RDUNNlll,
One car I left out of my posting on Amtrak was the 85ft Postal Cars with the Center Shutter Door. I wonder if there would be enough interest in this car, along with the 60ft Gunderson Express Cars, and the MHCs, plus the full length and shorter Heritage Baggage Cars. These are the cars left behind by Overland who will not produce them, and they certainly won't be done by Brands A, M, or L. Now it is true that MTH did and still does produce a MHC, but along with their P42, they are a poor stand-in for the scale models made by OMI. A better quality scale model is called for, but, again, that's just my opinion and, remember, I am in therapy! In truth, my interests would be attracted more by the Gunderson Car and the Full Length Mail Cars. There were two phases for the Gunderson cars. Phase One cars had a peaked roof in Phases lVa, lVb, and V paint, while Phase Two cars had a flat roof and were seen in Phase 5 paint, and just plain platinum (call it Phase Vl?). I believe the Gunderson cars have gone on to private owners, but I'm not sure about that. They certainly were almost brand spanking new when retired/abandoned by Amtrak. I would hate to think that they were scrapped.....and now that I think about it, there were some PFE R70-25s rebuilt/refurbished as express reefers. Now just think about the Mid-West/Western passenger trains we could build if we had such options. In my fantasy world of model railroading, Amtrak does this sort of hauling on it's intercity routes, although in reality, at the time, UP and BNSF vigorously objected to such activity and, then, Amtrak President Gunn agreed. Result: Lots of cool cars off to the Rip Track.
