Just bought my second C car and an additional two B cars. So now I have DC and DCC units and they are absolute beauties. Hoping that Rapido models the Boston T….original fleet of cars. Please oh please!!!!
Nice, Nice, Nice...better than those CRUDE ones many were forced to contend with with those UNREALISTIC Walther's BART CARS...and in their advertisements they tried to get you to buy more..."Real BART TRAINS run up to 10 Cars!"
@Harveycartoonlvr11 I enjoyed the walthers version and created many videos with them. I can say technology then compared to now has made the Rapido BART Trains phenomenally above expectation.
@fredashay Each car comes with a plastic coupler in a sealed bag with road numbers. Make sure the copper wire section is facing up when inserting. After you hear the "click" the cars are ready to go. I have a video coming soon to show the process.
@@blakrootz Thanks! After I posted that comment, I found the parts in the little baggie and figured it out 😛 I wonder if those square boxes are compatible with NEM couplers so I could just use Kadee couplers? That would make everything so much easier!
Ran the set and well, you know the rest, love it. Question: is it me or is coupling these cars a pain? Would also like to get spare couplers but can't find the things on the Rapido site.
@@rraddena yes, coupling seems almost like they will break. You may have to call Rapido Trains tech support and order them that way. Thanks for viewing.
@JdcorpUSA yes both A cars need to be on the same track to program to the number you want. B cars are not powered....they will trail along like passenger cars to a steam engine. C cars will have to been done the same way as the A Cars; however, you will have to change one of them to be programmed in "reverse" so that it will work like this video.
@ the video is awesome, btw. It’s still too advanced for me to run A and C together as a fleet. The reverse “thing” makes sense but I don’t know how to program it. For now, I’ll run A separate from C. This is my time to run HO. Although I started buying HO 2 years ago, I was still running O gauge.
@JdcorpUSA if you belong to a train club in your area they will help you program it as you need. If you are in the Bay Area, come to Carquinez Model Railroad in Crockett. One of the members there can assist, but call first to be sure someone is in the building.
@@CustomOffroadTrucks the sounds may be a bit low to hear, but Rapido copied as much as allowed for sound files to make it as prototypical as possible. I will see what I can do to increase the sound for future videos.
Seems to me like the sounds come from the C cars' Westinghouse DC Chopper motors, and would be accurate for the original A and B cars. The sounds in the video you linked come from the rebuilt A2 and B2 cars' Adtranz IGBT VVVF motors.
The sounds Rapido used for these models (the buzzing sounds - which is actually the DC chopper) are how the A and B (and C) cars sounded as built and delivered. The high pitched sounds the A and B cars made in later years was the result of the overhaul they received in the 1990’s or 2000’s and is due to the DC to AC traction motor inverters. The C cars that made it to the end of legacy fleet service never got upgraded in this way. I agree that it’s a bummer that Rapido didn’t mimic how the cars sounded in the years prior to their retirement. They could have used the DC shopper sound on the C cars, and the inverter sounds on the A and B.
Very well done, my good sir.
@@ojsefg thank you
I will probably watch this and the other video you posted numerous times. These look so good! I wish I had the money for a set of my own.
@DNP_10 thanks for viewing. I have one more coming soon. Stay tuned.
Just bought my second C car and an additional two B cars. So now I have DC and DCC units and they are absolute beauties. Hoping that Rapido models the Boston T….original fleet of cars. Please oh please!!!!
Nice, Nice, Nice...better than those CRUDE ones many were forced to contend with with those UNREALISTIC Walther's BART CARS...and in their advertisements they tried to get you to buy more..."Real BART TRAINS run up to 10 Cars!"
@Harveycartoonlvr11 I enjoyed the walthers version and created many videos with them. I can say technology then compared to now has made the Rapido BART Trains phenomenally above expectation.
Awesome! I love it!
@@jovo6230 thanks
I just received two of these. But how do I couple them together?
@fredashay Each car comes with a plastic coupler in a sealed bag with road numbers. Make sure the copper wire section is facing up when inserting. After you hear the "click" the cars are ready to go. I have a video coming soon to show the process.
@@blakrootz Thanks! After I posted that comment, I found the parts in the little baggie and figured it out 😛
I wonder if those square boxes are compatible with NEM couplers so I could just use Kadee couplers? That would make everything so much easier!
Ran the set and well, you know the rest, love it. Question: is it me or is coupling these cars a pain? Would also like to get spare couplers but can't find the things on the Rapido site.
@@rraddena yes, coupling seems almost like they will break. You may have to call Rapido Trains tech support and order them that way. Thanks for viewing.
If you want to changed the default dcc loco #3 to another ##, do you need both A cars on the tracks and the B cars as well at the same time?
@JdcorpUSA yes both A cars need to be on the same track to program to the number you want.
B cars are not powered....they will trail along like passenger cars to a steam engine.
C cars will have to been done the same way as the A Cars; however, you will have to change one of them to be programmed in "reverse" so that it will work like this video.
@ the video is awesome, btw. It’s still too advanced for me to run A and C together as a fleet. The reverse “thing” makes sense but I don’t know how to program it. For now, I’ll run A separate from C. This is my time to run HO. Although I started buying HO 2 years ago, I was still running O gauge.
@JdcorpUSA if you belong to a train club in your area they will help you program it as you need.
If you are in the Bay Area, come to Carquinez Model Railroad in Crockett. One of the members there can assist, but call first to be sure someone is in the building.
Would a rectifier, a voltage control chip like a 7805 , and some caps get rid of the lights flickering? Or 7803 for 3 volt leds?
@JosephLorentzen actually, it's my videocamera that is outdated and giving the illusion of lights flickering. Sorry for the confusion.
@@blakrootz Actually, DCC is pulse DC, so your camera is capturing it.
Awesome, but the sound isn't remotely close to the real deal. Massive bummer. ruclips.net/video/96VUrzQH95g/видео.html
@@CustomOffroadTrucks the sounds may be a bit low to hear, but Rapido copied as much as allowed for sound files to make it as prototypical as possible. I will see what I can do to increase the sound for future videos.
Seems to me like the sounds come from the C cars' Westinghouse DC Chopper motors, and would be accurate for the original A and B cars. The sounds in the video you linked come from the rebuilt A2 and B2 cars' Adtranz IGBT VVVF motors.
@@blakrootz Interesting. Thanks for your response.
The sounds Rapido used for these models (the buzzing sounds - which is actually the DC chopper) are how the A and B (and C) cars sounded as built and delivered. The high pitched sounds the A and B cars made in later years was the result of the overhaul they received in the 1990’s or 2000’s and is due to the DC to AC traction motor inverters. The C cars that made it to the end of legacy fleet service never got upgraded in this way.
I agree that it’s a bummer that Rapido didn’t mimic how the cars sounded in the years prior to their retirement. They could have used the DC shopper sound on the C cars, and the inverter sounds on the A and B.
@@YoLikeRyder I hope someone makes a sound file. Can you record this anywhere else these days?