Rapid Transit Trains

04/21/2026

The 1909 Trailer Car - requested and delivered!
Offered in both a painted and rolling ready & a DIY kit. HO scale only for the moment!

03/27/2026

New products online today!
We are introducing the 1909 HO power unit DIY kit and Open Vestibule Gates on our website today.
Take a look!

03/23/2026

If you haven't seen this already, we put together a quick video about our 1909 Hi Volt. We are going to put together more soon, so look for some kit building guides and announcements of any new products.

Rapid Transit Trains is introducing our 1909 Hi Volt Model Trains!Currently in HO scale and N scale. Check out our Vintage New York City Model Trains! ...

03/16/2026

Putting together some HO cars.

03/07/2026

Small update!

Things have been crazy at Rapid Transit Trains lately, so apologies for delays on new products. As a small win, we have added a category on the webpage that will come and go called "The Scrap Yard." There you will find slightly wonky prints, some of our testing items, and other random bits and bobs that you might find interesting.

02/17/2026

Rapid Transit friends!
We thought that we would offer up a service on a trial basis, a test run if you will.
So, if you have a cad file you hope to print, but might need a bit of help getting to the quality level you're looking for, or if you just want a print done by a trusted source, send us an email [email protected]
Let us know the type of help you're looking for and we'll get back to you with a quote. It doesn't even have to be train related!

02/14/2026

Happy Valentine's day! For all our train lovers, we have some updates.

On the 1909 front O scale front, we have sorted out our coupler spacing (thank for all the input.) The model needs a few details tightened up, but we are looking at releasing a kit in early March.

For those of you who are tired of us talking about the 1909, good news! We have acquired more photos and are rapidly approaching having a R4 model ready to go. At the moment we think we will have non powered units on that in HO, late march.

For your viewing enjoyment, the photo is a selection of what it looks like when we are working on couplers!

02/06/2026

O scale friends!
Do we think 3/8 in is close enough of a gap between the cars or should we shoot for 1/8 in?
Your chance to weigh in before we lock in the model!

02/05/2026

Working out some O scale details for the 1909.

Our HO and Nscale non powered units are available on our website as always!

01/24/2026

In our research we occasionally come across some gems, and thought we would share this one with you all. The New York New York Transit Museum is a wonderful resource, and if you are in town, you should defiantly check it out.

12/31/2025

2025 marked our first official year in business, so thank you all for your support this year!
Looking forwards, we hope to have more offerings in both scale and design. So our scrappy team of two will continue to do our best to source quality parts and a high standard of production for our enthusiastic modeling community.