AZL February New Releases - Part 1

February 2013 New Release – Part 1

February is another HUGE month for Z scale releases. So here is part one!



CSX EMD GP38-2s:
62506-1 CSX GP38-2 2504 - MSRP $99.00
62506-2 CSX GP38-2 2517 - MSRP $99.00
62506-3 CSX GP38-2 2533 - MSRP $99.00
62506-4 CSX GP38-2 2534 - MSRP $99.00



2420 Cubic Foot Waffle Gondolas:
902410-1 CR 2420 Waffle Gondola 607300, 607309, 607316, 607317 Set 1 - MSRP $117.00
912410-1 CR 2420 Waffle Gondola 607318 Single - MSRP $32.00

NOTE: Due to production shortages of the Conrail waffle gondolas, these are very limited. Check with your dealer for availability.



Centerbeams:
90355-1 TTX Centerbeam 857020, 857076, 857165, 857337 4 pack: "TTX" TTZX 857020, 857076, 857165, 857337 - MSRP $137.00
90355-2 TTX Centerbeam 857057, 857118, 857270, 857355 4 pack: "TTX" TTZX 857057, 857118, 857270, 857355 - MSRP $137.00
91355-1 TTX Centerbeam 857025 Single Car: "TTX" TTZX 857025 - MSRP $39.00
91355-2 TTX Centerbeam 857045 Single Car: "TTX" TTZX 857045 - MSRP $39.00
91355-3 TTX Centerbeam 857109 Single Car: "TTX" TTZX 857109 - MSRP $39.00

Heavyweight Passenger Coaches – Pullman Green:



71001-0 12-1 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71001-1 Orange County 12-1 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71001-2 St Carvan 12-1 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71001-3 McConaughy 12-1 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00



71101-0 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71101-1 Lake Augusta 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71101-2 Lake Sarah 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71101-3 Lake Vineyard 10-1-2 Pullman Sleeper PS Green - MSRP $48.00



71401-0 28-1 Parlor PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71401-1 Mill Creek 28-1 Parlor PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71401-2 Nancy 28-1 Parlor PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71401-3 Nina 28-1 Parlor PS Green - MSRP $48.00



71501-0 Dining Car PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71501-1 3 Dining Car PS Green - MSRP $48.00
71501-2 9 Dining Car PS Green - MSRP $48.00

Some road numbers / names of the Pullman Green cars are already sold out. Check with your dealer for availability.

NEW – BRASS UP CA-3 CABOOSES:

AZL is excited to announce the release of brass UP CA-3 cabooses. These cabooses are the perfect compliment to AZL’s Big Boy locomotives. These cabooses are a limited run.



40001 UP Caboose 3723 CA-3 (brown) - MSRP $179.00



40003-1 UP Caboose 25037 CA-3 (yellow) - MSRP $179.00
40003-2 UP Caboose 25078 CA-3 (yellow) - MSRP $179.00



40004 UP Caboose 903220 CA-3 (silver) - MSRP $179.00

Photos of all new items can be found at: www.americanzline.com/

We are now working on part 2 for this months releases. Additional Big Boys will be released later this month.

Rob Kluz

The names on these green pullmans... What road-names are they associated with?

I noticed that there is a list of the future road-name releases for the center-beams. Can you do this for the pullmans, too? It would be extremely helpful for planning purposes.

ThankZ

up until the settlement of the anti trust suit against Pullman Inc. The company owned and operated their sleepers, dinners and lounge cars on all railroads of North America. In the period after this breakup. the equipment, the cars themselves were owned by the railroads and The Pullman Inc.. the company incorporated in 1928 was broken up into two divisions.

The federal government said in its anti trust suit that the company had to divest itself of its operating operation or its production operation. The result was The Pullman Company operated the cars for the American railroads staffing them but no longer owning them. The the manufacturing of the cars became of the Pullman standard car manufacturing CO. from whom the railroads purchased their cars .

At the companies peak prior to WWII, the company owned and operated a fleet of 9800 cars with a staff of 40,000 including conductors, porters, waiters and cooks

So after 1944 cars carried railroad operating names and railroad specific care numbers and names, as the cars were owned by the railroad but still carried the Pullman banner if they were staffed and operated by the Pullman company. check out Wikipedia

ThankZ, Garth. As you so instructed, I took a look at wikipedia...

Pullman Company

A lot of good information, but it still doesn't answer my specific question of what railroads were operating specific paint schemes... such as this current release of green Pullmans.

FolkZ are wanting to know what future road-name releases are coming from AZL in this series. It would be helpful in knowing for financial reasons.

As Rob A has posted, there is a lot of detail in researching the Pullmans and it would be great to get him the post a summary of his research that is appropriate for their production of the cars and perhaps rough plan for release. I can tell you that WP ran the green and my understanding was that except for the major road like UP, NYC, PRR, that green was standard.
My understanding also is that named cars generally ran on roads where the name had meaning. So although I don't know for certain, but I'd expect the "Orange County" to be home-based in LA.

Mark

Or maybe Orange County, New York as in OCC from Aerican Choppers fame

Or Orange cty FL. But I'm not aware of either county being railroad related or tourist hot spots in the Pullman era.

tom Madden's pullmanproject dot.com has excel spreadsheets with data on all Pullman cars produced including date made date rebuilt and it is arranged by car name including car colours
www.pullmanproject.com/Database.htm

the majority of the cars built were pullman standard green and used in pool service so could be anywhere on any road. In going through the list PRR red seems sto be only other colour prior to WWII that hows up frequently. In athe post WWII erea you can see the various railroad colours right up to the stainless steel cars.

garthah wrote: the majority of the cars built were pullman standard green and used in pool service so could be anywhere on any road. In going through the list PRR red seems sto be only other colour prior to WWII that hows up frequently. In athe post WWII erea you can see the various railroad colours right up to the stainless steel cars.

I noticed this too, while going through the spreadsheet. This got me thinking ... I could easily make an excursion consist of the various releases.

You could also throw in the MTL and other pax cars to boot really there is room in the z sandbox for everyone and if one company makes passenger cars, it only means room for more types of engines and stations and all kids of stuff. These means more passenger cars and other stuff. Am I making sense here?

Mr.JA wrote: I could easily make an excursion consist of the various releases.

Here's an example of heavy wieght and smooth side and diesel power: www.yesteryeardepot.com/SP6216.JPG

A couple of Harriman coaches and you're on your way.

Here is another idea:

How about Amtrak during the rainbow transition. Granted cars would need weathering and AZL needs to take up MTL's loss of E8 in injection.