What sells in O is not necessarily what sells in S. What sells to the Highrail folks is not necessarily what sells to the scale folks. HOWEVER, there is a lot of crossover in there that will sell. If you look at the O crowd, and the number of manufacturers who made and sold out of SP Daylight Northerns, I think it is prudent to say that a Daylight Northern in S would sell very well IF it were close enough to scale to be easily modified to scale. It could even sell to "modern" folks as it is prototypically run on modern railroads! Hmm, same thing could be said of the NW J engine, AND the UP 4014--and to an extent, the UP 844.
But, as I said, they missed the boat without doing some accessories, and I like Rusty's suggestion of the golden PAs and cars. There's one very popular accessory they still haven't done; the mail pickup car, which could easily be done with their streamline baggage car shell.
Now why the Pacific sets are listed for $1,400+ and the Polar Express sets are $400+ is beyond me; how do you justify the $1K price difference? Perhaps they hope to amortize the entire tooling costs in one run. . . . .
Of course, we are talking about a diminishing marketplace too. . . .
