Product Detail

Details:

• 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

Prototype and Model Overview:

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).