Do someone know when Athearn will relaese the 1/87th scale Daylight cars?
Will there also articulated cars and wich year will it be? I have a lot of questions but who knows some answers.
Happy model railroading in 2010
It is a pitty that Ayhearn is no longer producing the kits.
It was fun to built and was good priced and easy to repair or do maintance.
Now we pay a lot more for some trains manufacture in China, the passenger cars you can not open without doing damage to the roof or side(Walthers passenger cars) if you want to put lights in these cars or damaging the locomotive shell and details(Life Like) or you can not open it at all( Rivarossi) to put a DCC decoder in.
Also I do not understand why Walthers is not releasing passenger car lights with led’s.
Actually Athern issued a set of Daylight Passenger cars in their Blue Box series years ago. The cars were painted reasonably well but otherwise were not accurate. They were more like the postwar Santa Fe Chief cars and the dome car was all wrong for a Daylight consist. Nowdays you can find these cars available at train shows, usually for $6 to $10 earch. Running behind more up-to-date Daylight engines they track well and look OK and perhaps they can tide you over until you can acquire more accurate renditions at a much higher cost.
I’m only going to adress this, since the rest feels like useuless nagging, I’ve not seen any of the above to be true.
Yes, Athearn is doing the entire train. I wanna say it’s the 55 train, but I’m not for sure. Unfortunately, it took them a year to get the first car deigned and sold. the 77ft chair was as far as I know one of the crs of the Daylight. So, 12 cars, a year for each, possibly two for the articulateds, we could see this train by my 40th Birthday…
I never saw this Daylight car in the store. Sold out??
Maybe it is nagging but I think it is essential that you could open a car without damaging it.
But if someone knows who you can open a Walthers passenger car without damaging the sides and/or roof, I am happy tho hear from him the way how it can be done without damaging.
And for the model of an Italian MU unit of Rivarossi(this is made by HORNBY) there is no way to open it(and in the catalog and on the web site this model is listed as DCC ready with a 8 pin socket) even a store owner who is selling DCC products and is placing DCC decoders for customers in their trains can not find out how to open it.
Actually, you pop open a Walther passenger car(streamline or heavyweight) with a ‘twist’ - no damage to the locking tabs in the roof. A Walthers rep demonstrated it to me at Trainfest a few years ago. Just hold the car with one hand on each end and ‘twist’ it either way - it will pop open. Even the 60’ cars will do this( I opened up a coach last night to paint the seats ‘plush’ green). I will add passengers when my Walthers order arrives.
IIRC, the Walthers cars have a roof with clear plastic sides with tabs that snap down to hold the roof in place…kinda like the old Rivarossi ones. Sometimes with a screwdriver you can press a couple of the tabs up from the bottom to get them started. Once you have the roof off, you can remove the ends of the tabs. There’s enough friction to hold the roof in place, but you can then easily remove it if you need to.
Heck, even the 2000 re-release of Oscar and Piker will do the twist. It’s just more nerve-wracking as the entire truck assembly tries to contort in the process.
Maybe so Larry but when I think if SP daylight the other color scheme comes to mind just as with a GS4 at the head and not a pair of FA FB diesels even though they were for real. Kinda like saying a CD is the same thing as an LP album. FYI for you younger folks out there it’s how we old people used to listen to music back in the hayday of the SP daylight. Just got too cumbersome dragging the extension cord and head phones with you every where you went…[:D]
Mayhaps I need to be cleaer, or am mistaken, but my understanding is that Athearn released the 77ftrs in the GS, and two tone to “test the waters” and that thsi car would be released in the SP Daylight colors when pigs flew, or they finally assembled the rest of the Daylight train, whichever came second. Likely, the latter.
Mayhaps I need to be cleaer, or am mistaken, but my understanding is that Athearn released the 77ftrs in the GS, and two tone to “test the waters” and that thsi car would be released in the SP Daylight colors when pigs flew, or they finally assembled the rest of the Daylight train, whichever came second. Likely, the latter.