A few days ago, I was working with my model railroad and was thinking about my Bachmann full-length dome lounge cars. I have five of these, three "McKinley Explorer" cars, an ATSF car, and an AMTRAK car that I repainted in Milwaukee Road colors as a stand-in for a correct Pullman-Standard Superdome car.
These are really nice cars. They have interior details on both levels and look great when the interiors are painted.
I took a sixth one and used parts of it, with Evergreen Plastic and a Con-Cor dining car, to produce a model of an SP 3/4 length dome lounge.
This led me to wonder why Bachmann has produced no more cars in this series to run with the full-length domes? I would think there would be a market for other stainless steel passenger cars in full-length format. Some cars that are not commonly available are diner-lounges; coach-grill cars; baggage-cafe cars; or just some additional coach/chair cars and baggage cars? How about a full-length parlor car?
Les
We do need more fairly priced passenger cars, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Fairly priced means lets say eighteen dollars a piece, not thirtytwo dollars a piece.
Probably doable if you don't mind deleting interior detail, clear windows and other details considering $18 is about the going rate for a box car that has none of these things.