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Yes, that WAS a lot of money for that set! In the original 1949 version, Lionel had just come out with the Santa Fe F3 2333s, which were featured in the film. However, Lionel had no matching cars to go with the new diesels. So as I recall, they used the older Pennsylvania cars with the logo “The Red Rocket,” or some such. Looked kind of funny.

That’s another reason I liked the updated version with David James Elliot and Cynthia Gibb. At least, the Amtrak F3 diesels matched the gleaming Amtrak aluminum cars. 😉

Passenger cars were standard Madison/Irvington/Manhattan cars - they had Red Rocket Express lettering along the top of the cars, the Santa Fe F units were also decorated with Red Rocket Express (looks like the logo was taped onto the engines). You can get the movie for under $10 at Amazon - look for 4 Film Favorites - Classic Holiday Volume 2.

Here's a clip of the title sequence - nice shots of the train on an impressive movie set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT4W6bi1Mo

Posting here about the movie: https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...y-affair-film-on-tmc

I remember CTT had an article about a set of cars being unearthed - maybe someone can look up which issue it was...

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