GGD UP Heritage Fleet announced - with tenders!

I bet these are going to be absolutely gorgeous. I'm pretty happy with the die-cast tenders that Lionel has released, but I'll definitely pick up a complete excursion set.

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Hi Jeramiah,

That's great news! I will be up for a complete set. I like the Lionel cars that i have acquired from cobbling together pieces from various years, but i would be the GGD version would have that extra quality and feature that was seen when they did the Southern Pacific sets for example.

I look forward to more details of timing and price, hoping these are not too far off in the future.

- Kden Gillig

Talked to Scott yesterday at the March Meet, these cars are going to be fantastic.  Thanked him from all of us who wanted these.  

Can hardly wait for the order link…or delivery!

Some info available now on Third and Townsend Models O Scale Preorder page: https://www.thirdandtownsendmodels.com/oscalepreorder

I'll definitely be in for the two water cars and the 2066 power car. I've already got most of what I need from Lionel. I'm sure these will be considerably better but I'm trying to scale back my purchasing these days.

I’ll definitely be in for tenders and a power car. I’m waiting to see pricing to decide if I want any more cars. Well I might want them but what I want to spend money on 😅

So nice to see all these and passenger cars with ball bearings!

If I could, I'd buy the whole train... and a full set of SP for my Daylights..... and the NYC ones... and the chargers...

great time to be in O scale. It will be exciting to see these.

The 3-D printed posts were edited out of this thread.  They belong in the 3-D category.

There will be two different sets available and off course offerings for various add-on cars, but that is still to be determined.  It should be a very exciting set.  Still a lot of planning to do though!

Jonathan, I sure would like to see a 1950’s U P set to accompany the yet to be made Sunset Erie built diesels. The UP cars could also be a big part of a 1970’s AUTO- TRAIN.

@GG1 4877 posted:

There will be two different sets available and off course offerings for various add-on cars, but that is still to be determined.  It should be a very exciting set.  Still a lot of planning to do though!

I don't think Scott would do this but it wouldn't hurt to ask here, and ask you too, I did see some of the preliminary ad on cars that was potentially going to be offered. Would it be possible to make all the cars add-ons just in case you want to buy one of the sets and add on more than what has been preliminarily announced? I would like to get a set and cars from another, without reserving 2 sets and selling off the majority of the 2nd set.

@SDIV Tim posted:

I don't think Scott would do this but it wouldn't hurt to ask here, and ask you too, I did see some of the preliminary ad on cars that was potentially going to be offered. Would it be possible to make all the cars add-ons just in case you want to buy one of the sets and add on more than what has been preliminarily announced? I would like to get a set and cars from another, without reserving 2 sets and selling off the majority of the 2nd set.

Agreed - someone who buys both sets ends up with three duplicate cars (the two coaches and an extra power car).  Maybe GGD would consider doing four sleepers (two different ones per set) instead of coaches and have the coaches as add-ons?

As always, these new announcements take a little time to shake out.  There will certainly be add-on car options, they just need to be determined.  Stay tuned for updates!

Real life observations of UP 4014 BB trains .... in relation to GGD offerings being planned ...

The two GGD sets that were described had cars, which UP had since coming out in 2019 always were together, but in the sets one car in one set and another car in the other set. For example: Walter Dean and City of Denver.

Thee were some cars that were in almost all the real life trains - Howard Fogg, Lynn Nystrom always follows Art Lockman ... granted these are upfront baggage redone cars but always present - and these are not yet in the sets are as extras.

Early BB tour trains had a Theatre like care as last car ("Idaho") then later "Lincoln" business car as last car.

There seemed to be two Power cars - 2055 and 2066, but i haver no yet tracked with what versions of the tour trains.

You al most need to look at all trains since 2019 and document which cars with which train by year or tour or both.

It will be interesting to see which GGD cars are committed to be made and in what grouping(s).

- Ken

It looks like the set configurations have been updated (copied from https://www.goldengatedepot.co...tion.html#UPHERITAGE on 03/26/25):

Cars Included in Set A: ($3359)

- Promontory Baggage Car (Experience The UP)

- Texas Eagle Coach Car

- 2066 Power Car

- Walter Dean Dome Lounge

- Columbia Deluxe Sleeper

- Overland Dining Car

- Feather River Business Car

- Idaho Theater Car

Cars Included in Set B: ($3359)

- Council Bluffs Baggage Car (Flag Baggage)

- Howard Fogg Power Car

- Portland Rose Coach Cars

- Harriman Dome Lounge

- Green River Deluxe Sleeper

- City of Denver Dining Car

- Kenefick Business Car

- Fox River Theater Car

Add on Cars:

- Fox River Theater Car ($599.95)

- Idaho Theater Car ($599.95)

- Standard UP Baggage 2 Truck (same as other two in sets but in UP Amour Yellow) ($419.95)

- Standard UP Baggage 3 Truck (same as other two in sets but in UP Amour Yellow) ($419.95)

- Dome Coach Columbine ($599.95)

- Dome Coach Challenger ($599.95)

- 2066 Power Car ($599.95)

- Howard Fogg Power Car ($599.95)

- St. Louis Business Car ($599.95)

- Cheyenne Business Car ($599.95)

- Lincoln Business Car ($599.95)

And pricing is now listed on the order page:

Personally, I'm not a particular fan of the theater cars and would prefer if they were dropped from the sets and were exchanged with a dome. However, I'm sure other people feel the opposite way. I would just prefer that if you buy two of the sets that when you run them together you don't end up with 3 business/theater cars sitting while one runs. So, maybe the ideal solution is to take the theater/business cars out of the sets and put unique chair/coach cars in instead?

Oh wow. Look at that. I seem to have become very poor, very quicky. I'm very excited about these.

BUT  with the 2066 Power car have two rotating fans and a smoke unit??

@AlanRail posted:

BUT  with the 2066 Power car have two rotating fans and a smoke unit??

Perhaps if you add them.  E.g. I plan to harvest the Legacy electronics from my two quasi-prototypical Lionel aux tenders and install them in these upcoming GGD beauties.  Then I'll sell the empty Lionel tenders, along with all of my other Lionel UP cars.

I'm still going to order the cars I need but $600 a piece is expensive, even by GGD standards.