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Most of the Arnold rapido passenger car line was based on European prototype cars. Some of these cars were very short two axle cars and were manufactured to scale length. Other cars were deliberately shorter than the prototype because of the sharp curved tracks of the early Arnold train line. By 1967, however, a move was made toward the manufacture of scale-length cars and close-to-scale-length cars. No. 0372 (pictured above) is an example of their early efforts. At the same time, Arnold introduced two wider radii of track to accomodate these longer cars.
There were a few American prototype cars available in both Santa Fe and Baltimore & Ohio livery; there would be more after the Revell relationship began.
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