Big Kato Announcement Coming????

[sundowner]

BTW - the UP 7400  ES44AC being unveiled next week is the "Pink Ribbon" locomotive, commemorating UP's partnership with the Susan B. Komen for the Cure and Breast Cancer Awareness.

Just wanted to set the record straight, since I had posted an incorrect rumor before...

So that why the NMRA change there logo.

[lashedup]

I HEART -

[central.vermont]

I think Lee got it right back in July!!!! ;D ;D
Jon

Maybe it would clear things up if they made the logo look like a full freight truck...



mmm.  Maybe not.

Could it be that no one saw the problem because the members of the NMRA have never seen....  the problem?

[Atlanticflier]

I was just reading to see what's new !     :

LOL -that is Fun ney.....

[Mr. G]

Say what you will, I still like it better than the old NMRA logo.  More modern is not a bad thing.

Drunkenly swerving back to the topic, I'm wondering if this is going to be an American Freedom Train set. 

• They have the GS-4.
• They obviously think this is a big announcement, so probably not something like a new run of something old
• It would likely be a darling with collectors

[James Costello]

To Be Announced at iHobby?

[lashedup]

To Be Announced at iHobby?

That's the rumor.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Geez, still 25 days to go. Waiting for iHobby is like waiting for Windows Phone 7... it can't get here quick enough.

[Puddington]

Say what you will, I still like it better than the old NMRA logo.  More modern is not a bad thing.

Drunkenly swerving back to the topic, I'm wondering if this is going to be an American Freedom Train set. 

• They have the GS-4.
• They obviously think this is a big announcement, so probably not something like a new run of something old
• It would likely be a darling with collectors

That would be a logical project but "big announcement"...? I guess the collectors would go nuts but talk about limiting your audience.... it's got as very "calendar-ish" appeal......well; their last "big announcement" was the NYC RDC with B47 jet pack so who knows......................... ;D

[FrankCampagna]

Maybe an add-on set to their announced PC passenger train  :. They have a lot of eastern stuff coming. Interesting to see what they have up their sleeves.

Frank

[Ian MacMillan]

I'm still going with it being a doll house.

[SirTainly]

Kato seems to be having a big love-in with Amtrak on their site, since it's the latter's 40th birthday, I'm changing my vote to it being something from the NEC. An Acela would fit right in with Kato's Japanese Shikansens.

[wm3798]

But Bachmann is the official licensee of the Acela...  My vote goes to an AEM7, if Amtrak is indeed the topic at hand.

Lee

[conrail98]

But Bachmann is the official licensee of the Acela...  My vote goes to an AEM7, if Amtrak is indeed the topic at hand.

Lee

Exactly, if they are going to go with a new locomotive and looking at how they've progressed from a timeline standpoint, the next logical is an AEM7. If they do come out with this, I may have to rethink everything with the layout as the first area I always wanted to model was Morrisville/Trenton area, but the lack of decent and appropriate electrics always prevented that,

Phil

[victor miranda]

in both keeping with Kato passenger sets and
it being a BIG announcement....
and otherwise being completely out of the west coast...

any one think the Southern Heavy Pacific and a matching stack of cars?

victor