Scale Model Railroading

From Rapido:

TORONTO – Rapido Trains Inc. is delighted to announce that Bill Schneider will be joining the company’s growing product development department starting on May 1st of this year.

Schneider has been involved in the retail, wholesale and manufacturing aspects of model railroading since 1982. For the last 15 years, Schneider has been responsible for product development at Branchline Trains, including the ground-breaking heavyweight passenger cars introduced by Branchline in December 2003 and the critically-acclaimed line of Blueprint and Yardmaster freight car kits.

“Having Bill on board is a real step forward for Rapido,” says company president, Jason Shron. “We have had numerous requests for more American prototypes and Bill’s role with Rapido is to develop new 100% American models that will fill some big gaps in the US model railroad marketplace. The combination of Bill’s knowledge and experience with Rapido’s reputation for unprecedented detail will mean more choice for American prototype modelers.”

Schneider is an active HO scale prototype modeler. His New York, Ontario and Western double-deck layout has been featured in Great Model Railroads, Railroad Model Craftsman, Prototype Railroad Modeling, and Designing and Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads by Tony Koester (Kalmbach Books, 2008).

Bill Schneider lives in Connecticut with his wife, Theresa, and daughters Kayleigh and Laura. When he is not working on his model railroad, Schneider can be found fixing up his 120-year-old farmhouse or playing with his 1973 Mustang Convertible. Rapido is trying to convince him to trade the latter for a full-size LRC locomotive.