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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher Both the original "Highliners" and now "Intermountain" F unit shells went out onto the shelves and got very slim sales. Last time I was in my LHS it had a bunch of the Intermountains on the clearance shelf. It is just hard to justify $50 for a detailed shell when one can get the same thing with a powered unit under it for $80 or so. [/quote] I know you are correct about the slim sales of the Highliner shells, but they could be installed on many different type of running chassis. I purchased about twenty of the orginal shells simply because they were the best. After a few were completed, they matched or bested the best of my brass diesels. Most of my first Highliner shells were the plated type also and became Sant Fe models. The only advantage of the Highliners now over the Genesis line is to build a certain unit exactly like the real one at one point in time with all the detail. For instance, some of the Santa Fe units ended up with a mixture of high and low fans after rebuilding. I modeled two of the Santa Fe units with a mixture of the fans.
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