My grand dad and I rode the Royal Hudson many times he was a huge fan of the old girl , lots of 8mm videos and good memories

Now THERE is an accurately running valve gear! The eccentric crank is adjusted correctly and really moves-so fun to watch! Great review!

Hello Dan, the lights are slow to turn on because when the sound is on, you will first hear the dynamo being turned on and then power will be ready to switch the lights on, great review!

You gotta love Rapido. Their prices are a little North but I guess that's right as they are from Canada !! I love their sense of humor as well as excellent colorful picture boxes. Nice video.

Hey, thanks for sharing! I have enjoyed your “101” videos you did on trains. I learned a lot. I am starting out in the hobby with N scale.

Thanks for this review Dan! Because I'm getting ready to invest in one myself.

A great and very fair review Dan! I may look into picking one of these up

I value your discerning eye, and trove of knowledge. Not bad at all for a 'first run' model.

Dan, Nice review. I also saw this engine when I was a kid in 1977. Although my visit was in North Idaho on the Spokane International at its first stop in the the US..

Excellent review!

Another great review Dan, thanks

Nice sharp video, great technical details explained. 100 points

Great review Dan!

Rapido just announced a run of similar locomotives to this one, including the Empress herself, #2816! I’m definitely going to preorder one when they become available on Factory Direct! 😁

well great review.. i just ordered one.. thanks for taking a look at it fir us first .

Great video dan I love your videos !

This is a very useful and unbiased review. Thanks a lot, Dan!

Finally, an exploded parts page with a listing of the parts, numbered for reordering if ever needed. It's just too bed it doesn't have a smoke unit! For the price, I would prefer an Steam Locomotive model that smoked.

Great review there; very thorough! I had noticed the tilting tender on mine, and wasn't sure if it was a one-off or not (for mine at any rate, it seemed to be because the power wire on the rear truck had its insulating cover mushroom out and get stuck on the hole into the tender; dunno if it might be the same for you, but on the front truck). Any way, I felt like pointing out a thing or two; not to put down your review in any way, just one or two things I have yet to hear in video reviews about the loco and that I think other viewers might be interested to know. For one thing, it's actually got two separate speaker set-ups. You've got speakers in the tender for a louder sound, but you can flip a switch on the underside of the tender and the sound (albeit quieter due to technical limitations) will actually come out of the smokebox! How's that for prototypical? :P Rapido also included their trademark "silly sounds", which in this case are the Canadian National Anthem and a recording of King George VI giving a speech during his Canadian visit. One final thing, that I think few people in the Western Hemisphere know: the Royal Hudson is in fact Rapido's SECOND steam loco! Their first one is a British loco, the Stirling Single built for Locomotion Models. Again, great review, and hope you like yours as much as I'm liking mine!

Man look at that locomotive. I agree with your review Dan

Good video. Is this the strongest steamer you have in HO?

2860 has 2 whistles. The original superheated steam CPR one is in the stack and the saturated steam Bob Swanson whistle on the boiler.

Model Power did the same thing with the plug drawbar. "Although there's is bigger and awkward."

This is an impressive looking steam locomotive, too bad it is not equipped with a smoke unit, especially considering the model's massive price tag of $700.

The locomotive whistle is located in the smokestack to and I would like this because I would like to have her when she was in service with Canadian Pacific but that really scratches my head with her second whistle missing

I actually think there has been an unforeseen manufacturing/design flaw with this engine, I wonder if Rapido even realized it because when you look on their website they have images off the different paint schemes and version of the Royal Hudson. 2860 is clearly shown with a whistle mounted on the side of the boiler where you said it should be, but your delivered model has it mounted behind the smoke stake like the rest. Seems unusual for Rapido to miss that in the design phase, but looks like it slipped under the radar some how until final production without being noticed. I'm sure they probably won't be happy when they realize that mistake, but its such a minor detail, yet a detail Rapido would be very good about having, that makes it shocking to see it go unnoticed until after delivery. First steam engine from them so I guess minor issues like this are better then major issues with the model, good chance when they decided to make another run of these, it will be fixed.

I love 2860 but I currently have no space / Time / Money for a layout so I have to live vicariously through others on youtube but I can tell you If i ever won the lottery.

I wish they'd make a 2-10-4.

I do need to knit-pick your whistle comments just a tad. 2860, since its restoration in 1974, actually has two whistles. The original CPR whistle is located behind the stack in the bathtub housing just as it is on this model. The large whistle on the engineer's side of the boiler was added during restoration. Though I agree it would have been nice to see it added to the BC Rail 2860 version. The two whistles can be heard in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8dmfLajmtXanGQ.html The first two clips feature the 1974 "Swason" whistle whereas the clip starting at 1:20 features the original CPR "Mountain" whistle.

Did Canadian Pacific own BC Rail before CN acquired it?

The Royal Hudson is not Rapidos first steam locomotive, that would be the Stirling Single would it not?

I wanna see the real 2860 return

For a $799.99 Cad model you'd expect everything 100% to prototype

For the spruce it should have a smoke unit .

Oh is this thing Die-Cast or Plastic?

very good review reviews from people on the tube not good just guessing -years ago when I was young could buy a 3 year old caddy for the price of that loco and you could ride in it to the hobby store --==wc

I wonder why Rapido went with driving all 6 wheels with gears instead of functional rods

I really like it, but I think it' stoo expensive.

Your tractive effort test is not correct. Locos don't pull trains with their wheels spinning all the time. 'Static friction' (i.e., no wheel slippage) is far higher than 'sliding friction.' Next time, measure drawbar pull BEFORE the wheels begin to spin.

Sorry to say but cheated!! Back couple was high. You did remove 5 points on scale train bulkhead for less than that

Stuff is getting pricey, plus the fact it's not made in the US puts the Kabosh on me buying this unit. Hobby is becoming only for the rich..

What a terrible review.