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Dec 4, 2020 - HO Scale
Kato - HO Scale - New Release Amtrak® Superliner® I Phase VI
Next year, Kato USA will be doing brand new releases of the popular HO Superliner cars in Amtrak’s modern Phase VI paint – these releases will be updated with black trucks to more accurately represent these cars as they run today, as well as match up with the also available Superliner II and Baggage cars, available now! Keep a look out for a brand new HO Amtrak product also to come next year – announcement coming soon!
Prototype Information:
The Superliner I fleet was built in 1979 by Pullman Standard. Amtrak's Superliners were based on the famous Budd built Hi-Levels operated by the Santa Fe railroad, for their El Capitan all-coach train. Amtrak passenger trains can run with a variety of car combinations, including lounge cars, dining cars, and sleepers on longer distance trains, with shorter trains running mostly coaches with perhaps a dining car and a coach/baggage car. Amtrak Superlines run all over the country (with the exception of the northeast corridor, where high roofs and low tunnel cielings pose a dangerous combination).
Model Features:
- Perfectly suited to be pulled by Kato's EMD F40PH locomotives or GE P42 "Genesis" locomotives.
- All details factory installed
- Metal weights give prototypical heft and momentum
- Optional included Kinematic couplers allow prototypical close coupling while still navigating tight radii
- Superliners have full interior detailing and can be lit with optional 7-504 interior lighting kit (non-lounge only - use special #958048 to light the Lounge)
- Passenger cars have tinted, flush windows
- Designed to easily illuminate marker lights with optional light board #958046
- Free rolling, detailed trucks with rotating bearing caps (Superliners and MHC's only) and shock absorber construction
- Crisp, elegant detailing
Order Due Date: December 31, 2020
Anticipated Delivery Date: June 2021
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