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[random12multi]

Bachamen should make amtrack caifornia cars BACHMAN LOOK AT THIS another company has the engine but nobody has thecars PLEASE MAKE THEM

[Michigan Railfan]

Walthers makes the cars, but at an absurd price:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-16165

The product could be profitable, however, considering the price of the Walthers cars. It's doubtful that Bachmann will do this though.

[random12multi]

Walthers makes the cars, but at an absurd price:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-16165

The product could be profitable, however, considering the price of the Walthers cars. It's doubtful that Bachmann will do this though.

Surfliner cars how about that honestly they would make profit and it would be good for spectrume

[Doneldon]

Walthers and Bachmann both making the same limited interest items? Sounds
like TWO companies losing money to me!
                                                                 -- D

[random12multi]

Walthers and Bachmann both making the same limited interest items? Sounds
like TWO companies losing money to me!
                                                                 -- D

XD I geuss your right

[on30gn15]

Walthers makes the cars, but at an absurd price:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-16165

Given these points and how "it all adds up" the price may not be all that absurd after all:
"... revised Superliners feature a real-metal plated finish ..."
"* Full Upper & Lower Interior * " - sort of "1.75 cars worth in one body" 
"... and feature full underbody detail to match the prototypes, ..."

[Michigan Railfan]

Walthers makes the cars, but at an absurd price:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-16165

Given these points and how "it all adds up" the price may not be all that absurd after all:
"... revised Superliners feature a real-metal plated finish ..."
"* Full Upper & Lower Interior * " - sort of "1.75 cars worth in one body" 
"... and feature full underbody detail to match the prototypes, ..."

Yes, this is true. But, I have a couple of the new metal plated finish phase IV Superliners, and they would not be worth the price the California cars are. The detail is the same, just a different paint job. And they can get away with it considering they're the only ones making the cars and have no competition for them.

[on30gn15]

Given that even in the 1970s and 1980s prices for passenger cars, other than Athearn's "shake the box" kits, were often 3+ times the price of freight cars, $20 versus $6 or $7 for example, I am not going to see the price as absurd; more than I am willing to pay, true, but not absurd.

I'm willing to bet that at least one of y'all hasn't been around long enough to have been there and seen that.

Using this http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

A 1982 price of $20, which would have been a Rivarossi passenger car price and they were less detailed than current Walthers car in question. I also remember $24 from around the time.
The $20 would now be
"that same item would cost: $46.89        
Rate of inflation change: 134.4%"   

A $24 car of the time would now be $56.46.

[Doneldon]

Dilligent attention to ebay will allow you to build a modern (lightweight stainless) train of Lambert nickel-plated brass passenger cars with good trucks (maybe Central Valley) and possibly Kadees for less than the cost of many current plastic passenger cars.