Got the Lionel 6-15312 Santa Fe Super Chief Aluminum Passenger Car 4 Pack!

Congrats!! I wish your grand nephew the best.  They can do wonderful things with medicine today.

Orrin

Hello Orrin,

Thank you for the congrats and the good wish for my grand nephew. I believe he has the best care. You are so right about medicine these days!  Also, every fun thing we do as a family makes us stronger, and almost everyone in my family loves trains.

I will have three full trains set up on train day, and my brother will bring his Polar Express, too. He is going to flip when he sees my new Warbonnet AA. That is what he had as a child, and that is what drew me to Warbonnets. He had freight cars and always wanted passenger cars, but never got them. Now he can run mine. 

Santafay

Congratulations. Those passenger sets, the 15312 4-pak and 29152 2-pak, are as nice as any sets made in O gauge, in my opinion. Aluminum with detailed die cast sprung trucks, separately applied add-on vents, grab handles and antennas, detailed painted interiors and hand-painted figures, switchable on/off lighting, etc. And the finishes really are gorgeous. I have the 4 and 2 car sets, with an additional vista dome and sleeper from another 4 car set, and they are some of my favorite passenger cars. I know you'll enjoy yours.

Hi Breezinup,

Thank you for the congratulations, you lucky guy, you! Wow, you have eight of these cars?! That must be impressive on the track! Your description of them painted a great picture. I would love to see them run if you ever post a video of them.

What do you use to pull all those Santa Fe Super Chief cars? I bought Lionel 6-82290 Santa Fe FT AA Lion Chief Plus Warbonnet with Dummy Unit. Each is numbered 164. I wanted a Warbonnet that was not too long, and I just had to get the Lion Chief Plus when I saw it. I understand it is an early engine to use to pull the Super Chief, but I was told FTs were incorporated into the Super Chief passenger trains at times.  Can you enlighten me about that?

I was thinking of adding a powered B unit. Now I am trying to figure out how to make it fit attractively in my cabinet.

Santafay

Hoping the young man does well and you enjoy the trains with your family. Orrin is right, what they can do with modern medicine is simply amazing. Been helping out with projects for the local pediatric brain tumor center for years. They treated a sweet friend who had a tumor at 5, she is now a lovely young mother about 20 years later, I send her gram a new picture of me and the surgeon every year. (And remind her he's the older one!)

Hello BobbyD,

Thank you for the good wishes and for the great success story. That must be quite an experience doing projects at a pediatric brain tumor center.

I am very excited for my family to see this new train. The kids will love the detailed interiors of these passenger cars and their super sleek exteriors. I will also have about twenty cars on a Lionel ATSF (Hudson 4-6-4) freight train, and a small ready-to-run Santa Fe freight train, too. My brother's Polar Express will make four trains for everyone to operate, all with separate controls, on train day.

I bought a whole box of the long pieces of fastrack, which is my first fastrack. I already have lots more of the other track. These trains will be set up in a basement apartment I have been building and the loops will be very large. 

The three year old's cancer is PNET and the brain tumors are considered inoperable because of their locations. The medical staff at Seattle Childrens has been doing backflips to save him. He has been through their advanced chemotherapy and graduates today from the SCCA Proton Center at Northwest Hospital.  

Lots of kids love trains. I am sure many kids in cancer programs would love to have a train day. It is something they can do with little energy. Being able to operate something with a lot of power can provide a release, and also a feeling of control. When the sick kids are losing energy, losing choices, enduring discomfort, and unable to be very active, trains can be wonderful medicine. What better way to share a fun hobby!

Santafay