well done (shame your fingers had to suffer 😞)

Another ripper Darryl 🇦🇺👍

Oh my gondola!! 😂 What a lot of work... but I'm glad they made it right for you! Excellent video sir! - Gary

That is beautiful...

Another fantastic coal gondola are the slightly older Athearn RTR 5 pack! (Blue box with the yellow oval) The detail is fantastic and the shinny aluminum take them to another level!

Glad you got in touch with Rapido, they are a great company , I know that from my own experience with them, they replaced 5 motors for me under warranty on my RS11S enjoyed the video, thanks for doing them

Good to see Rapido corrected the problem. Looks like a time consuming project to change out the trucks. But I am sure it was well worth it. Thanks for sharing.

You could use those older coal cars for moving like old ties. You see a lot of those older ones used for things like that.

Great video

hello the ho scale & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks the ho scale friends randy

KEEP BUILDING 👍

Rapido is very good with their customer service from what I've heard and always want to make things right if it was a screw up on their end.

Manufacture, will work with you mostly. But glad they responded in kind! Awesome, now send them your tymeslip for replacing all those trucks!!! Lol

The cars look great but need some variety in the coal loads!

Good service from RAPIDO . Did any of these axles had a resistor for the signals or they were equipped yet ? If you uncouple a car or a series of cars in the helix , would they go all the way or they would derailed going too fast ?

Wow giant bathtubs cold and iron ore 85 tons that's a long time ago built in 1970s

Just curious, can't remember the video you mentioned this in. But why only 45 cars? Is it space, fit better with your layout? I lived in provo UT for awhile and they were consistently around 120 cars. Now I'm in east texas right next to a CPKC line that runs up coal trains almost every day. I hear on their detector axle count anywhere from 522 to 532 axle counts which is a 2×2 or a 2×1 which generally is 126 cars. Just curious. FYI, I am only 500 feet away from the mainline and laying in bed I can watch them Go by put my window. My radio is in my room too so I can hear 3 detectors and get advanced notice of trains coming. As we speak there's a manifest train in a yard 15 miles north of me dropping off 1 car, picking up 11. Heard on the radio as I'm watching this video, so in about an hour I'll have an east bounder roll by my place. Love your layout fyi. You're my only channel I consistently watch. Oh also, about 2 months ago one up coal train here couldn't make it up a hill here, someone never checked the sand level in 2 of the locomotives and stalled out. A local set of gp 40s came from a yard(same one as above) hooked up and gave them hell, after a few attempts stretching the cars and releasing they got momentum back and got her rolling. So even the big trains stall out with coal lol. Thought it was pretty cool to watch that coal train get helped by 2 gp40s. Almost couldn't do it

All depends on who owns them whether or not they'd still be in unit train service...if owned by a utility that has rotary dumpers, then the bathtub gons might still be hauling coal. I'd need an Official Railway Equipment register to know for sure though(I had a couple from the late 80's early 90's when I worked in logistics, but I had to let them go when I had to sell my parents old retirement home, not enough to time to save everything).

Gota lot of those here in California

I hear you comment that you had a few cars going the wrong way. Is there a reason for the orientation of direction?

Does adding the coal load to 40 some cars make much difference in the pulling efficiency?

i'll take the bathtub coal cars

those fake loads look terrible; didnt i see somewhere where there is more realistic looking loads for those?

I would be a little leery of bending the side frames outwards. I know it would take longer, but Ive taken my Dremel with a cutoff disk and grind down the point on the end of the axle that fits into the hole in the back of the side frame. Just my .02 worth.

Do the original trucks have the reporting marks and car numbers ?