selector When sumbuddy wills five or six millions of smackers to one or more of the importers, maybe somodderbuddy with little business sense will flood the market with stuff and hope it sells.
When sumbuddy wills five or six millions of smackers to one or more of the importers, maybe somodderbuddy with little business sense will flood the market with stuff and hope it sells.
Well maybe so, but back in the day companies made trains first, then sold them to people, not the other way around......
Sheldon
The choice of how to sell diesels as far as what's available singly and what's only available in multiple groups does seem odd sometimes. I was disappointed when Athearn came out with Genesis FP's in the original Soo Line maroon scheme, and FP-7 #2500 was only available paired with an F7B. Why? Because Soo 2500 was restored a few years ago, and is used at the Lake Superior RR museum in Duluth MN on their dinner train and excursions trips on their line along Lake Superior - either by itself, or paired with their Erie Mining F-9 or their DMIR SD-18. Some modellers modelling 'today' could therefore still use 2500 realistically. Plus of course the Soo often used a single FP-7 on their Twin Cities - Duluth / Superior passenger trains, so it would fit in a 1950's-60's layout (without a B unit) too.
I really don´t understand why Walthers is releasing a Super Chief again where all cars are identical to the previous run except the blunt end observation car. And I don´t understand why it´s worth to release the whole train again just to model a version which was very short lived (these blunt end observations only ran between 1956 and 1958) and by far not as popular as the previous version with the fancier boat tail observations.
Instead, they rather should have paid homage to the De Luxe which was by far the most luxurious heavyweight train ever (operating between 1911 and 1917). It´s totally time for a Walthers heavyweight train anyway in my opinion. And if it has to be Santa Fe, then they should really do the De Luxe. But I guess we won´t see that all too soon. First they will release the Texas Chief, Chief and Grand Canyon Limited before they eventually switch to other roads or Santa Fe heavyweight trains. I´m slowly getting tired of those stainless steel Santa Fe streamliners...