Kato Amfleet Set

[ljudice]

Thanks for the photos - I can't believe it - a home run for me!

[Ian MacMillan]

You could also do a smaller Lake Shore with that set.   Last time I took the LSL....about 14 years ago it had the lone Viewliner Diner #8400 on it.

[ljudice]

Ooops - re-reading this and it's not as helpful - Phase IV... 

hmmm.....

[Robbman]

I need some 70s Amfleets for my SDP40F that I'll get around to pestering M4D to do for me.

Not to change the subject, but you guys need to do some CSX slugs first...

Pre-order 1000 at $50 a pop and then you can change the subject.  My SDP40F stems from the Kaslo project, nothing else...

[ljudice]

Hmmmm.... Got to check my paypal balance first....

But  you know - 1000 - if they could be used directly in the Atlas production line -
you figure 200 of 5 paint schemes/road numbers - maybe with a custom run of GP40-2's....

Of course $50 + 100 +/- =  $150 + 100 for the GP40 -  1000   $250 sets .... no way to sell them all
I suspect...

Is my math close or way off?

[Nato]

   The Amfleet cars that Kato is doing are the second gen Amfleet II cars built originally for Florida Trains. These cars have never been modeled before,Bachmann's Amtubes are the original design Amfleet (now Amfleet I) cars. Con Cor did model the Viewliner Sleeper and the only Viewliner Diner, these were models of the original prototype test cars, so the KATO will look different as it models production cars.                Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.

[kiwi_al]

I need some 70s Amfleets for my SDP40F that I'll get around to pestering M4D to do for me.

Now you have the balls to say this after I've built two and am making a 3rd????? Yah wuss !!  ;D
Kia Kaha

[eric220]

I really hope that they at least do add-on packs for this set.  $250 for an Amfleet coach and cafe, and $250 for each additional coach?  I understand that the additional sets could be split, but just to get up to a Northeast Direct with four coaches and a cafe would cost an initial $1,000.  Add to that the fact that you would then have to sell four baggage cars and three cafe cars, which would be in much lower demand than the coaches.  The Viewliners and P42's would probably go without much trouble, but I doubt it would be would be enough to recoup the $1,000 cost of a simple 5-car train, let alone the additional cost for a longer, more prototypical length train.  C'mon Kato, don't make me go to Bachmann!

[slickwillie]

Thanks for the photos - I can't believe it - a home run for me!

There you go - Kato just making East Coast stuff again!! Us West Coasters  left out on a limb again with nothing to do but pine and sigh and wait... again!  East Coast Bias has spread beyond our shores! 

[Mark5]

I really hope that they at least do add-on packs for this set.  $250 for an Amfleet coach and cafe, and $250 for each additional coach?  I understand that the additional sets could be split, but just to get up to a Northeast Direct with four coaches and a cafe would cost an initial $1,000.  Add to that the fact that you would then have to sell four baggage cars and three cafe cars, which would be in much lower demand than the coaches.  The Viewliners and P42's would probably go without much trouble, but I doubt it would be would be enough to recoup the $1,000 cost of a simple 5-car train, let alone the additional cost for a longer, more prototypical length train.  C'mon Kato, don't make me go to Bachmann!

Welcome to Kato-land!

I hope they do release sets of the AmSausages.

They seem happy to "sit on" the Broadway tooling though. Some pieces of that set (like the BM70 and the Pullman 10-6) would be useful sold separately to some of us but Kato just says no.

[sundowner]

The more I think of it the more I suspect this is going to be like the Japanese trainsets they sell. First they sell you the power and a few cars in a set and then they come out with 4, 6 or 8 cars add on set.
So I suspect we will see the other parts announced at a later day specially if they sell out the sets.
 I do wish they would have done them in phase IVb to go with my six phase V P42 but phase IV is close enough for my era. Also wish they would do a heritage diner but that could come if they do the add-on set.

[eric220]

The more I think of it the more I suspect this is going to be like the Japanese trainsets they sell. First they sell you the power and a few cars in a set and then they come out with 4, 6 or 8 cars add on set.

That would be pretty much perfect for me, provided it comes in phase IVb.  I really want to build about an eight-car Northeast Direct consist; I used to ride those all the time.  I'd love to have the model, and I'd rather not shell out a couple hundred to Bachmann, only to have to change out all the couplers and do surgery on all the wheels.

[Ian MacMillan]

Drawings are out

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Who cares? As long as they bundle it with a locomotive I can't use, I'm not buying.

Even when they're so close, they're still so far...

[Dave V]

Anyone know the main spotting differences between Amfleet I and Amfleet II?