Hey folks,
I'm curious how many of you are holding off of getting Lionel's ex-RailKing P42 Amtrak 50th Anniversary engine(s) in the hopes that Atlas will do a run of the 50th anniversary liveries with their newly-purchased ex-Premier P42 tooling from MTH. I'm in the holdout camp, as I would want the size/detail to match my existing MTH Genesis engines. I continue to be hopeful, but I couldn't help but notice that Atlas did not make any sort of announcement before or participate in TrainWorld's Amtrak event this week. All of the manufacturer's involved in that event have licensed Amtrak's liveries and logos, and I'm wondering if Atlas is taking those same steps. MTH never was an official licensee AFAIK, and I suppose Atlas doesn't need to be one, either, but there seems to be a definite push to be "official" when it comes to Amtrak licensing these days. On the flip side, one may quite reasonably argue that Atlas wouldn't have ponied up for the Genesis tooling if they weren't going to produce some Amtrak engines (VIA, New Haven and Metro North liveries notwithstanding, of course).
Anyway, I'm just curious what others are thinking. I'm jonesing for a midnight blue scale Genesis in the worst way--here's hoping Atlas pulls through.
Rafi