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Many customers these days are making an effort to buy Canadian, where possible, due to problems with our neighbour to the south. As a reminder, we do supply products from many Canadian companies and publishers, such as: B.R.M.N.A. Black Cat Publishing Bytown Railway Society Canadian Branchline Miniatures CDS Lettering Ltd CNR Historical Association Juneco Scale Models Kaslo Shops Michael Leduc Miniatures By Eric Monashee Laser Engineering Nickel Belt Rails Osborn Model Kits Railfare DC Book …

Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase, other than the few Digitrax items noted earlier. My Digitrax stock is going fast and I have no immediate plan to re-order. SoundTraxx is also going fast and I am considering reordering, but this will be subject to the 25% Canadian surtax.

Almost everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase. Any recent additions were shipped to my distributors before the tariff took effect. The only exceptions are for a few Digitrax items. Here, I have increased the price accordingly but added a note in the description.

Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase. Any recent additions were shipped to me before the tariff took effect. However, we've reached a point where just about everything originating in the US is, or will be, subject to the Canadian 25% surtax, unless a distributor still has old stock (going fast). As before, if originating in China, items may be subject to price increases imposed by the US manufacturer, unless they decide to absorb …

A news item relating to new products announced in the latest Rapido News has been posted to the archive.

First, the good news. Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is not subject to any further price increase. The bad news is that items not in stock, i.e backorders, pre-orders, both current and future, are subject to either the Canadian 25% surtax, if originating in the US, or to price increases imposed by the US manufacturer, if originating in China. I still have a good stock of many popular items. My distributors also hold good stock of some lines, in which case the pre-tariff pri …

Despite the fact that the company is announcing and releasing many new locomotives and freight cars that are accurate Canadian representations (many being the TrueLine favourites from the past) there has been almost zero interest in the last couple of years. As a result I am no longer listing new announcements in the Store for online ordering. Keeping such listing up-to-date - often for years - requires too much work for little return. I will continue to post news items on the new announcements …

I'll knock 10% (13% for e-transfer) off all HO or N turnouts currently in stock, if requested. Just order in your preferred manner - combining with other items to reduce shipping costs.

Almost every day now, with mail being very slow, I have a customer asking where their shipment is and can they have tracking details. Understandable, of course, except that when I check I usually find that their order was shipped Lettermail. There is no tracking with Lettermail. I put stamps on it, pop it in the mail slot and hope for the best. It will almost certainly get to you - eventually. If not - I will share the loss with you. If you want it faster, require tracking (and insurance) it is …

This issue's announcements include: HO; the ALCo C-424 locomotive in CP (large Multimark), the Gunderson "Multi-Max" auto rack in CPKC, the ex-TrueLine steel "Minibox" boxcar in three CP schemes (stepped, script and "Spans the World..." plus PGE and BCOL (m.o.w.), the 1993 Ford Explorer in BCOL (BC Rail) and ONT (chevron). N; the ALCo C-424 locomotive in CP (red/"CP Rail"), the 1993 Ford Explorer in BCOL (BC Rail) and ONT (chevron). For full details see the catalogue here. Note that the pre-orde …