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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2020, 07:21:20 PM »
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Coming 20/21... I guess they announced it way early last year, or they didn't plan on the big boy project taking place.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2020, 07:23:37 PM »
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Coming 20/21... I guess they announced it way early last year, or they didn't plan on the big boy project taking place.

It has already been 18 months since the initial announce at the SLC N Scale Convention.
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2020, 08:04:00 PM »
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I still think the 1941 Empire State Express would be the more historically significant choice..

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2020, 08:30:02 PM »
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Would Kato be likely to choose something other than the "as built" configuration?

Earlier E7A units had the small number boards,  in my earlier post I was talking about the NYC E7s as well.
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2020, 09:12:31 PM »
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Sure, if the passenger consist doesn't represent the "as delivered" train then they could do a later locomotive.
There's a fairly tight window for some later version train of the 1948 train.
E8 locos would have been assigned to the Century starting in 1952.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2020, 11:34:01 AM »
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One of my absolute favorites.  And, at the end, there is that pair of SP diesels in Daylight colors.
One of my absolute favorites, too.  But the lead loco (an FP7?) is in Black Widow while the trailing engine (F7) is in the scarlet-gray scheme.  After a Baggage-RPO in Lark colors there is an articulated coach in the Daylight scheme.  Nice example of SP's rainbow era.
I'm in for Kato's 20th Century, for sure.  And the Lark if/when Kato ever gets around to it.
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2020, 05:53:59 PM »
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Kato rep suggested that more specific info would be forthcoming around the time of the NMRA national show in mid-July.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2020, 02:48:30 PM »
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New info via FB, don't think this linked image will last long.  Maybe Kato will post it on their website.



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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #23 on: March 31, 2020, 04:47:43 PM »
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13 cars! Have they done a set that large that wasn't broken into a base set and add on cars?
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2020, 05:14:12 PM »
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They could release it as a 9/4 pair..
With the 4 being two 4-4-2s and two 12Bs

That would make the Broadway a 15 car set...
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #25 on: March 31, 2020, 05:25:13 PM »
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Kato E8s in plain gray with white stripes could extend the time frame too.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #26 on: March 31, 2020, 05:36:19 PM »
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I forgot to suggest offering the Budd Sleepercoaches with gray letterboards, possibly without the full skirts as modelled for the CZ Slumbercoaches.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #27 on: April 01, 2020, 09:38:12 AM »
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Kato tends to look at each project as a line item and in some ways looks at future derivations years later as a separate enterprise.
Luckily the E7 doesn’t involve dynamic brakes, but pilot variations, headlight, numberboard, steam generator types and single or dual, and phase (even within NYC) come into play.   
Will the NYC have small NB, 45 degree?  Which of four or five pilot styles?  Coupler covers, open, closed, removed?  NYC should have single HL, but that eliminates some future quick paint job releases right there. 
Tooling ideally is set up for the widest practical range of future releases as that is more economical than trying to retool later....   if it was 1970 it wouldn’t matter, but today even the lack of road specific details impacts acceptance.
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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2020, 11:03:06 AM »
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Very disappointed there's no E7B.  Especially if we see SP Daylight E7's in the future.

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Re: Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?
« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2020, 01:35:40 PM »
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The B unit would be a big seller when you think of all the road names available.
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