almost done...two moves left...one to a temporary place while searching for our forever home.

buy trains from u.s.a. not communist china

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HO Hobbyist The RS11 is awesome! Club member has one, well 3. He bought silent and equipped with Soundtraxx2, baddd ass and the interior light gauges really add to it.

@@markiewodi3371 cool! I plan on buying one and maybe after I've gotten some other layout wants I'll get a second!

HO Hobbyist Ya the Rapido’s are not cheap anyway you look at em. I got a pair of HO Draper Tapers and I’m pretty happy with em. I also have the mid train dome and two of the older “continental cars” and those are simply fantastic. There is just way too much cool stuff out there nowadays and my wallet can’t keep up! 😀

@@markiewodi3371 yep! And as a devoted LV modeler I'm in the unfortunate situation of being broke just as companies release LV models. Now I've got a long list of Lehigh Valley equipment I hope to buy, including an RS-11, but no resources to do it with.

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it's part of the body of the locomotive following the design of the real thing.

The step in the hood was a primary spotting feature of a GE Dash-7 from an earlier Universal series. For instance, a U23B had no step in the hood, a B23-7 had the step.

I had the same problem before the decoder fried itself; had to pay $35 to send it to Canada back to Rapido for repair. Haven't received it back yet. Had same poor performance issues with their RDC's. I'm not impressed with Rapido's China factory quality control.

Yep. All the boxes have Santa Fe engines.

Santa Fe was on the brain when I saw the photo on the box

I get all my Rapido stuff form railwaycityhobbies.com. They're in Canada, and with the exchange rate, they're not much more expensive than an Athearn or Atlas higher end stuff. Just a thought..

@@iflyrattraps Nice, i will check them out thanks!

Totally agree. I've seen nothing but raves and raves about this model but it's good, not great. Same price as Gensis and Scaletrains but not up to their detail on the shells. Where are the see through grills? ST GE engines have them. To my eyes, I pre-ordered 2 the shell is not any better detailed then the old Atlas GE engines from 20+ years ago. I will give them credit for having a lot of details below the side sills. Scaletrains includes a keep-a-live device on the board of their DCC equipped and none DCC equipped units. I saw where someone post how great Rapido's service was. One of my engines is a Santa Fe. The directions did not explain how to operate the flashing cab beacon. Emailed Rapido and requested information on how to do this. Two months later still waiting on their reply. Luckily I saw another review and discovered it's activated by F17. I read and bought into all the hype regarding this model, wanted it to be a homerun and that would lead them to expanding their GE offerings, possible even a nice new C30-7/C36-7. But at this point I do not plan on purchasing any of their future offerings. Again this is a good product, not great they should be slightly less then what Gensis and Scaletrains are listing for.