Not to speak of the effect of adding light kits to these Budd cars and
running them with the new Kato E8/9's that have bright white headlights
that truly reflect from the tracks ahead!
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: JOHN J. OLSON & DEBBIE NIESS [mailto:trains@m...]
Sent: Wed, December 13, 2000 6:41 PM
To: BRHS
Subject: [BRHSlist] Vote for Kato passenger cars
Hi Group,
I just wanted to say that, if those of you on this list who are
model
railroaders, have not had a chance to see Kato's new 'N' scale
Corrugated
Budd cars- you need to do so! Absolutely stunning would be a good
description. Then- I would like to recommend that we all run out and buy
the
HO Budd Business cars (CB&Q 'Burlington' and 'Roundup') in HO when Kato
releases them. If we give Kato a 'good show' on the HO business cars-
they
might (and I say might) consider doing the Budd 12 car set in HO. This
set
reads like a "who's who" of Burlington passenger cars. Instead of doing
the
California Zephyr cars like everyone else has done- they did a real nice
cross section of various 'Q' Budd cars like the Silver Streak Zephyr
Observation car. Also- Baggage, RPO, Coaches and Diner from the late
30's
(with open skirting over the trucks), and full skirted Domes, 10-6
Pullmans
and a Slumbercoach. Every car is prototypical lengthwise from the 72' 8"
headend cars, 79' 8" Coaches, 83' 2" Diner, 85' 0" Domes and Pullmans to
the
88' 7" Observation. You could make up an infinite variety of secondary
and
mid to late 60's Zephyrs with these cars when all sorts of general pool
Budd
cars started to infiltrate the 'name' trains. Although Kato also painted
and
lettered these N scale cars for several other roads (ATSF, CP, Southern
and
others) they are true 'Q' prototypes to the core. Check them out!
John Olson
Jim's Junction
Billings, Mt.
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