Originally Posted by Os3r:
Overland marketed them as $1K+ passenger cars. I don't envision 3rd Rail making or needing to make cars at or near that price point. You can get E or F units from Key Imports or from Sunset/3rd Rail. It just depends upon what you're willing to pay.
Yes but, note that Sunset/3rd Rail will be offering these hospital cars in BRASS, i.e. they will be expensive, especially for the average 3-Rail "toy train" person. The ABS (plastic) passenger car models that Golden Gate Depot offers must be high volume in order to recoup the tooling costs for "molding" ABS bodies, and thus they sell for something around $150 per car.
Just my opinion but, I simply can not see the demand for a Ferdinand Magellan car in either the high volume ABS (plastic), nor the hand-made $450 to $500 brass product.