City of San Francisco
The City of San Francisco will be the next train in Walthers’ line of name trains.
This offering will feature equipment from the various railroads that jointly operated this streamliner from Chicago to San Francisco, including Southern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Union Pacific, and Texas & New Orleans. Electro-Motive Division E9A and E9B diesel locomotives decorated for Union Pacific and Milwaukee Road, both in Amour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray, will also be offered.
In addition, for the first time Walthers is offering Proto-series Alco PA and PB units decorated for Southern Pacific in the Daylight and scarlet-and-gray schemes, as well as Texas & New Orleans in the Daylight scheme.
Passenger cars will be available with either car name and number decals or with factory-printed names and numbers. All car types from typical City of San Francisco consists will be available. Four new cars are being tooled for the train, including the Union Pacific-owned American Car & Foundry (ACF) baggage-mail car, Southern Pacific’s 83-C-2 coach, Union Pacific’s ACF club lounge car, and the Southern Pacific-owned Pullman-Standard 10-6 blunt end sleeper.
The passenger cars will be available separately and in two Deluxe Edition sets, the latter with light-emitting diode lighting and 130 Preiser figures seated in the train. Three holiday expansion sets with three cars each will also be offered. To see all the available options for this train, visit walthers.com
Really??? Other than the locos just another variation of previous releases. Try something a little different or forget about it. There’s plenty of other Name trains they could offer CNW 400; NP NCL; RI Rocket; IC CNO/Panama Ltd & others. Pretty disappointing Walthers.