Does anyone know if any company ever produced cars for the Amtrak Tolga trains in HO scale.
i have seen these cars in ho scale on ebay several times…i do not remember who made them
I have been checking ebay for a while now and have not seen any. Does anybody know who if anybody made them?
Double-check your spelling: the trainsets are called “Talgo.”
Spanish model producer Electrotren made models of the first Amtrak Talgo trainset in HO and N. ER Models imported them before they closed shop. Eurolokshop.com might still have some, as they import other Electrotren products. I have a set, and it looks and runs really nice. I should add that the model is of the leased prototype brought to the US for Amtrak to run, and so does not have the decorative “fins” that the Cascades trainsets have.
Juan
Isn’t a tolga a Greek garment??
As to Amtrak’s Talgo set. There is a model available from a company called Electrogen, imported by ER models. Walthers did have these a year ago, perhaps they don’t at this point.
Useless trivia dept: The term “Talgo” is actually an acronym in Spanish:
Tren (train)
Articulado (articulated)
Liegero (light, as in lightweight) de
GOmez
(Senor Gomez designed the Talgo.)
No, Morticia wouldn’t let him. She gets so much fun out of watching Amtrak trying to stay on time. - a. s.
At the risk of ruining a perfectly fine bit of irony, the “GO” in Talgo is for Goicoechea Oriol, the innovator in question being Alejandro Goicoechea.
Juan
Ay yi yi . . . scooped again! There is a bunch of stuff about engineer/inventor Alejandro Goicoecha on Google – pity so much of it is in Spanish I can’t read.
Where does the “Oriol” designation come from? -al
Most likely it is his matronym, which is very commonly used in the Spanish language (often hyphenated) when referring to a man’s name (Mr. Goicoechea’s mother, in turn, would be named Sra. Oriol de Goicoechea).
Juan