Dear Joe

I would say you are somewhere in the ball park as the shrink wrap around

the boxes showed some age and the boxes came apart at the seams. No big deal as

I easily repaired it with Elmers Glue and they are fine !!

To Williams credit they are beautifully packaged to protect them from any "trauma".

The attention to detail is impressive !!! the doors OPEN with a spring action !!!!

The lighting of the cars is very nicely done and the light distribution seems uniform

throughout the length of the car. Even the lanterns at the rear end of the

of the observation car light up!!!!! I am so tempted to look into 72' passenger cars

as the quality has really impressed me !!  I had to oil the wheels. I use Break Free

Collectors oil it has no harsh chemicals or solvents. The wheels rolled smoothly after

that!!!!! Like I mentioned previously if you are even half considering these cars and

find go for it you won't regret it



More Later!!!!

Finally started to open the 72' Blue Comet Madison Cars.

On initial looks  WOW!!  Williams did an awesome job.

We are still in Baseball playoff's and I will be out of town a few days for Semi-finals.

Then I can give more details. If you come across these passenger cars

GRAB THEM !!! The colours, the detail very very nice!!!!!

Does anyone know when Williams came out with these sets??

The Team won again last night so we were home late last night

Tonight we have a double header. Very tough team!

We will open the Blue Comets sometime Saturday and then I will post comments.

I also found a Williams Blue Hudson New Jersey O-Gauge!!!!!!!!!

Hobby Shop said they would put it on Lay-Away if I want.

Is this the one to pull the Blue Comet Madison's!!

That blue is really sharp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You

Great sities!!!!!!

In my search for passenger cars of the ACL and Sea Coast Line

I came across a really interesting web site which deals with all

kinds of topics on Railroading. One which I found interesting was a section
titled "FallenFlags".
Thought many of you would be interested

Dear Joe

I googled and where i eventually came up was at

www.american-rails.com

It is an incredible web site of information about nearly all the rail lines.

It had a section on Fallen flags where there were good overviews of any of

the rail lines. In was Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line. The only

thing missing were the colour schemes of the passenger cars. Throughout the articles

are small 1-2 minute videos. It is worth a look at for any rail line someone may be

interested in.

I'll keep looking for colour schemes and post what I come up with when I find it!!!

Anyone that goes can they post a report about the event?

Sorry for taking so long..

Hope to open the 4-car Blue Comet 72' Passenger cars later this week or by the

weekend. My 13 year old is in All-Stars and they are having one exciting series of

Tournaments and we have to do a lot of traveling.
"Joey" keeps begging to open them up.

Later

Hey Joe

I reread that link  you posted above and  the last sentence refers to Seaboard Coast Line.

Do you have any reference I can go to,to see what those passenger cars looked like ??

Thanks !!!!

Outstanding layout!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do we mere mortals make rocks that look that way???

Hotel is cool too!!!

i will add

pricing makes a BIG difference and because Bachmann has good pricing on

quality constructed products it has enabled me  to go ahead and purchase something

I may have wanted but stopped short becuz of the price

Last night came home early enough to open the 2-Car set of the

Blue Comet. Very impressive !!!!!!!!!!!

The colors are very well done. There is a lot of attention to detail.

Since I am still learning about "model" size. I was so excited to find

Blue Comet Passenger cars I didn't pay attention that they were 72'

They are BIG !! and look real impressive on the track. When my wife came

down stairs to get "Joey " for bed she stopped and looked and said,

"Wow, those are really nice"  (word for word quote!!!)

Will try to get the 4 car set open tonight and report back .  They barely make the

O-36 curves so I plan to go with some O-60  on the outer layout  !!!

Later!!

Thanks Joe

What a treat to see all the ACL color!!!!

At least I know it was done !!!!

Until I can get to the Hardware store I used some melted wax on the screw

then screwed it back in. Last night my son ran the loco for about a half hour and

it was still holding!!!!!

Thanks will do and will report back