Kato September Announcements

[Chulvis]

New Stuff:

106-6142: Maxi 1 5 Unit Set with 10 APL Containers TTX # 750764

176-5341 E8A Amtrak #419 - Phase 1
176-5343 E8A Penn Central #4285
106-3521 Penn Central 4 Car Set: Includes ex PRR cars in varying colors and schemes (more detail to follow shortly)
106-3522 Amtrak Phase 1 4 Car Set: Includes Ex-El Cap Baggage, Ex- Super Chief 10-6, Ex- CZ Diner and Ex CZ 10-6

[Bob Bufkin]

Kato keeps this up, they will be accused of an Eastern bias.

[Mark5]

Wow, who'd a put money on PC passenger cars? ;D Broadway cars I assume.

Which Amtrak scheme on the E8?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

PC Cars? That's awesome!!!!

Maybe now I DO need to get me a GG1.

[oakcreekco]

Let the "peein' and moaning" begin ;D

[Chulvis]

Wow, who'd a put money on PC passenger cars? ;D Broadway cars I assume.

Still waiting on the final details but I understand it will be a mix of some green, silver and ex-B'way cars. The first set will consist of 1 coach and three different types of sleepers, so I have to assume there will be additional sets to follow.

Which Amtrak scheme on the E8?

Phase 1

[MichaelWinicki]

I'll be getting the PC E8A and the cars.

Nice additions!

Props Kato! 

[davefoxx]

Weren't Penn Central passenger cars affectionately known as "roach coaches"?

By the way, AMTK 419 was actually an E9A, originally built for the Union Pacific, and was the last E-unit built by EMD.

DFF

[Puddington]

By the way, AMTK 419 was actually an E9A, originally built for the Union Pacific, and was the last E-unit built by EMD.

DFF

You mean Kato made a "boo boo"........... ? I was lead to believe they were perfect.....well; I have now lived to see everything........

[Bob Bufkin]

You can run PC E's on Amtrak.  Amtrak's Wash, DC section of the Broadway used them.  Here's proof.



Nice mix of cars on that train. 

[wm3798]

Oh my....  If they announce a CR-appropriate SD40-2, the earth will drop out of orbit...

[SecretWeapon]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GaryHinshaw]

Maxi-I, is that correct???     

Man, I'm going to run out of things to wish for.    

Really going to have to work on some etched platforms for these and the Maxi-IVs now (assuming they're still plastic).

[asarge]

Man what is it w/Kato and Penn Central lately. That's kinda cool! I've kinda taken a liking to the lost cause since I read the Jerry Taylor book on the PC.

[davefoxx]

You mean Kato made a "boo boo"........... ? I was lead to believe they were perfect.....well; I have now lived to see everything........

I didn't mean my previous post to be a complaint against Kato.  I was just trying to point out the prototype's pedigree for those who were interested.  The differences between an E8 and an E9 are minor; in fact, Life Like has marketed theirs as an E8/9.

I might be in the market for an Amtrak E unit in Phase 1, because it would mesh perfectly with my early 1970s C&O (pre-Chessie System) rolling stock.  I love looking back at the rainbow of passenger cars on those early Amtrak trains.  That allows modelers of that era to run a random selection of cars in various roadnames.  To anyone who does that, though, be mindful that there were a few roads (e.g., Southern Ry.) that opted out of Amtrak in the beginning.

Dave