AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 6:42:39 GMT -5

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AMERICAN Z LINE
March 2017 New Releases – Part 2

Budd – RDCs – They are back!

After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the return of the Budd RDCs, and in all new road names! The first new road of the series is Trinity Railway Express. We have two road numbers available.

62218-1 TRWX Budd RDC 2005
62218-2 TRWX Budd RDC 2012

DODX – 89’ Flat Cars with M2A2s loads From Z-Panzer!

Six trailer hitches included. Three in the raised position and three in the lowered position. M2A2s by Andrew Hart of Z-Panzer. They are highly detailed. This is a limited edition release.

911023-1 DODX 89' Flat 41064 2x M2A2s loads
911023-2 DODX 89' Flat 41076 2x M2A2s loads

17,600 Gallon Tank Cars – Procor – Molten Sulphur!:

Now available are PROX cars lettered for Procor’s Molten Sulphur loads. A runner pack and two singles are available.

Runner pack:
903818-1 PROX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (4 pack) 60153, 60157, 60172, 62120 Procor (Molten Sulphur)

Singles:
913818-1 PROX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (Single) 62119 Procor (Molten Sulphur)
913818-2 PROX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (Single) 62125 Procor (Molten Sulphur)

Union Pacific Heavy-weight passenger cars – new releases:

The Union Pacific heavy-weight passenger cars are back! We have all new car names and versions available including observation coaches and RPOs! We expect these to be very popular.

71008-4 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper HUTCHINSON
71008-5 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper LOMBARD
71008-6 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper PELHAM

71108-3 PULLMAN 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LAKE CAILLOU
71108-4 PULLMAN 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LAKE JAMES
71108-5 PULLMAN 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LAKE HAZEN
71108-6 PULLMAN 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LAKE CLARK

71408-3 UNION PACIFIC 28-1 Parlor 1524
71408-4 UNION PACIFIC 28-1 Parlor 1525
71408-5 UNION PACIFIC 28-1 Parlor 1527

71508-3 UNION PACIFIC 36 Seat Diner 316
71508-4 UNION PACIFIC 36 Seat Diner 323

71608-4 UNION PACIFIC Baggage RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 3051
71608-5 UNION PACIFIC Baggage RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 3075
71608-6 UNION PACIFIC Baggage RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 3069

71708-0 UNION PACIFIC Paired Window Coach

71808-1 UNION PACIFIC Observation 1569
71808-2 PULLMAN Observation GOLDEN SPRINGS

71908-1 UNION PACIFIC RPO UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE 2069
71908-2 UNION PACIFIC RPO UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE 2065
71908-3 UNION PACIFIC RPO UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE 2070

See the American Z Line sites for more information on these and other AZL products.

www.americanzline.com

www.azldirect.com

Rob Kluz
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mgatdog Superintendent Posts: 837	AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 8:18:55 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mgatdog on Mar 15, 2017 8:18:55 GMT -5 Bummer ! Nice stuff. Still no update on ES44AC if there still coming next month!

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 10:27:58 GMT -5

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Mar 15, 2017 6:42:39 GMT -5 ztrack said:

Budd – RDCs – They are back!

After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the return of the Budd RDCs, and in all new road names! The first new road of the series is Trinity Railway Express. We have two road numbers available.

62218-1 TRWX Budd RDC 2005
62218-2 TRWX Budd RDC 2012

Man, those are pretty. Couldn't have come at a worse time, but I'll have to find a way.

Doug A.

emaley Fireman Posts: 72	AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 10:33:58 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by emaley on Mar 15, 2017 10:33:58 GMT -5 I already ordered mine. I had been holding cash in reserve for just such an opportunity. Yay. Trey

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 11:04:31 GMT -5

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Rob or Hans,

On the new RDC, has anything changed in the chassis, motor, electronics, etc.? I noticed the list price went up about $60 so am just curious. Also, regarding running qualities, how do the new ones run vs. the old ones. Thanks for bringing these back.

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 11:23:24 GMT -5

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Mar 15, 2017 10:33:58 GMT -5 emaley said:

I already ordered mine. I had been holding cash in reserve for just such an opportunity. Yay.

Trey

I did too up until about 2 days ago. Had a couple of urgent non-train items clean out my PayPal account but figured I'd have time to restock. It's just how things go with me.

Someone hurry up and buy these: www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/azl-trans-corp-of-america-furx-ic-ps2-cd-4-pack.103914 ... it will help immensely.

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 12:51:04 GMT -5 atw, dazed, and 1 more like this

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Mar 15, 2017 11:04:31 GMT -5 dave said:

Rob or Hans,

On the new RDC, has anything changed in the chassis, motor, electronics, etc.? I noticed the list price went up about $60 so am just curious. Also, regarding running qualities, how do the new ones run vs. the old ones. Thanks for bringing these back.

New truck design - long story here, but running should be the same if not a little better.

The big deal is the coupler. We took the coupler from the P42 and applied the same technology to the RDC, so new tooling for that too. The coupler is body mounted, but swings quite a bit, so you should have no problem coupling multiple RDC units together. (this was a - er - challenge with the old stiff coupler) you can also couple rolling stock to the RDC without them being hurled off the rails at the first hint of a curve.

Motor is our standard 7mm 12 volt motor. Separate LED PCB at each end of the car for really nice head and tail lights. Trucks have wired leads instead of wipers for awesome electrical pick up. Same with the motor: solder wired to the PCB. The PCB is the same size as aour drop in decoder, so you can convert this to DCC easily - but you will need to solder the leads to the board. Not too hard.

