I was told that in addition to the blue Santa Fe Warbonnet F7 there will also be a re-issue of the red Santa Fe Warbonnet F7, same as this one: Santa Fe F7A Diesel Lokomotive (Diesel locomotive) - GartenBahn DatenBank but with a different running number. It was supposed to be US exclusive - I didn't know it was Walthers exclusive.
According to my sources you are right in both terms, it is a USA Exclusive and a Walthers Exclusive, although I not 100% sure if it will be available to any other LGB dealers. Also it is the red Santa Fe that will be the exclusive to both, not the blue. The red Santa Fe is being made for the passenger cars that were already released earlier this year
I just confirmed, it isn't available to other LGB Dealers. What other dealers will do is buy up that custom unit, then sell them under the guise of a standard "Rare Release" so they can charge more money for it. With LGB that isn't an uncommon practice these days.
Interesting that a few US retailers do have the red LGB Santa Fe Warbonnet on their webpage and at a price quite a bit lower than the blue one. I can't post the links here I belive................
krs, you are correct, you can't post those links here, sorry. However feel free to exchange info thru PMs
Belated June News: Aristocraft has announced the 2010 Club Cars: 40' Plug-Door Boxcar (C&O) C&O “RED” Plug-Door Boxcar (Red "75th Anniversary Polk's Hobbies) C&O "BLUE" Plug-Door Boxcar (Blue "75th Anniversary Polk's Hobbies) C&O "GREEN" Plug-Door Boxcar (Green "75th" Anniversary Polk's Hobbies) C&O “SILVER” Plug-Door Boxcar (Silver "75th" Anniversary Polk's Hobbies) The Colored Boxcars above have the font in the designated Color shown as graffiti. You can view them at Aristo Craft's Website. It's the second post on the main page. The first is a video from our friends at LSOL.com from East Coast Large Scale Train Show with a clinic demonstrating the new aristocraft switch receiver and how to install the Train Engineer revolution in Non-AC/Non-DCC Units. After the first video ends it will autoplay the video playlist. It's worth a watch.
Here is the "new item 2010" list for LGB. The items marked with an asterisk are items that were announced in previous years but are only actually available in 2010. ...........oh boy........ I have the items in a nice list on a spreadsheet but for some reason I can't copy and paste that into this post on this site. When I try, nothing happens - anyone know why? The information is in three columns - ityem number, description and availability. I can paste the information into a Word document with no problem - so I converted the Word document tp a pdf file and attached the pdf file here - sorry that the pasting directly into this thread does not work.
krs, I'm not sure why a excel spread sheet would not paste here but a word document will. I will have to say however you make nice PDF files, thanx for the info.
Trainman - I copied the file into a Word document and then tried to copy the word file here, but that didn't work either - I got nothing. I think that's probably because in Word the file becomes a table and a word document table won't post. As to the pdf file, yes it did turn out nicely, but that is thanks to my computer - I just clicked "Make pdf" and it did the rest.
RLD Hobbies has a picture of their new Custom Run GP40 in Kansas City Southern Heritage Paint. The model Number is ART23590X with the X Designating the Custom Run's Numbers. No numbers have been listed other then the model shown, so I cannot confirm a multiple road number listing. They also have yet another Custom Run GP40 in Missouri, Kansas Texas Green/Yellow paint. Model Number is ART23590M with M Designating the Custom Run's number. No Numbers other then the model shown have been listed so I cannot confirm multiple Road Numbers. EDIT: RLD Hobbies Custom Run Kansas City Southern Modern Grain Hoppers have only 3 units left in stock!! If you model the KCS or are interested in these cars, you better act fast.
I wish I had known about this custom run sooner. Oh well, I placed an order on-line last night for the complete set of four road numbers but they are closed until next Monday so I can't confirm if my order will be processed. -RR
Aristocraft has posted on their front news page the images of their upcoming wave of Covered and non Covered gondolas. The Road Names are as follows: ART-41026 Wisconsin Central (Uncovered) ART-41027 Norfolk Southern (Uncovered) ART-41028 CSX (B&O) (Uncovered) ART-41029 Conrail Quality (Uncovered) ART-41030 Erie Lackawanna (Uncovered) ART-41102 New York Central (Covered)
