Scott has posted a video on the GGD website of the production samples of the Daylight he received due here in February including good pics of the brass 3/4 dome.
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Richard - post a link so everyone can see how awesome they are!
@GG1 4877 posted:Richard - post a link so everyone can see how awesome they are!
Those do look great! 
WOW!!!! Just beautiful. What time frame/era would this set represent? When I was active in the hobby, I had the full GGD SP Daylight set from the steam era, post 1946, and also had a black (with the skirts removed) GS-4 from Sunset/3rd Rail, to pull the train set. It was stunning, and a big hit when ever visitors came over.
Wow Beautiful are those Diaphragms available for Separate sale @sdmann ?
What happened with the Amtrak 3/4 dome? It is no longer on the website.
They look good. Corrugations appear to be improved over the original offering. A photo of the trucks would help. Can we assume metal?
@tom21pa posted:What happened with the Amtrak 3/4 dome? It is no longer on the website.
Why not eMail Scott directly?
@Hot Water posted:Why not eMail Scott directly?
I know its getting made, got the bill for it. Just odd the photo disappeared.
I have the first run. The colors look the same. I hope so, because I ordered the dome to go with the first run set. The corrugations on the dome look different from the other cars, as they should.
@GG1 4877 posted:Richard - post a link so everyone can see how awesome they are!
Its also on Youtube under title
GGD SP Daylight Samples Dec 2.
No link allowed from Youtube.
That Amtrak 3/4 is going to look stellar with phase 1 paint...although not as purdy as the SP Daylight scheme.
@tom21pa posted:What happened with the Amtrak 3/4 dome? It is no longer on the website.
Its getting made! I too got the bill for it. Feb 2022 delivery. If it looks like the SP Daylight 3/4 dome, its gonna look sweet! Definitely a conversation starter!
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Those do look great!
If the P.E. engine gets done in Feb. or later, ill have to remember to bring over the 3/4 dome car so you can inspect.
@tom21pa posted:What happened with the Amtrak 3/4 dome? It is no longer on the website.
I emailed but no response and also still no picture AND it’s gone from the reservations page.
@Shawn_Chronister posted:Wow Beautiful are those Diaphragms available for Separate sale @sdmann ?
Email Scott. IMO it’s always good to have an extra or two for “back-up”.
(Also - Perhaps they can be modified for use with run 1 articulated cars. I passed on them then but would like to see is these can be modified (sans magnets?) for run 1 use. )
These look awesome, I have the set and the articulated cars on order. Now to score those Lionel PA-1s. I have no SP motive power LOL.
Crazy incredible.
Nice.
now if Scott will just remake the congressional and powhattan arrow and a city of LA or SF to go with the E6's (paint matching of course) i can die happy---and broke lol
@MPC1974 posted:These look awesome, I have the set and the articulated cars on order. Now to score those Lionel PA-1s. I have no SP motive power LOL.
Perhaps it is time to ask Scott about a 3rd run of PA's? The Sunset late PA, known to modelers as the the "PA3", with the snowplow on the pilot is 2nd to none in the 3 rail O scale world.
@MPC1974 posted:These look awesome, I have the set and the articulated cars on order. Now to score those Lionel PA-1s. I have no SP motive power LOL.
I have two 3rd rail SP daylight alco PA's I'd sell
@GG1 4877 posted:Perhaps it is time to ask Scott about a 3rd run of PA's? The Sunset late PA, known to modelers as the the "PA3", with the snowplow on the pilot is 2nd to none in the 3 rail O scale world.
I’d love to see a third run of the PAs. The Models are ALL beautiful. I’m Very happy with my SP NKP and MP. I’d like to see a SP Bloody Nose version and MP Jenks Blue version offered in a run 3.
Boy. So many offerings in the Q now though and production/delivery is SO SLOW !!!!!! 🤔
E1, EA, SD40-2, EP3, E6, Alco FA, P42 offerings alone probably takes us deep into 2024. 🤭😮.
Yep. A heck of a jam up. 😳😳😳. I guess we just have to be patient
😑☹️😵💫🤯.
Just keep the beauties coming Scott !!!😬
@tom21pa posted:I have two 3rd rail SP daylight alco PA's I'd sell
Tom, thanks please DM me I may well be interested!
