Well, since we totally destroyed your question, what the should offer, because they will never offer what we want, is the old fashion UNDEC railway. Since I will have to repaint anyway, it would be a lot easier and cheaper if I didn’t have to first undo whatever nice paint job they start with.
DougNash,
You forget that all the Walthers trains so far have been out of Chicago and that they alternate West-East-West-East, etc. Since the last train is the El Capitan, my bet is on an Eastern train pulled out of Chicago by F’s or E’s.
Paul A. Cutler III
Just thinking…
Since Walthers’ emphasis is on name trains that serviced Chicago; I wonder if we might not see one of the streamlined 1940s-50s CB&Q Zephyrs with plated SS cars and E8s/E9 units?
Con-Cor produced the Pioneer Zephyr (I think) but that’s a late 1930s version.
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I’m thinking they may have saturated the market with $1000 western trains, and decide to do an eastern train. Maybe City of New Orleans or the Southern Crescent. Or the Capital Limited.
When will they announce the new train? After the El Cap is all out?
Let’s see, seems to be a consensus here… so a Chicago servicing with possible an East coast RR. Hey Rich (richhotrain) are you listening? Better make some room for it in your new coach yard!!
Deja vu! I recall being here at least once before. My guess then as my guess now is IC’s Panama Limited . . . . . . . . . . but what do I, a loathsome Nobility-Scale modeler, know. One thing I do know for sure, they ain’t gonna do it in Nobility-Scale.
I had a few drinks with Steven Otte last night, and he blurted out that the next Walthers name train is going to be the Monon Hoosier.
Excellent. That is the only road name missing in my Dearborn Station module.
Rich
If Chicago is the common link, it is the east’ turn, and considering the inventory of early Amtrak some have said is at Walthers, why not Amtrak’s Floridian? At least we might see a new run of the Proto E8’s in Amtrak. Who knows, they may make Antonio(and me) happy by making a loco, SDP40F, the new model highlight for the name train.
Jay
I’ll go out on a limb and say IC Panama Ltd/Green Diamond/City of New Orleans with
a model of New Orleans Union depot. then SP Sunset ltd or Daylight train with a model
of San Fransisco Terminal (nice to bad it’s long gone!).Neither railroad I model unfortunately!
I would agree on previous post to see any non Cal. Zephyr train with E5s!!! Twin,Zephr Rocket,
and or something with a never produced in plastic sleeper 14-4-hello Wabash, NKP,etc.
Can only wish for another midwest train from Walthers!!
Steven
I’m surprised Walthers never come out with VIA Rail’s present day Canadian yet. They already produce the loco and passenger cars that basically represent it.
If that turns out to be true, I’ll be more surprised than anybody. I must have been drinking a lot, 'cause I’ve blacked out the entire thing. [B][+o(]
I could go for an IC train. Could even throw in an NP painted car that they borrowed during the Northwest’s off season. Did the City of New Orleans have any train specific cars? I thought it was all overnight coach.
This is more ‘what I’d like to see’, but I think it would be an easy to reproduce with existing models and also presents an opportunity to make a model no one ever made This could also satisfy C&O and B&O fans with one train (the railroads combined their trains (and motive power) for some distance).
A C&O train from the late 60’s, out of Detroit, maybe the George Washington, Ambassador, or Sportsman? Some trains included C&O and B&O sections (motive power too) in one train. Late 60’s trains could be of mixed roadnames with RPO/baggage, even a flexivan in the consist. I believe most models are available, just not in the correct paint. An opportunity to make a new model exists too…the C&O Roadrailer’s on the end of trains between Detroit and Chicago haven’t been modeled before (as far as I know).
These trains slowly got shorter until they disappeared, so it would be easy to ‘build’ a prototypical pike sized passenger train (as small as an E8 and one 52-seat coach); for those on tight budgets. Special consists (3 E’s and about a dozen cars) ran too; one was to the Univ of Michigan football games (Detroit(Ann Arbor)-Toledo?); for those that like impressively long trains. Long trains or short trains all from the same few coach models. These trains could provide all the operations possible, head end express/RPO(ex troop cars, REA, refrigerator, flexivan, Roadrailers) baggage (light weight or heavy weights repainted), sleepers, parlor, observation, coaches and E8’s. Many models already exist, only thing Walthers would need to do is come up with a new paint scheme for them; and what an attractive paint scheme it is! Looks great in the mountains or in the Midwest cities/plains (IMHO) 
B&O Cincinattian!
Glad to see alot of suggestions related to the B&O.
Hello,
how about an eastern road such as HO PRR 1952 era budd built senator and congressional and a model of new york’s pennsylvania and grand central stations. I am not sure if it is feasible to model these train stations but I have 4 broadway limited imports PRR GG-1 and some NH electrics, I would love to see the senator produced one day in plastic.
Regards Matthew Redden