@Brad Kowal posted:It is true that the Baggage and Transition cars were ex ATSF, however they were used on a daily basis with the Superliner I cars until the Superliner II cars were built, which included the Transition Sleepers. Anybody modeling the phase II and phase IV paint schemes will need the baggage and transition car. I personally have a baggage car and transition car that I can use. Both would need new decals for phase II paint. Many other people will have a more difficult time with this. Since the El Cap car were previously produced, I would think the cost to produce these two cars would be less than usual. If not, well then we most likely have the first time an incomplete train is offered. Not something to be mad about,
Am I the only one interested in these two cars with paint schemes that match the Superliners?
Actually, this happened with the GGD 1955 Great Northern Empire Builder. GGD made some cars from the 1947-1951 Empire Builder and some cars from the 1955 Empire Builder. I don't know why. The cars that were made were correct individually, but were never used on the same prototype train at the same time, so a complete train was not offered for the 1955 Empire Builder, even though it was marketed as such by GGD. These issues were pointed out in this forum at the time of the offering, but they were not fixed. I ended up piecing together some fairly accurate K-Line scale cars and an MTH baggage car with the GGD cars that are correct for the 1955 Empire Builder (even though some of the names and numbers of the GGD cars are not correct for 1955) to fill in for the missing GGD cars and get a fairly complete 1955 Empire Builder train (the color matches are close enough for me).
That said, I hope that everyone gets what they want out of this set, within reason. It seems to me that this set will have quite a bit of interest, and should probably be moved ahead of other offerings in the project schedule.
