NS Full Dome Delaware

Any extra NS cars?

I have 5 coming as that is what I had to guarantee Scott to get them done.  I had five people commit but I think some may have also ordered from Scott so I think I will have one or two.  You can email me at LMP@CENTRALVA.NET and I will let you know.

Ken

My Amtrak should be here is a couple of weeks!

I did realize he did Amtrak or are you having one custom painted?

I order an Amtrak full dome as was offered on the GGD website. My cc got dinged a week before Christmas so I am waiting to see what I got for the money.

For the price these cars cost, there's no way I would consider repainting it. One is better off repainting the Lionel unit instead. Note that I am 3 rail.

The full domes are brass wraps not cast so they should be beauties.

Would love to see a full review of the latest GGD releases, who's up for it?

Watching Bama-Georgia but saw some pics on 3RS Forum so copied them.  Check out the original post on other forum.

Do they come with foam cleaning pads to keep the track clean ans you run them????????

Bob

No, that is the padding that comes between the body and trucks to prevent damage during shipment.

I knew that.

Got the Amtrak “Great Dome” passenger car by UPS today. Being a brass car, it is noticeably heavier than the aluminum Santa Fe Hi-level cars but having the ball bearing journals, the cars roll smoothly, finding low spots on my table, even when left undisturbed, like my freight cars with Protocraft 100-ton trucks.

This is my second Golden Gate Depot passenger car & I must say that the passenger figures in my cars are dressed rather too nicely. Having dropped off friends & family at local Amtrak stations, I don’t remember seeing passengers dressed so well.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen

Any markers installed on the end bulkheads? That's what the picture shows in the announcement.

Congrats, VNG! They are beauts!

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Any markers installed on the end bulkheads? That's what the picture shows in the announcement.

If you were looking for marker lights at the ends of the Amtrak car, mine didn’t have them but I had come across photos of the prototype car with & without these.

If Scott would have kept the modern paint scheme, shown in the initial announcement, then these marker lights would have been mandatory. But I remember seeing online photos on this car from the 70’s without these lights but some from the late 90’s looked like they had these lights.

I would have preferred the as-announced newer paint scheme but it was not a deal-breaker for me. I just love double-decker cars. Maybe some or all of the other 5 hobbyists who convinced Scott to choose the older paint scheme to match the previous Amtrak offerings from Golden Gate Depot preferred this version without marker lights.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen

Sorry folks, with all the eyes on these designs marker lights never came up in the corrections.

Scott Mann

Beautiful!! Scott you did it again. I love what you do for us. 

Naveen, is your bottom interior correct by being even and straight? Mine arrived last night. I inspected the car this morning and left a message with GGD voice mail. My bottom interior is bowed up along with one of the roller bearings is not staying in it's side frame. 

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Naveen, is your bottom interior correct by being even and straight? Mine arrived last night. I inspected the car this morning and left a message with GGD voice mail. My bottom interior is bowed up along with one of the roller bearings is not staying in it's side frame. 

Mine is the 2-rail version & the bearings stay in the trucks & the lower level floor appears flat. This car met my expectations & I am happy with it.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen