The Most Detailed Mechanical Reefer You'll Ever See!

Our HO scale Santa Fe RR56, 60 and 61 Mechanical Reefers have arrived and they're on their way to YOU! Jordan is here for an unboxing and overview, and you'll be blown away!
We still have limited stock available, so order yours while you still can! See your dealer or order direct!
rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/freight-car/atsf-reefer.html
Music by Bensound

[@everettthepetractionguy4222]

Magnificent! I LOVE the detail! Great looking reefer car! Beautifully done! Keep bringing out your MAGNIFICENT models... especially HO scale models. 👍😉

[@rapidotrains]

Thank you!

[@Apache-fm8tc]

The only thing missing is doors that open .

[@rapidotrains]

Well the hatches are sort of like doors!

[@yrunaked4]

Ahhh back in the days when real freon was made. beautiful model guys, Cheers Rob

[@rapidotrains]

Beautiful ozone-depleting freon!

[@509brown]

You folks are amazing! Can't wait to hear the sound version!

[@rapidotrains]

Thanks! We should have the revised sound chips mid-winter.

[@MrPedroramos8911]

Another winner from Rapido Trains

[@rapidotrains]

Thank you!

[@MrBillCNW]

You guys sure make some beautiful products keep up the good work. 😁

[@rapidotrains]

Thank you, we love what we do!

[@robertchaparro5058]

I received five Rr-56 cars yesterday. As some of you know, this is a project I initiated with Rapido several years ago, receiving valuable assistance from John B. Moore, Greg Silva, and Keith Jordan, all of whom were a wealth of knowledge, resources and suggestions, and were quick to respond to Rapido's questions and needs. Later on, Steve Sandifer and John Signor also contributed to this project.

[@rapidotrains]

We appreciate all of the support we get for various projects. We couldn't do half of them without people like you!

[@JamesRegiersModels]

Those look incredible. Great job, guys!

[@rapidotrains]

Thanks so much!

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

That's the thing nowadays everything comes out super detailed Straight Out of the Box. In the old days you got a car that was close and then you put the extra details on it like the KD couplers. You would do that with locomotives as well to make them more accurately simulate the Prototype. Just like putting together a kit it was part of the fun. Now everything just comes out of a box from China that's very expensive. A t h e a r n train had to discontinue their box kits because the average American can't read a simple two-sided page of instructions. Isn't that a sorry indication of the state that we are in today. Not only are people too lazy to put a kid together they might have to actually pick up a tool and might have to Google how to use it but they also can't read a simple sheet of instructions on a shake the Box kit. And you look at some of the articles in the old model railroaders where they take three grains of wood and they cut everything out with razor knives because there was nothing at a hobby shop because there were no hobby shops. You look at the amount of time it took to say make a passenger car. You look at the amount of work that they would put into that thing it was sheer amazing but they enjoyed every minute of what they were doing and they were in no hurry to get the car done fast it was done right. And even after their constructor's death they find new life on other people's railroads. I know people who just buy new trains cuz they don't want to buy somebody some dead guys train to the side I have dead people's motorcycles I don't care. When I die my train will be disbursed on other people's layouts just like my motorcycles will be in other people's garages for them to enjoy until they die and they go on to new owners again. It's like when you see all the old standard gauge stuff at Big Shows. Anyway happy railroading.

[@rapidotrains]

All fair points! We're at a point though where people have less and less time available for their hobbies, so many opt to trade time for money in order to get something running relatively quickly. Luckily we still have the Accurails of the world for those who enjoy building kits.

[@shnorth888]

Wow the detail is amazing on these. Another great rapido model.

[@rapidotrains]

👍

[@hypergolic8468]

If Rapido keep incrementing the level of detail each iteration in the way they are, in the next five years we'll need to employ a maintenance team to run model trains 😂😂 "Aren't you running anything tonight?" No four wagons developed flat spots when the brakes came on in a tunnel and we'd not seen it... :) Keep it up guys!