@tom21pa posted:I have two 3rd rail SP daylight alco PA's I'd sell
Tom I sent you an email to you last night requesting to purchase these? Used the email in your profile here.
Well here’s hoping the Daylight cars, C&O steam, and Kraus Maffei are Very Soon being pack up into a container for shipment to US. 🤞🤞🤞 The sooner these products set sail, the happier a lot of us will be !!! 😬🙂👍😜😉😀👍
@TrainBub posted:Well here’s hoping the Daylight cars, C&O steam, and Kraus Maffei are Very Soon being pack up into a container for shipment to US. 🤞🤞🤞 The sooner these products set sail, the happier a lot of us will be !!! 😬🙂👍😜😉😀👍
I hope so, but if I am expecting further delays based on the holidays and the news reporting on this issue. They will get here eventually, just maybe not by the end of February. Items from other manufacturers are being delayed by months. I think that February is very optimistic. I hope to be proven wrong.
@Jtrain posted:I hope so, but if I am expecting further delays based on the holidays and the news reporting on this issue. They will get here eventually, just maybe not by the end of February. Items from other manufacturers are being delayed by months. I think that February is very optimistic. I hope to be proven wrong.
I see your point. However, in the past Scott's reports on his production samples have always preceded actual shipment by a relatively short period of time - although I'll be corrected by anyone here who's had a closer involvement in this particular project than I have.
The dome car does look spectacular, and I can't wait for mine to arrive although, based on what I know and your info, I suspect it will be roughly 3-4 months until it does.
Regarding shipping. Scott was pretty clear. With all the shipping/container fubars going on the cost of shipping across the Pacific has gone up 5X+ over the past year. And yes it is pure supply and demand, their costs are pretty stable. Shipping alone would significantly cost more than Scott would make on the models if he just got the first available container. So he had to get creative and work with others in the same situation. The date he has given is the date that a container is available in China that they came up with. So that date its firm. Or at least as firm as anything from Asia can be at the moment given the political tensions going on over there.
Getting the container from Long Beach to San Ramon is the iffiest part schedule wise. The UP is probably the biggest impediment to clearing the port generally so long haul trucks are doing most of the transport.
I live along the UP main over Donner and have not seen any increase in traffic from the Port of Oakland eastbound. And that port is not saturated. But the shipping companies, the ones that operate container ships, don't want to come to the port of Oakland. So they sit off of Long Beach for weeks.
Scott, Wow it's absolutely amazingly beautiful. Bravo!
Scott you are the miracle worker!
@TrainBub posted:I’d love to see a third run of the PAs. The Models are ALL beautiful. I’m Very happy with my SP NKP and MP. I’d like to see a SP Bloody Nose version and MP Jenks Blue version offered in a run 3.
Boy. So many offerings in the Q now though and production/delivery is SO SLOW !!!!!! 🤔
E1, EA, SD40-2, EP3, E6, Alco FA, P42 offerings alone probably takes us deep into 2024. 🤭😮.
Yep. A heck of a jam up. 😳😳😳. I guess we just have to be patient
😑☹️😵💫🤯.Just keep the beauties coming Scott !!!😬
I would like to see a 3rd run of PA's as well I need a set of SF's and UP's.
Can’t wait to get these cars. My Vision Line SP GS-3 is lonely…
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Its also on Youtube under title
GGD SP Daylight Samples Dec 2.
No link allowed from Youtube.
I wonder if that's because the video was listed as "for kids" (viewing on YT shows a "YouTube Kids" banner underneath...all sorts of normal features are disabled on videos tagged as such, and sometimes YT will tag a video as "for kids" without the uploader specifying so.
---PCJ
Samples look marvelous 
@TrainBub posted:I emailed but no response and also still no picture AND it’s gone from the reservations page.
I'm curious to find out if the Amtrak reservations were again minimal just like the full dome. Its possible some may have balked at the final price of the Amtrak 3/4 and backed out....making another hard to find Amtrak Heritage car!
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:I'm curious to find out if the Amtrak reservations were again minimal just like the full dome. Its possible some may have balked at the final price of the Amtrak 3/4 and backed out....making another hard to find Amtrak Heritage car!
I got the bill for the Amtrak 3/4 dome. So its being made.
