Why hasn’t this been brought up here yet ? I am waiting for this eagerly , and surprised that its only been mentioned by CC , the Atlas forum , and the Railwire . Why no mention here ? I know its new news , but isn’t this the place to get informed of such things . Well … maybe we just did .
There was a post about this announcement before the break. It’s over on page 7 at this moment.
I posted the announcement e-mail several weeks ago, before Con-Cor made the formal announcement as to which train would it be?
Whoops…sorry about that river_eagle, didn’t mean to slight your contribution to the forum. Just joined up a few days ago, so I’m sure I missed your post.[D)]
Let me ask a stupid question - I’m very good at it!! Why would anyone, N-Scaler or not, be interested in an AeroTrain. Here’s a stupider(!!) question; Mr C is probably going to have to sell at least a couple of thousand units (combined HO and N) to break even on his tooling and production costs - are two thousand of you people going to buy one of these things??? Here’s stupid-question-number-three; Why???
Why , because I like it , and it fits my era . You sound like , “If its not what I want , then its stupid” . I am sure that if I looked at what you think is logical , I would find myself saying something like , " Thats a lot of money spent for something that I have little interest in " . But I wouldn’t call that stupid . Its just your desires being for filled . The Aerotrain will sell well . A couple thousand , I don’t think the Zephyr sold that many , but it will sell as well or better than that Zephyr IMO .
After seeing the “real deal”, I thought it was great! I think it is an interesting piece of railroading history and would like to have one myself.
No problem,
I found four reasons (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, and Union Pacific) from 1955-1957 to be interested in the Aerotrain at => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrain_(GM) => and one more reason (Rock Island) from 1957-1966 for the final destination of the two prototypes.
There is also a great picture of the Aerotrain on the Horeseshoe Curve with a meet of a Pennsy Truc-Train at => http://www.joesherlock.com/nwsltr24.html.
I guessing that the asking price will be a great “piggy bank” project for those of us n-scalers in the middle of putting the new layout together where my year is 1956.