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It's still on the schedule (with all new tooling rather than utilizing the ex-Life Like body), but the X65 is ahead of it. Keystone floor/underframes are in stock, Hydra-Cushion floor/underframes are out of stock. They will be back in stock when the X65 or next X58 batch is released. Possibly in late 2017. (Attachment Link) The reason for new X72 tooling is because it's cheaper to do that than to buy the bodies from Walthers.
My LV sights are set on the X65:http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2706442 (7160)Oh wait, is that an Evans design? (7140-7189)?I assume 8300-8399 are X65?http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1194312 (8337)
The red CB&Q cars on the modern body remain in stock.
Ohhh.....I may have to rethink my plans.... It's crazy to think that Walthers was charging you so much for the bodies that it is cheaper for you to build your own from the ground up! Which would make the Walthers shell pretty much worthless..It's amazing Walthers still has legs left with as many times they've shot themselves in the foot in the N scale market.Fwiw, I was buying complete X72s for $2/car 10 years ago ( Bevbel, Industrial Rail, LL, etc)I sold most of them years ago but I still have a few I was going to paint in various conrail schemes.~Ian