Does anyone seriously have any info on these? Here’s what I know:
-Announced in 2008
-ATSF, Amtrak Ph III and IV
-Not listed on their website
-Walthers and other dealers taking advance orders
Are they new toolings or TSP shells? Timeline for release?
I’m kinda looking for real answers, not pigs can fly or why don’t you google them, etc.
They are on hold for fear of Kato issuing a set in HO scale. They were going to be all new tooling, not the TSP bodies.
But with these on hold, once again no plastic HO Hi-Level lounge. Bad news for Amtrak and Santa Fe modelers [:(]
So basically yes it is a “when pigs can fly” [(-D] And you likely won’t find this info on Google. As I search all the time on these cars and haven’t found much.
Your best bet for HO Hi-Levels are still the assembled models by Intermountain or the TSP kits. No dorm or lounge though. Brass is an option, but sure is a costly one. And the best set to date (Overland) is nearly impossible to find anymore.
For a dorm on my El-Cap, I used an IHC combine and a TSP transition top. Here are some pics:
A friend who works for Con-Cor says they have arrived and are having the lighting put into them.
Wow they are actually making them? A rep from Con-Cor told me they were on hold. Well maybe the hold is off [Y][:D]
Great news [Y]
Any way to preorder a trainset direct from Con-Cor yet?
A year ago I talked to a Con-Cor rep at the Long Beach WGH show. I was a passionate collector of HO passenger trains of the '50s with no room to run these great trains on a layout. I had spent a small fortune purchasing the HO Intermountian El Capitan cars and lacked only the Longe car. I was hoping to get the lounge car in the near future. Alas, the rep told me that they had no plans to do these cars.
I wandered over to the modular layout section at the show and watched a beautiful Kato N guage El Capitan/Super Chief roll buy followed by an SP Daylight and a California Zephyr. Today, I am a very happy N guager with an operating layout and several high quality passenger trains from Kato and others.
Gerry
Sorry to disappoint, but the Con-Cor products being worked on are not the El Capitan cars.
This is OT – but back in the 1960s if you wrote to the Santa Fe they would send a beautiful color brochure that unfolded to show just about the entire El Cap train, with interior detail. It was a promotional item to encourage taking the train.
Dave Nelson