[@rapidotrains]

What other manufacturer would go to such lengths as to build in prototypical mechanical problems? 🤣

[@hypergolic8468]

@@rapidotrains No other manufacturer has a "Jason" 🤣🤣. If you model a British Rail class 17 the great news is, it doesn't actually need to move, just a hint of smoke from under the engine covers will make it realistic... Seriously, as a team you've really changed the market for the better. I'm going to admit I'm out the hobby at the moment, but when I get back in I'm going to have a couple of TurboTrains to run. Admittedly my wife has no knowledge of "plan rapido" yet...😁😁

[@richardnelson-ux1zz]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@scottleidenberger4401]

Great looking model as usual !

[@rapidotrains]

Many thanks!

[@roberttrains8696]

Good video Guys thanks for sharing. Robert

[@rapidotrains]

Thanks for watching!

[@mels1811]

Thank you for another brilliant video

[@rapidotrains]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@contracostaexpert]

I was thinking about those sound units and wondering about the power draw of having string of these lashed with locos with all the bells and whistles and freds etc. Will these sound units only have one option for sound as in one per car or a function where one car can audio 3 cars like one car placed between two non sound cars. (or an option for 2, one sound one non sound)

[@irenecraggs6123]

thats cool got to get me a couple of those nice

[@rapidotrains]

Get them while you can!

[@Blue_Dingo]

I went to the website to buy a couple cars, but I can not find any with SFRP reporting marks. I model 1964...

[@maybesomeday2596]

Question: when’s the most detailed mechanical reefer we’ll ever hear gonna happen…still waiting for the sound module

[@rapidotrains]

The factory is ironing out some issues with the sound boards before they ship. We're hoping to get an update on these soon.

[@sparky107107]

man those are nice. I hate these videos, I watch this and you say they are in stores now, so I go right over to Otter Valley's website and place an order.. Thanks Jordan

[@rapidotrains]

Our plan has come to fruition...

[@packerphan66]

I didn’t know these lasted that long? Was the darker orange a later scheme or a dirty as delivered yellow? Also when is the 2nd run of RS-11s due?

[@rapidotrains]

Dirty Yellow! And the RS-11s are in production now with an expected delivery in Q2 of 2023.

[@bin6514]

Siick

[@rapidotrains]

We're assuming you mean the good sick, like the kids say!

[@bin6514]

@@rapidotrains of course!

[@richardnelson-ux1zz]

Santafe all the way does anyone mske a navjo box csr

[@gilbertporter4992]

I have to ask, is the 61, the most later version?

[@rapidotrains]

Correct. We have more info on our website: rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/freight-car/atsf-reefer.html

[@maybesomeday2596]

Unboxed…new-age term to replace “opened up”…but why?

[@rapidotrains]

It's what the kids say now. We're cutting edge!

[@thetaxman5302]

@@rapidotrains wait till i get a hold of your financials 😆

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

None of my ho cars made any noises at all. In O gauge three rail when you have a lot of those type of cars they draw a horrendous amount of current taking away from the amount of current that actually runs the train. It's like when you add up all of the lights and sounds of a big passenger train and then you go flat out and it's going 20 miles an hour because all the juice is going to the lights and sound effects. Frankly all that noise gets tiring after a while the train to make enough noise just while they're running themselves. Electronics are very expensive and unreliable in the long run. My old HO locomotives would run 30 40 years with just a change of brushes when they were worn out and fresh Grease. You look at some of the old metal locomotive kits and they have bushings and bearings on all of the axles and rolling surfaces which are actually replaceable when you wear them down after a million miles on your train layout. Those locomotives like their counterparts were built to last forever it's a shame that the prototypes are not still here.

[@rapidotrains]

We get that sound isn't for everyone, which is why we made the sound module optional. But today's modern locomotives with full sound and LED lighting draw a fraction of the amperage as those of the past.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

@@rapidotrains yeah but I was talking about having like a whole refrigerator train with every car making generator noises. I don't know how much your current they would take if you had a unit train or refrigerator cars and all of them had the sound effects on. I remember when LEDs first came out for the use on toy trains and scale railroad back in the late sixties and seventies. When locomotives for all metal you didn't care about it having a light bulb but when they went to plastic you could have a case of the light bulb melting into the shell. Plus LEDs last forever. I remember when rapido only made engage trains and the universal engage coupler outside of a KD was called a Rapido coupler.