Description
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).
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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
