Atlas is offering individual Heavyweight Madison Cars without markings, but still painted Pullman Green with black roofs. We are planning to buy these and redecorate them for our customers that would like heavyweight cars that either haven't been done or are hard to find. Our plan is to do these in 7 car sets - Baggage; Combo; RPO; Diner, 2 Coaches and an Observation and offering the sets for $899.95.
These are the road names that have been requested so far:
- Pere Marquette
- Louisville & Nashville
- Burlington
- FEC
- Maine Central
- Pennsylvania
- Rutland
- Western Maryland
- Illinois Central
- Union Pacific
- MKT
- Reading Company
- TP&W
- Nacionales de Mexico
- Penn Central
- Nickel Plate Road
- Central of Georgia
To make the creation of the lettering sets more cost effective, I would like 5 preorders of each set in order to get them made.
These cars will be decaled and not pad printed. Now before you turn your nose up in disgust over decals, check out the picture of my Challenger Tender in Western Maryland, below. This tender left MTH as Denver & Rio Grande and its been re-lettered, decorated and weathered as Western Maryland. The Heavyweights don't need to be weathered - but they need the slight overspray to blend the lettering in. Pretty terrific job!
You can go here to place your preorder - no payment is required.
If you'd like to see something else run, let me know. I can also have a different paint scheme run, something different than Pullman green, but that's going to add $400-500 to the price of the 7 car set
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