Sunset announces Amtrak Phase1

This is indeed awesome news and to have such coverage with schemes is awesome!! I'm hoping he will announce Ph IVb if enough ask for it!

At some point they'll need a cab car for the various push-pull operations and a nice F40PH.

Was there not palor cars in the Amfleet fleet?

I'm in for Phase III and would also order Phase IVb if the make them!

If the announcement is no longer there, then yes, lack of reservations means the project is DOA just like the ACE 300 and possibly the SD40-2.

 Maybe if they had offered phase IVb or done Amfleet II instead, more people would've ordered. I'd really prefer to see Superliners.

Considering these are being offered by Golden Gate Depot, I wouldn't expect to see them on the Sunset website.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

If the announcement is no longer there, then yes, lack of reservations means the project is DOA just like the ACE 300 and possibly the SD40-2.

http://www.goldengatedepot.com/reservation.html

Rusty

I would definitely be interested in IVb scheme and some Amfleet II variations! 

ecd15 posted:

Considering these are being offered by Golden Gate Depot, I wouldn't expect to see them on the Sunset website.

Well now, maybe you should:

Golden Gate Depot (GGD) was founded in 1988 to import fine scale models from various builders in Korea and China. Since 2009 GGD has been supported and operated by Sunset Models Inc. If you know the folks from Sunset, you are dealing with the same people. Sunset Models handles the brass models, GGD plastic and Aluminum cars.

Taken from:

http://www.goldengatedepot.com/index.html

Simon

Simon Winter posted:

ecd15 posted:

Considering these are being offered by Golden Gate Depot, I wouldn't expect to see them on the Sunset website.

Well now, maybe you should:

Golden Gate Depot (GGD) was founded in 1988 to import fine scale models from various builders in Korea and China. Since 2009 GGD has been supported and operated by Sunset Models Inc. If you know the folks from Sunset, you are dealing with the same people. Sunset Models handles the brass models, GGD plastic and Aluminum cars.

Taken from:

http://www.goldengatedepot.com/index.html

Simon

Well now, no I shouldn't.  They are separate companies with separate web sites.

Not opinion, fact.

The last time I talked to Scott about the Amfleet cars he was getting a good response. Amfleet I orders will be a big factor in whether to do Amfleet II cars.  Hopefully Viewliners  will follow.  Yesterday the Crescent was late so I got to see it with it's combination of Amfleet cars, Viewliner Sleepers, Viewliner Baggage and Viewliner Diner.  The first time I personally saw a Crescent with no Heritage cars, baggage or diner.

That's the other issue. If I am going to order Amtrak cars, I want to be able to do a complete long distance train so I'll need 4 coaches, a cafe, two Viewliner diners and the one of each of a baggage car and a diner which could either be Viewliner or heritage.