Mark--
Even though I grew up in SP territory (Donner Pass), I pretty much defer to you on your knowledge of the passenger trains. So my question is--was the post-WWII San Joaquin Daylight largely made up of the ORIGINAL pre-war Coast Daylight cars (with the addition of the home-made 3/4 dome car, of course) or did SP order cars specifically for the train? I've always been a little confused on that issue. I know that one company is promising the pre-WWII Coast Daylight and another is promising a post-WWII version. Of course, logically, neither would ever see service on my Yuba River Sub, even though I give SP trackage rights, but I'd be kind of leaning toward the San Joaquin consist, since I have a couple of MT's that could certainly use a passenger train.
Just curious.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
If memory serves, the manufacturers aren't all to produce the same version of the trains. There is the early version, lettered "Southern Pacific Lines" and later version lettered "Southern Pacific."
Different SP-Pacific Lines routes had different Daylight trains. There was the Coast, both Morning and Noon versions (LA-Frisco) and the ancillary Oakland-San Jose route, the San Joaquin (LA-Oakland) and the ancillary Sacramento-Lathrop route, and the Shasta Daylight (Oakland-Portland). Also, SP subsidiaries Texas & New Orleans and St. Louis-Southerwestern had their own versions.
Mark
It is about time accurate (not just Daylight-painted, non-SP-prototype cars) non-brass models of the most beautiful passenger train in the world will be available.
COMPETITION keeps the price down.
Frankly, I'm not holding my breath that ANY of them will have a "Daylight" train soon, or if at all. BLI and Genesis have been promising the train since I had hair and it was a different color, LOL! The N-scalers finally have their Kato (I saw one at my LHS and it's a really handsome offering), but we HO'ers are still in a Holding Pattern. Granted, it's a 'niche' train, but it's an extremely FAMOUS one, so if just one mfgr. comes out with it, I think it will be popular enough to sell well. And of course, it's a unique train--you just can't slap Daylight colors on a standard streamlined coach and say "Here's your Daylight"--, you have to do tooling for articulated cars, a 3-unit articulated diner--even the windows aren't like anyone elses windows.
I'm not going to hold my breath over this--4 mfgrs promising the train.
But then (he said with a sigh), the market got flooded with Big Boys--talk about your 'niche' locomotive--so there's no telling.