The SP “Lark” Passenger Car Consist… in Brass, Anyone??

David - That is fair. -Tiest

Various articulated cars (Articulated kitchen-in-the-middle car is a favorite.), mid-car bar bar car, a rotating chair car, observation, coaches, and a combine, with a distinctive warm color paint scheme make for a design that is unique. (It’ll be lottsa fun to see AZL’s design choices for the Daylight. The cut [decisions] for both the COLA and Super Chief was nothing short of brilliant.) “Daylight has beautiful passenger cars.” On that I am in agreement with Tiest.

On the other hand, and not necessarily in brass, the scale needs to tip (double entendre) to Eastern roads. In this respect I am in agreement with Tjdreams. “B&O’s Royal Blue.” What an unbelievably good call! It’s plated steam locomotive design seems to complement what seems to be its west coast counterpart: The Daylight. Sure, both are a good candidate for brass (Rerun of a brass Daylight—Who knows?). Here, however, I am super-biased. I would gawk and gobble an AZL B&O Royal Blue.

Heavyweight baggage-dormitory-lounge head end cars of the B&O were visually appealing. On them was the grey window band which terminated with a rounded end. That was exciting for me ’cause it meant the rest of the train is coming. The Royal Blue, The National Limited, and The Columbian each had such a head end car with that round-ended window band. You sometimes see them in pictures of the tracks outside Grand Central Station in old Chicago.

“Short line” candidates is something, too, raised by Tjdreams. I am in favor of new special tooling for lesser known streamliners such as The Laurentian or The Crusader.

Speaking of special tooling, AZL could launch a new pool of lightweight passenger cars. Of particular interest is the Pullman-Standard 56-seat coach which was one used by many. More than one AZLer has mentioned the 56-seat model and other widely-used types, Pullman-Standard, or otherwise, elsewhere on the forum.

Forgive the digression, but I hope to see a permanent pool of AZL F7s with matching caboose. This is something brought to light with the discussion on the recent thread “Any Upcoming Alaska Railroad?” posted by Tmoneyduffak.

Not to loose sight of the argument presented by Tiest, I do not know how AZL assesses interest or demand. Also, in keeping with Tiest’s line of thought, some type of poll is in order. Moreover, I am for polls plural. An AZL customer base demographic poll was mentioned on the forum. To that we may wish to include, what would you like to see in brass?

Scott

Different liveries on existing tooling should not be TOO much a problem. For me that would be Monon F-3's. Pleasent dreams, mitch!

Ok. I will issue another poll later in the week to see what passenger car consist would be most appropriated by the forum members.
Given we already have such a fantastic consist for the SP, another one was a bit selfish on my part...
Keep the suggestions coming in this thread so I combine this all together.

Happy Monday all!
-Tiest

Here I'll help you by posting a picture of what you're describing. 

No need for brass, by the way. Just need F40PH's. The Denver to Winter Park Ski Train actually used heavyweights for lots of years before changing to the newer, pretty unusual cars made by Hawker Siddeley.



Picture linked from this page about it:
railfan.com/remembering-the-rio-grande-ski-train/