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Post by oldgrog on Feb 13, 2024 5:44:17 GMT -5
Suggestions for future production :-
DELAWARE & HUDSON The beautiful Alco PA’s are crying out for coaches to make The Adirondak. Baggage, coach, diner, dome in blue/yellow. (The odd Amtrak coach is permitted in the consist.)
AMTRAK Early era trains can be made from a rainbow of contributing railroads’ stock, but the early livery Amtrak only offers us a baggage car. A particular puzzle is how the diner appears to have got through to the later livery without passing via the early one ! A full range of cars in the first livery would fill a yawning gap, diner the first priority.
ROCK ISLAND Obviously, AZL will be making silver lightweight cars to go with the E7A/B set in the 2nd run. Maybe a Rocket set ?
MISSOURI PACIFIC The coaches ran out very quickly first time around, and extras were promised, but are yet to materialise. A diner would also be welcome. ( I know the Colorado Eagle in particular soon deleted sleepers and diner from the consist, which makes the need for coaches all the more urgent, but a diner was present initially.) With PA, E8, and E7 to choose from, several types of train could be made if only enough of the coaches were available.
RIO GRANDE Again, the Alco PA/PB sets are pining for lightweights - in the same colours as the heavyweights.
SANTA FE Baggage and Valley series sleepers are OK in their way, but coaches are again notable by their absence.
Other modellers will doubtless add their favourites to this list.
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Post by cjhayes2424 on Feb 13, 2024 10:40:17 GMT -5
ATSF Budd Fluted 52 Seat Coach - needed! Also, PS Smooth Side 56 Seat Coach for CNW, NP, GN, CBQ... It'd be a good start
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Post by sjl on Feb 13, 2024 10:51:14 GMT -5
MoPac diner for sure. Penn baggage car. D&H as you say - sleepers for the Montreal Limited. Also something to go with those great Seaboard E7s.
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Post by sjl on Feb 13, 2024 10:57:10 GMT -5
Oh, and something to go with all those NH locos too.
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Post by oldgrog on Feb 13, 2024 11:06:16 GMT -5
I forgot :- CANADIAN PACIFIC silver coaches with maroon letter boards, similar to Hans’ beloved Espee. And what goes with the glorious FRISCO racehorse E8s ?
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Post by Scott on Feb 13, 2024 11:07:50 GMT -5
ATSF Budd Fluted 52 Seat Coach - needed! Also, PS Smooth Side 56 Seat Coach for CNW, NP, GN, CBQ... It'd be a good start NO! NO! No! No. No. It’s Chesapeake and Ohio Budd fluted 52-seat coach. PS smoothside 56-seat coach—It’s Baltimore and Ohio PS smoothside 56-seat coach. I know. Got seven-wide windows. Seems that’s all Baltimore and Ohio had for a while. Southwest of Ivy City Yard, Washington, DC, 1967, Baltimore and Ohio PS smoothside 56-seat coach in the foreground—Photo attached. We should, however, leave alone Rob and Hans ’cause they’re probably trying to do justice to an east coast name train with an AZL Broadway Limited. Attachments:
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Post by dazed on Feb 13, 2024 12:04:37 GMT -5
Two numbers of the El Cap transition coaches in Amtrak PhIII or PhIV would let us do Amtrak's "Heartland Flyer" train. (Basically, a P42-Transition Coach-Superliner Coach-Transition Coach-P42...shortest two locomotive train ever)
Would still like to get the baggage car in *actual* PhIII versus the Phase I/II that was labeled PhIII by AZL.
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Post by cwrr on Feb 13, 2024 20:05:02 GMT -5
Well, I know it'll be rare, but anything built by the Milwaukee Road!
Atleast a Super Dome? Other roads had them too.
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Post by oldgrog on Mar 23, 2024 10:18:19 GMT -5
Ah, Milwaukee ! We have armor yellow coaches, diners and sleepers in C&NW for “City of …..” trains up to October 1955. After the UP switched their streamliners/domeliners to the Milwaukee for the Omaha- Chicago trip, there are no equivalents to replace them behind the E9 locos. Some Milwaukee coaches were distinct with their portholes, but I understand some were transferred from CNW, so a rerun of the current AZL lightweights with Milwaukee on the letterboard would suit ?
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Post by Edward on Mar 24, 2024 6:49:28 GMT -5
I could use some Union Pacific dome cars, I somehow missed out on the first run.
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Post by Kez on Mar 24, 2024 10:48:44 GMT -5
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Post by scanrail on Mar 24, 2024 11:28:30 GMT -5
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Post by tjdreams on Mar 24, 2024 13:26:30 GMT -5
I would love to have a Texas Special Passenger set in Z scale. As a kid growing up in the late 60's / early 70's I had the Lionel O gauge Texas Special freight set with the launching satellite cars But i always wanted the Texas Special passenger set to go with it.
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Post by Edward on Mar 25, 2024 7:48:45 GMT -5
Unfortunately, those are not the domes I am looking for. I should have been more clear. I’ll just grab a City of Los Angeles and sell off the remaining cars I don’t need. I have been searching for years now with no luck.
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Post by Edward on Mar 28, 2024 22:04:05 GMT -5
It would be great to see a run of the AT&SF “El Capitan” Lounge cars painted in Amtrak Pacific Parlour colors. They had 4 different paint schemes over the years.
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