Cars for the train include a 63-foot Railway Post Office, a 75-foot express car, and the following 85-foot cars: 498- and 535-series 52-seat coaches, a 48-seat diner, a Pullman-Standard (PS) Super Dome ($94.98), a 26-seat tap lounge, a Valley-series 30-seat parlor car, and a Rapids-series Skytop lounge ($94.98). The models, which will be priced at $84.98 each unless noted, will be offered in standard versions with decals and with factory-printed names or numbers.
The 1953 to 1955 cars will have black trucks, clasp brakes, straight side sills, folded car steps, and original ends without lift rings. The 1955 to 1971 cars will feature silver trucks, disc brakes as appropriate, notched side sills (except on Super Dome), fixed car steps, and later-style ends with lift rings and different diaphragms (except on Super Dome).
The 1960s nine-car Twin Cities Hiawatha ($1,105) will include a Railway Post Office, an express car, four 52-seat coaches, a 48-seat diner, a PS Super Dome, and a Rapids-series Skytop lounge. The cars will include more than 150 factory-installed Preiser figures.
Wrapping up the car releases will be Super Dome no. 53 and Skytop lounge Cedar Rapids decorated in the modern excursion scheme. The cars, scheduled for release in July and October 2020, respectively, will be priced at $94.98 each.
Single FP7s will sell for $189.98 (direct current) and $279.98 (ESU LokSound 5 Digital Command Control sound decoder). FP7 and F7B sets will be priced at $369.98 (DC) and $549.98 (ESU LokSound 5 Digital Command Control sound decoder).
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What’s captioned as photos of the models Skytop lounges in the “Rapids” series is actually a second appearance of the photos of the models of the Superdomes.
Overpriced cars. I would like to spend my $100 bucks on a locomotive, not a single passenger car.