The Viewliner®  II is scheduled to be Amtrak’s newest addition to its fleet of single-level rolling stock, with planned rollouts of Baggage cars, diners, and Sleeping cars all expected to enter standard service through the next few years. Right now Amtrak is operating 55 Baggage cars in this new style, wearing a special “Phase III heritage” paint scheme that combines the classic red-white-and-blue stripes with Amtrak’s new modern logo and the phrase “Amtrak America”

While the Viewliner and Amfleet®  single-level cars are typically designed for use throughout the Eastern United States on long distance trains, the new Viewliner II Baggage cars are also used on Superliner trains, making them extremely versatile and a great addition to a model railroader’s N scale Amtrak fleet!

Kato USA will be releasing models of these new cars alongside a re-run of our classic Amfleet II Coach and Viewliner I Sleeper cars in Amtrak’s modern paint, to arrive in June 2019. These cars will feature all metal wheel pickup as well as interior lighting capability with the use of 11-211 or 11-212 Version 2 Interior Lighting Kits.