We have received a small supply of Rapido Passenger Car Trucks—both 4-wheel and 6-wheel versions. Check out the “Featured Items”, when you click on “Store”:
4-wheel Outside Swinghanger-CanCar 41-BNO-11 $11.95
6-wheel Outside Swinghanger 61-NO-11 $12.95
Sets wired or ready with wire contacts for all-wheel power pickup.
NOW TAKING RESERVATIONS FOR OUR NEXT STAINLESS CAR
THE “Point”-series SLEEPERS!
Here’s an opportunity to add this important car(S) to your New Haven name train…27 different names—all available with 9 in each of the three versions: As-delivered, McGinnis w/skirts and McGinnis w/o skirts.
Click on POINT to get the reservation form, which you can scan and email or mail to the Readville Shops.
Be the first on your block to have the NHRHTA’s 2025 New Haven Calendar! Beautiful all-color New Haven RR calendar for 2025 includes 16 color prints. Inflation buster: Same price as last three years and same shipping!
Another great issue featuring the second part of a 2-part series about New Bedford—”The Whaling City”, a very important port for the New Haven RR, both for passengers and freight.
Read all about it…now available at Readville Shops!
September 14, 2024 NHRHTA TRAIN SHOW/REUNION BUFFET DINNER Includes:
"Steam Train Signature Salad"--baby field greens garnished with crumbled goat cheese, candied walnuts, and strawberries, dressed with a balsamic vinaigrette.
Penne Pasta Marinara
Red Bliss Roasted Potatoes
Green Beans Almondine
Chicken Farci--Boneless Breast stuffed with Cranberry and herbs, lightly glazed with White Wine cream sauce and garlic.
Beef Bourguignon--braised beef marinated in cabernet, shallots & peppercorns
Salmon Filet--baked salmon, with a lemon dill butter glaze
6 p.m. Cash Bar "Cocktail Hour"
7 p.m. Buffet Dinner FOLLOWED BY presentation from Jack Swanberg, noted New Haven RR author, historian and former employee.
To order Dinner tickets, click here:
You will receive a Dinner ticket in the mail for admission.
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the start-up of Rapido Trains Inc. and the 10th Anniversary of the start-up of the NHRHTA’s Readville Shops! We will be celebrating these milestones with specials during the year. Our first is called a “Combo Special”, where members will save almost $20 by purchasing any Diner + any County Car at the same time. If you were thinking of adding to your Diner fleet, but want to get a County, well here’s your chance to get both at a “Blow-out” price! These sales deals are only offered to members of the NHRHTA, so if you’re not a member…add your application to your order! You won’t regret getting all the great Shoreliners and other perks of membership.
Hover your mouse over “Events” and click on “Annual Train Show and Reunion” for all the latest details or click on this link: https://www.nhrhta.org/reunion Hope to see you there!
112-page soft-cover authored by member Marc Frattasio. Really interesting book of the history and recipes of the New Haven Railroad Dining Car Department. Over 170 b&w photos and more than 200 classic recipes from the days when the food was prepared on the dining car! FREE SHIPPING
Another great issue featuring the first part of a 2-part series about New Bedford—”The Whaling City”, a very important port for the New Haven RR, both for passengers and freight.
Read all about it…now available at Readville Shops!
Passenger Train Annual 2003 contains 70+ pages of NYNH&H pictures and history in “New Haven Passenger Powerhouse…Southern New England’s Little Giant” by Geoffrey H. Doughty. To purchase, go to “Store” and it’s right there on the “Featured Items” page !
Another great issue with complete information on the Class DEY-7 Diesel-Electric Yard Switchers, with lots of pictures !
Read all about it…now available at Readville Shops!
Another beautiful piece of work, which will get you in a good mood from January to December! Be the first on your block to get a 2024 train calendar—and New Haven at that. What could be better!
Readville Shops is now selling the recently-released County Car models from Rapido Trains. These HO models are available in several variations in the three different time periods that they operated on the New Haven: As-delivered with green stripe; McGinnis orange stripe and skirted; McGinnis orange stripe without skirts. If you didn’t reserve these cars, or want additional cars, after receiving your reservation, you can now order them from the Store. You will be “blown-away” by the seven different interiors and overall quality of these cars! All come with LED track-powered lighting and “keep-alive” capacitor. Lights can be turned on/off with the supplied “wand”.
As a special for those reading this announcement, for the next 60-days, you can use a $5 savings per car Coupon, by putting the word “COUNTY” in the “Coupon” box.
Port & Company 6-Panel, Twill Cap. Black with colorful FL9 Locomotive #2023. One-size fits all, with Velcro strap. Available in the Readville Shops Store $19.95 each.
For a limited-time only, NHRHTA members can get $5 off each cap, by typing the word MEMBER (all caps) in the “Add Coupon or Gift Card” box on the “Your cart” page.
Now that all of our customers, who reserved these cars, have received their orders, we can offer them to anyone else who would like these coaches. These cars are as beautiful as the 1st-run five years ago…except they’re even better! They have the great, pin-point axle, free-rolling trucks now, and can no longer be called “lead sleds”. They are offered in all different numbers from the original run, in the three different varieties, and you can now order on-line. Just go to the On-Line “Store” and you’ll see them as “Featured Items”. Your passengers will truly enjoy the ride!
In the latest Shoreliner, you will find a survey, asking which HO New Haven passenger car you would like to see manufactured next. You can photocopy the page, complete and send it in or you can print this copy out and send it or you can cut the page out of your Shoreliner!
You can also email it to Paul Cutler III: paulcutleriii@yahoo.com
If you are a customer, and have appreciated the cars Rapido has previously released, PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY!
This issue contains:
“Private Commuter Clubs”, which includes
“Commuter Club Car History & Operation” by experts Rich Dupuis and Mike Ribuffo
“Commuter Club Car Equipment” by expert Wayne Drummond.
A fascinating issue about this fascinating service only offered on the New Haven!
NOW AVAILABLE in our Readville Shops Store
Articles in this issue include: “The Brockton Fair”; “Brockton, Massachusetts: The Shoe City Part 2”; and “More! On Maine Potatoes”. Available from our on-line store “Readville Shops”!
The 2020 Reunion Cancelled, due to Coronovirus. Show Chairman Rick Abramson announced in June on “The Forum” that this year’s “Reunion” has been cancelled. I am finding that many of you either don’t know about the “Forum” or never go there. So, here’s the announcement again, in a difference place!
Hopefully, see you all next year at the September 11, 2021 Reunion!
