Key takeways...
Product Status
1. Big Boy making progress. Decision to add speaker to tender by default for easy sound upgrade.
2. Updates on the N&W passenger brass
3. AutoMax articulated autoracks - plastic is in hand, probably 90 days out.
4. New run of spine cars.
5. New big rigs, three types including "Pbilt-style" and two different cabovers. Should arrive at AZL very soon.
New Item Announcements
1. Biggest news items are new F40PH (including Cabbages!) and new SD7/SD9.
2. New GP9's too but a loco that has been done previously by both AZL and MTL. AZL's tooling was "lost" I believe in all of the factory shuffle a decade ago.
3. New Horizon/Comet cars
4. New Nippon commuter cars
5. New run of Bombardiers including new sloped end cab cars.
6. Rerelease of older freight cars coming. No addl release details yet.
7. Rerelease of GP38-2's coming. No addl release details yet.
