AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 7:46:40 GMT -5 Commodore and cwrr like this

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AMERICAN Z LINE
May 2017 New Releases – Part 2

Budd – RDCs Southern Pacific:

For April, we have Southern Pacific RDCs! These appear in the early version paint scheme. AZL has previously released the SP RCS in a late version. The late version was released in 2011 and quickly sold out.

62206-1 SP Budd RDC 10 Early version

17,600 Gallon Tank Cars – UTLX - Thiele!:

Runner pack:
903820-1 UTLX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (4 pack) 24760, 24843, 24815, 24842 Thiele

Singles:
913820-1 UTLX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (Single) 24847 Thiele
913820-2 UTLX 17600 Gallon Tank Car (Single) 24747 Thiele

CB&Q Heavy-weight passenger cars:

The Burlington heavy-weights are here! This run includes Pullman Green cars and silver cars as per Burlington’s practice!

71018-1 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper ANACONDA Silver
71018-2 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper MAXIMILIAN Silver
71018-3 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper WADENA Silver
71018-6 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper FONTENELLE Pullman Green
71018-7 PULLMAN 12-1 Pullman Sleeper DAVENPORT Pullman Green

71218-1 PULLMAN 8-1-2 Pullman Sleeper CARTER LAKE Pullman Green
71218-2 PULLMAN 8-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LINOMA LAKE Pullman Green
71218-7 BURLINGTON 8-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LARIAT CREST Silver
71218-8 BURLINGTON 8-1-2 Pullman Sleeper LARIAT RANGE Silver
71218-9 PULLMAN 8-1-2 Pullman Sleeper GULL LAKE Silver

71418-1 BURLINGTON 28-1 Parlor 209 Silver

71518-1 BURLINGTON 36 Seat Diner 170 Silver
71518-2 BURLINGTON 36 Seat Diner 171 Silver

71618-1 BURLINGTON Baggage RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY CB&Q 1534 Pullman Green
71618-2 BURLINGTON Baggage RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY CB&Q 1564 Pullman Green

71718-0 BURLINGTON Coach Pullman Green

71818-1 BURLINGTON Observation GENERAL JOHN A. HULEN Silver
71818-2 BURLINGTON Observation BLACKHAWK Pullman Green

71918-1 BURLINGTON RPO UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE CB&Q 2337 Silver
71918-2 BURLINGTON RPO UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE CB&Q 1922 Pullman Green

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

www.americanzline.com

www.azldirect.com

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ciccino Engineer Posts: 164	AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 8:55:43 GMT -5 mrja likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by ciccino on May 24, 2017 8:55:43 GMT -5 Which one of the currently available AZL locomotives would be a fine motive power for these Burlington pullman cars? Maybe DRGW or Santa Fe F3A-B?

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 9:34:10 GMT -5 mrja and ciccino like this

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May 24, 2017 8:55:43 GMT -5 ciccino said:

Which one of the currently available AZL locomotives would be a fine motive power for these Burlington pullman cars? Maybe DRGW or Santa Fe F3A-B?

A Burlington set of F3's would be nice, or even the E9's in Burlington paint scheme, but AZL offers neither, why is that?

Either of those in Burlington's silver would go nicely......

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 10:20:08 GMT -5 ciccino likes this

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Post by dave on May 24, 2017 10:20:08 GMT -5

Maybe the Mikado could pull the green cars. That is my dilemma; I have a Mikado; however, I like the silver cars better but nothing to pull them with. I would prefer a single E8 over a pair of F3s. I did a little looking today and found a couple of consists of green and silver cars but the silver cars are lightweight cars.

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 11:33:28 GMT -5 cwrr and ciccino like this

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May 24, 2017 10:20:08 GMT -5 dave said:

Maybe the Mikado could pull the green cars. That is my dilemma; I have a Mikado; however, I like the silver cars better but nothing to pull them with. I would prefer a single E8 over a pair of F3s. I did a little looking today and found a couple of consists of green and silver cars but the silver cars are lightweight cars.

The Burlington Mikado is the perfect pulling power for these Heavyweight cars. www.azldirect.com/azl-locomotives/mikado/50109-2

Both silver and green cars work as the sliver cars were introduced before the Mikado was retired. The Green cars have a unique Futura like font for their text, while the silver cars have Burlington's Zephyr font. They really look good with mixed colors!

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 11:33:54 GMT -5 cwrr and ciccino like this

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Post by davestubbs on May 24, 2017 11:33:54 GMT -5

Not sure if it would be accurate but a repaint of the NYC marklin engine would look sweet.

CB&Q 4-6-4 Class S-4-A 4000 AEOLUS

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3692164

sorry at work can't post pictures

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 11:40:52 GMT -5

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A few additional release notes:

The SP RDC has the early paint job on the nose (different from the first release) as well as the improved coupler. This new coupler is based on the design from the P42, and has a long arm and a flat metal leaf spring on the rear. The hook is also a deeper cut. This allows the body mounted RDC coupler to swing in a very wide arc without uncoupling or derailing trailing cars. The SP RDC also features number boards that are not seen on other models of the RDC.

The Thiele tank cars were mainly used for clay slurry transportation, which is used by paper mills to produce glossy paper.

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 11:52:28 GMT -5 ciccino likes this

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Post by markm on May 24, 2017 11:52:28 GMT -5

Hey Rob(K), you've been putting in too many long hours, it's May not April and I'm not sure what an SP RCS is.

I was surprised that the SP doesn't have silver trucks. I assume this is part of the truck problems mention in a previous post. Do you know if the old silver trucks can be swapped in? Also it's missing a set of number boards. Not a big deal, I have spares. SP used only one of the cabs, but the NWP used both end for their Redwood service.

The Burlington cars fit in on the Exposition Flyer with DRGW F3s or MTL WP early F7s (which actually look more like WP's F3s). Unfortunately not much available in DRGW or WP heavyweights to go with them. If you have the Märklin California Zephyr set, it comes with an appropriate Burlington F unit and some of the Budd cars ran on the late era Expo.

Mark

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AZL May 2017 New Items Part 2 May 24, 2017 12:12:54 GMT -5

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May 24, 2017 11:40:52 GMT -5 Rob Albritton said:

A few additional release notes:

The SP RDC has the early paint job on the nose (different from the first release)

It's the paint job that ran it's entire life on the SP and until 1964 on the NWP. I prefer to think of the bloody nose of the previous release as the "late" scheme.

This allows the body mounted RDC coupler to swing in a very wide arc without uncoupling or derailing trailing cars.

Now I can model train 241 (the Sierra) which would pull 1 or 2 Olive Green or Two-tone Grey mail storage cars out of Sacramento for connections to the Klamath.

The SP RDC also features number boards that are not seen on other models of the RDC.

Great...I think. Better detail, but now I don't have the spare parts to add the rear number boards to the new release.

SP-10 didn't lose it the second set of number boards until the 1960 accident that claimed the "rear" cab.

Mark

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