@VistaDomeScott totally agree with you wishing , “…they would have used the skirtless coach #2914 from the Penn Central set and pulled one of the cars with skirts….” . A lot of those Penn Central cars would make great Amtrak heritage cars. There’s smooth sided cars and ribbed with a smooth middle band- typical heritage cars(which makes sense considering Amtrak kept some PC cars).
I’m generally happy with what we got with this round of Amtrak Heritage cars, happy that Lionel didn’t totally just repaint their first set and modified other existing/or created new tooling for the cars that were majorly revamped. Biggest “ downsides” are 1.) the skirts on the ribbed cars 2.) if we could have just gotten one or 2 more smooth cars….3.) knowing how much I really would’ve enjoyed these if they were all prototypical. When I’m running these in different consists I can’t help but wish there were a couple more to balance out my different phases of Amfleets, Horizons, K-line Heritage cars and Superliners
