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My wife bought me the Athearn HO scale Amtrak California EMD F59PH for Christmas.  It's great.  Heavy engine, not too fast, but one of the strongest engines I have.  I didn't get any passenger cars to go with it, so I had it pulling frieght trains for a bit just to play with it.I've posted here before about looking for the Phase V superliners, and finding that the only ones made were overland brass, and I don't have $1200 to pay for toys.  So what's a guy to do?  I called con-cor, and ordered two undecorated sleepers.  They arrived quickly, and for being as old as they were, they were in pretty decent shape.  I would have like to have ordered the Walthers, but my train budget for the year (2007) is already nearly shot.  I paid 1/4 for the concors as I would have for the Walthers, and that includes the concor shipping.I have very easy access to seeing the Amtrak California cars live.  I live less than a mile from the line, and we have at least 4 trains a day that I see go by.  So taking my live pictures of the prototype train, I was able to do the models.  I had to sacrafice a set of doors, as the Phase V have two double doors on each side, and all the cars I had access to only had a single door per car.  I need to get the decal sheets that have upper and lower case letters, (I've only been able to find the uppercase), and the cars will be finished.[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/dayv27/amtk2.jpg[/img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/dayv27/amtk1.jpg[/img]and for those of you who haven't seen them, this is the prototype.  Credit to Matthew Mealer for the photograph.[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/dayv27/matthewmealer.jpg[/img]
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