Now and again, a model release comes along that changes the look of a whole roster. Like the B36-7 a few years ago, the new Rapido C36-7 follows the same pattern. It's a beautiful new model!
These were delivered to Conrail from GE in 1984, and were amongst the last Dash-7s built. Conrail ended up rostering just 25 of them, but they were very common on the Chicago Line as maintenance for years was based at Selkirk.
Weathering coming soon on this, and even more fun is that Rapido is doing a release video on it too, using my family as the (hokey) actors. It will be a lot of fun, and I will share the link here when it is posted! In the mean time, this is just yet another great example of a wonderful development in the hobby, one that I hope can continue. The OC just got a bit more prototypical!
Conrail had some very distinctive power, and it was a great time to be a railfan of Big Blue in the 1980s and 1990s. Long live Conrail!
ReplyDeleteWe inherited a few of these on BC Rail at the very end of its corporate existence. Endless ground relays, ringing alarm bells, rainfall through holes in the cab roof, and often the old CR cab signal system would leave the unit in emergency after a simple air test. Good times with patched together worn-out power. If you wanted to double the Salmon Valley or Septimus hills, bring a CR 6600 along with you and enjoy the fun in the snow . However, it is a very handsome HO model. Thankfully we don't get cold and wet on our basement railroads! I can smile about the 6600's now and all the "character" I built as a conductor restarting them on the fly at 35MPH.
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