At 4:05 PM eastern time... an email from Intermountain Railway Co indicates the tooling for the Superdome passenger car is underway by Centralia Car Shops. I'm not too sure whether the road names and numbers are correct for these planned releases but the fact that they are being announced is great news. http://www.intermountain-railway.co...ploads/2015/12/Superdome-Passenger-Cars-1.jpg http://www.intermountain-railway.co...ploads/2015/12/Superdome-Passenger-Cars-2.jpg They also announced some corrugated coaches (re-runs??) http://www.intermountain-railway.com/modelersclub/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Corrugated-Coaches.jpg
There's a Page #2 as well: http://www.intermountain-railway.co...ploads/2015/12/Superdome-Passenger-Cars-2.jpg
LOL... I noticed that right after posting and went back to correct it and added the corrugated coach page as well. I was too enthusiastic about posting the news Hopefully CCS will do more of the domed coaches and domed sleepers needed to complete the other road name consists they have been making. Particularly for the North Coast Limited (hint... hint).
Lets hope that the models have flush windows... if not it just won't look right. Besides, for the price Rapido includes this as part of the model so it would only be reasonable to expect it from IM/Centralia as well.
I would hang on to them until the actual CCS models are on the hobby store shelves... never know how long they will actually take to deliver these. The announcement said FALL- 2016... but we know that these timetables are not set in stone... more like quicksand. How about showing us some photos of those Railway Classics!
The corrugated coaches are just a rerun of roadnames... based on the C&O prototype, it has been around for a while. And the N&W coaches are fooby, not being accurate for NKP/N&W coaches... and only one received tuscan red on the letterboard, all the others that were repainted received Pevler blue. The ACL coaches were also NKP so they are foobies as well. That said, its good that they are at least available... it gives people options that are worth having.
Still waiting for the SP 3/4 domes, but I'm definately in for the Big Sky Blue and possibly the UP yellow Milwaukee Road version.
The five lower windows seem to indicate the PS cars built for the Milwaukee road rather than the Budd cars built for the Great Northern. This would mean that the Milwaukee Road, MILW/UP, Amtrak Phase I, CN, VIA, and NCDOT schemes are correct, while the GN and Amtrak Fall Foliage aren't. I don't know about the rest. Adrian
Still worlds ahead of the only other non-brass car.........the Bachmann full dome! These are "must haves" for post 1950 Milwaukee Road....now we just need a skytop observation . And pray to the train gods these actually get produced........in less than the 4 years it took to get the Milw. FP7s . I'm in for both Milw versions.
I ordered the Yellowhead (CN), nice surprise to get these. I have a CN/IC business train and this is going in it!
They are the same as the old ROWA/MRC/Con Cor coaches that came out around 1970. I used them to model my first Sunset Limited. I swapped out the roofs with Budd Slumbercoach roofs to come closer to the prototype.