Price is due to our costs going up. Not much we can do about that.

Last Edit: Mar 15, 2017 12:57:35 GMT -5 by Rob Albritton

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 15:43:34 GMT -5

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Post by markm on Mar 15, 2017 15:43:34 GMT -5

Mar 15, 2017 12:51:04 GMT -5 Rob Albritton said:

New truck design - long story here, but running should be the same if not a little better.

The big deal is the coupler. We took the coupler from the P42 and applied the same technology to the RDC, so new tooling for that too. The coupler is body mounted, but swings quite a bit, so you should have no problem coupling multiple RDC units together. (this was a - er - challenge with the old stiff coupler) you can also couple rolling stock to the RDC without them being hurled off the rails at the first hint of a curve.

Motor is our standard 7mm 12 volt motor. Separate LED PCB at each end of the car for really nice head and tail lights. Trucks have wired leads instead of wipers for awesome electrical pick up. Same with the motor: solder wired to the PCB. The PCB is the same size as aour drop in decoder, so you can convert this to DCC easily - but you will need to solder the leads to the board. Not too hard.

Price is due to our costs going up. Not much we can do about that.

You should have rolled the product number, this is really a new and improved RDC!

Mark

danny goodman Guest	AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 23:06:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by danny goodman on Mar 15, 2017 23:06:32 GMT -5 I'm still confused about heavyweight prototype consists. What types of locomotives would go with the UP heavyweights from this release? Any diesels, or only Mikado/Challenger steam types?

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 15, 2017 23:28:48 GMT -5

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Post by davestubbs on Mar 15, 2017 23:28:48 GMT -5

Seems like most UP heavyweights were retired around 1960 according to this page

utahrails.net/pass/named-heavyweight-sleepers.php

E8 were built from 1949-1954 according to wiki

utahrails.net/pass/named-heavyweight-sleepers.php

would have to guess pulling them with the E8's would be correct

cwrr Tycoon Building the Milwaukee Road in Western Washington! Posts: 1,658	AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 16, 2017 0:40:00 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by cwrr on Mar 16, 2017 0:40:00 GMT -5 UP F3's would look great hauling these!!
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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 16, 2017 10:49:44 GMT -5

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Post by markm on Mar 16, 2017 10:49:44 GMT -5

There are quite a few possibilities depending on what and when you want to model. The UP yellow is their streamliner color. In the early 1950s a number of heavyweight cars were repainted from two-tone grey and Challenger grey to augment capacity and for use on secondary routes and trains. I'm not aware of any all yellow heavyweight trains, but the possibility exists.

On the UP, passenger trains were generally pulled by "E" units, although there are references to steam-powered City of St. Louis trains with mixed heavyweight and lightweight cars as late as 1953. The engines were 4-8-4s.
The Utahn route ran E8s with mostly heavyweights into the mid-1950s.

If you want to go beyond the UP, heavyweights from both UP & SP were common on the on the San Francisco Overland in the 1950s and The City of San Francisco in the 1960s. The SP power could be E9s, PAs, F7s and even SDs.

The particular AZL choices for the sleepers ran well into the 1960s.

Hope this helps,

Mark

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 16, 2017 10:52:15 GMT -5

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Post by dazed on Mar 16, 2017 10:52:15 GMT -5

Whew! After a tense 24 hours, I managed to sell off enough items to get my order placed for both numbers of the TRE RDC's. So, now I can ENJOY this announcement...YAY!!!!! Thank you AZL for doing these...if you can't tell from my profile pic, these are pretty important to my Z-scale existence. :-)

Last Edit: Mar 16, 2017 10:53:03 GMT -5 by dazed

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 18, 2017 8:10:24 GMT -5

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Post by ztrack on Mar 18, 2017 8:10:24 GMT -5

I have had a few offline enquireies about previous AZL armor releases and their availability. I have checked a few dealers and both M B Klein and Z Scale Monster show that they still have stock of the 89' flats with the green and sand yellow M577 personnel carriers and M548 track cargo carriers available. The flats with the yellow bulldozers are also in stock with these dealers.

Rob

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AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2 Mar 18, 2017 23:35:32 GMT -5 via mobile

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DODX – 89’ Flat Cars with M2A2s loads From Z-Panzer!

Read more: azlforum.com/thread/869/azl-march-2017-new-items#ixzz4bk5Mr6ff

I really wanted to purchase a couple of these but you changed the scheme. Previously the sand colored military vehicles were on rttx yellow flat cars. I have already collected several sand and yellow cars and would like to add the M2A2 to my consist but those rusty brown cars will be out of place! Will you be making another release in the future with the M2A2 on yellow RTTX cars?

AZL March 2017 New Items - Part 2

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Post by mgatdog on Mar 15, 2017 8:18:55 GMT -5

Post by dazed on Mar 15, 2017 10:27:58 GMT -5

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Post by dave on Mar 15, 2017 11:04:31 GMT -5

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Post by Rob Albritton on Mar 15, 2017 12:51:04 GMT -5

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Post by danny goodman on Mar 15, 2017 23:06:32 GMT -5

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Post by cwrr on Mar 16, 2017 0:40:00 GMT -5

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Post by bloodynose on Mar 18, 2017 23:35:32 GMT -5