Quote from: Webbo on June 07, 2024, 09:36:25 AM

Quote from: joe cassidy on June 06, 2024, 04:06:51 PMYou forgot to mention Canadian veterans

Yes,

Canadians were responsible for the assault on one out of the five beaches on D-Day and were involved in one hell of a lot of the subsequent fighting and dying around Caen. They were a lot more than insignificant participants in this enterprise.

I think the Rapido S160 is a pretty cool looking locomotive and I didn't find Rapido's little video to be at all offensive as this was a war locomotive after all. The trouble is that this loco type was mostly scrapped not very many years after WW2. So, it would not be representative of more than a limited time period in OO or N gauge modelling unfortunately.

Webbo.

It wasn't the video that I thought was morally repugnant, but this from the 5th June...

https://x.com/RapidoTrainsUK/status/1798308815735341481?t=nCEA3NPovGljE97s8og1ow&s=19

Yes, their advertising is pretty mediocre, but, as a collector of commemoration wagons, I haven't a major problem..

Can't say I find it offensive.  I've no interest in the products though.

I'm well informed on the Normandy campaign, having read a lot of books about it. Maybe the knowledge I have of the absolute horrors that many soldiers, sailor & airmen faced & endured through that part of the war is why I find this kind of marketing so abhorrent.

 

I travelled behind one on the West Somerset Railway about 3 years ago, (It was on loan from Churnet Valley) so feasibly could be used on heritage layouts.

Chris

Thread locked at request of OP