Boy this is a hot / well liked topic. Deservedly so. I believe the “shorties” are going to be a nice success for Scott. It should help him exceed his minimum numbers to go forward - and IMHO then some.
Back in the day of Broadway and Daylight first runs, the offerings were parsed out in smaller groupings. Broadway came as 3 four car subsets (don’t remember any extras as 1 subset was sleepers, 2nd was coaches - if I remember correctly) and Daylight 2 five car sets (1 unarticulated, 1 articulated) plus extras. These smaller groupings allowed me entry into really nice quality cars. I chose what would be core groupings - of course those with observation car. I was able to add an articulated 2 car for the Daylight. Regrettably the next big groupings disappeared before I could catch them.
The new scale offerings now are fixed at eight. The Daylight and 20th extras are great but Broadway not. Prototypical or not, more sleeper options would be nice for Broadway !!!
Scott. Please color match with 1st run colors. There are some of us that will want to add to what we have from first runs !!!! Especially the Daylights. They are what I see as having a bit muted look - not a stark bright.
Scott. Be kind with packaging for those going the route of 6 car sets. Those boxes for the 5 car sets are extremely unwieldy. I’m sure something better can be worked out
