Description
In 2022, Rapido Trains Inc. is delighted to announce Turbo 2.0. Finally, TurboTrain fans around the world can enjoy a model of their favorite train that runs and sounds as well as it looks. Rapido is also tooling the one car we could not afford to tool back in 2008: IC-34, the Canadian Turbo coach with additional luggage space.
The HO scale Turbo 2.0 features:
- Designed from original United Aircraft blueprints
- New, smooth-running drive system with excellent slow-speed performance
- Completely redesigned Single Axle Trucks with free rolling, needlepoint axles
- Every wheel on the train picks up power for rock-solid reliability
- Unique Canadian and American versions
- Accurate colors on Amtrak models approved by Amtrak
- Three different Power Dome Cars and six different Intermediate Cars for total accuracy
- Bright, golden-white LED headlights and redesigned, roof-mounted SMD interior lighting system
- ESU LokSound V5 decoders and high-quality speakers in each Power Dome Car
- The only accurate TurboTrain sounds recorded from the last surviving prototypes in 1982
- Will easily negotiate curves down to 18” radius
- Works on DC or DCC
- Available in 3-car and 5-car sets, with 4-car Canadian add-on sets to make the complete 9-car train
- Turbo 2.0 is not compatible with the 2008 model.
