Big Kato Announcement Coming????

[wazzou]

No, I had Ed pegged as OCD, but based on Jamie's clue..."might be another electric loco. Might be an olympian-sized effort on Kato's part."

The Milwaukee EP-2 or Bipolar was the loco of choice for the Olympian.

[wm3798]

Maybe Kato is being bought out by Horizon!

[SirTainly]

If true, MILW seems to be getting all the passenger train lovin' at the moment, and proves that Kato is playing follow my leader with FVM. ;D

[GaryHinshaw]

We'll find out tomorrow?    :

[up1950s]

We'll find out tomorrow?    :

Your post hurt my head . Had me wondering who really was the owner of the original ad , then there wasn't Kato trackage .

[ljudice]

Guys, this is the entire message.... Horizon is NOT part of the passenger pre-order reminder, it is the second of two major headings.  "Pre" is capitalized too...


• Upcoming Pre-order closing dates

Amtrak Modelers: The pre-order deadline for hobby stores to reserve their copies of the upcoming N scale GE P42, Amfleet, and Viewliner Phase IV Locomotive and 5-Car Sets will be closing soon. If you were planning on reserving a copy at your local hobby store, be sure to let them know before the 23rd of September (next Thursday)!
 
• Big News on the Horizon

Keep your eyes peeled to our website and to your e-mail inbox in the next month - We've got a doozy coming down the tracks for you!

[sirenwerks]

Guys, this is the entire message.... Horizon is NOT part of the passenger pre-order reminder, it is the second of two major headings.  "Pre" is capitalized too...


• Upcoming Pre-order closing dates

Amtrak Modelers: The pre-order deadline for hobby stores to reserve their copies of the upcoming N scale GE P42, Amfleet, and Viewliner Phase IV Locomotive and 5-Car Sets will be closing soon. If you were planning on reserving a copy at your local hobby store, be sure to let them know before the 23rd of September (next Thursday)!
 
• Big News on the Horizon

Keep your eyes peeled to our website and to your e-mail inbox in the next month - We've got a doozy coming down the tracks for you!

Hmmm, the W is capitalized. That's obvious proof that they're hinting at the HiaWatha, because HiaWatha has a W in it too, in the middle, where it would look just as stupid being capitalized. Gotta be the Hiawatha... It's just gotta be... I mean, come on, if they don't do it first Walthers (OMG, another W, this is kismit) will. (Yea, right)

[Puddington]

I am tired of tease announcements.... and the 7 page threads they create...........announce; don't announce but stop the "tease"...it's n scale, they don't sell squat.

Signed "Mr Grumpy". >

[sirenwerks]

The lead up works great when the thing being announced is what you want. BUt the fall is that much more for those disappointed. The tactic can backfire pretty easily.

[victor miranda]

a big W

you never heard of an atWantic ?

[sirenwerks]

a big W

you never heard of an atWantic ?

LMAO! Okay Elmer.

[GaryHinshaw]

Your post hurt my head . Had me wondering who really was the owner of the original ad , then there wasn't Kato trackage .

With apologies to Craig, I should add...  Just a wink at the recent spate of Doppelgangers.  I suspect Kato has something original planned.

[Dave V]

Harkening back to the suggestion this could be an electric...

IF it were an electric, how could it not be an E33?  Sure, I'd rather an E44, but the E33s give you SO many roadnames:

VGN, N&W, NYNH&H, PC, CR...  The E44 in contrast gives you only 3 roads:  PRR, PC, CR.  How about variations?  I know that by Conrail, there was a mix of blue can openers and black "CR" patch jobs, so that's only 4 variations for the E44, versus many more for the E33.

Oh yeah, and there's got to be a demonstrator for the E33, right?

What would this mean to Dave?  Well...  Lancaster County, PA, and the corridor between it and Philadelphia was a big part of my formative memories from infancy all the way to today.  Although I grew up on Long Island, both sides of my family hailed from the Lancaster area (and still do) and so we made several trip several times a year, sometimes by train (including the Broadway Limited!).  And every year since birth but one has found me at Lehman Place Junction on the Strasburg Railroad,, craning my neck to see an Amtrak train under Pennsy-strung wires.

The lack of electric locomotives in N scale has made modeling the Harrisburg-Philadelphia corridor an easy option to discard.  The lack of PRR-style catenary in N seals the deal...  for now.  Kato's GG1 is perhaps the finest running and best looking locomotive I own.  It's screaming for a couple of feet of PRR-style catenary.  But GG1s and E33s available, plus a Kato/Micro-Ace Japanese boxcab painted up as a PRR FF2 or P5a foobie would push me over the edge.

At that point, I would be willing to scratchbuild a few styles of cat poles and then cast them in flexible resin.  It's been a dream to do that, actually, at some point, to the point of maybe selling said castings (with piles of free "test shots" to select asshats).  BUT, alas, my life is far too chaotic for a business venture right now!

[up1950s]

Wasn't there a big W made of palm trees in that star filled move , what was that , "It's A Mad Mad Mad World" . Maybe Kato is going to try and palm something off that never existed .

[Bob Bufkin]

I was thinking of an E33 or E44 myself.  Rumors is that Bachmann was going to do the E33, so Kato will probably beat them to the punch.  Would go with their new PC stuff they are getting into.

As for the W palm trees in a movie, it was A Wild Wild Wild World.