New Kato passenger releases

The Pine series 10-6 sleepers could show up on most trains with sleeper service at one time or another. Super Chief, Chief, Texas Chief, San Francisco Chief, Grand Canyon etc. They lasted up until Amtrak and many were picked up by Amtrak.

 

Now, now, NOT those kind of skirts. No special tools needed for that.

 

I believe it went something like this. Bruce may correct me if I am wrong. The first order of 10- 6 sleepers were delivered from Budd without them. I forget if they were specifically ordered that way or if it was the default from Budd. The Santa Fe brass saw them and had a fit. Skirt kits were ordered from Budd to mount on the delivered cars and new cars were ordered with them. It was not long though before the maintenance people were exerting pressure to remove them again and order newer cars without them. So the upshot is that there were cars that came without them, then had them, then had them removed. Some kept them from delivery until Amtrak. Others never had them. Photographic evidence from the era modeled may be required if you want to be 100% accurate. I am not that precise and just run a few with each configuration not knowing for sure which car name had them at what time. While all this was going on, skirts were randomly coming off other classes of cars too.