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The Red and Silver scheme car is not Sunset ,but were built for The Golden State Limited Train, and had names originally.
Sunset cars were built by Budd,everyone calls any red and silver SP cars with either a daylight red or scarlett red letterboard a Sunset car even if not regularly assigned to that train. The Eastern diner is a puzzle to me not many modern era diners featured platform loading doors at the dining room end.
I'm not as picky as you are when it comes to passenger cars... probably due to an exceedingly limited knowledge of them. I just like the look of a passenger train behind a set of zebra striped FP9A/F9B's. A mighty fine sight.
The Amtrak cars are ex-UP cars. Close, but a service door is missing and no vestibule at the end.AMTK 8096: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2132552AMTK 8097: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1925675It appears a Kato UP smoothside coach would be a better starting point to kitbash one of the two Amtrak diners. I have some spare UP coach bodyshells, so I might use the roof/ends from that and either etch or mill the sides.
You're having too much fun with the mill if you want to make it that complicated. The Kato smoothside diner is this car, UP prototype and all.
Is it really, including the belt rail down the center of the roof? Great! That makes things easy.Kato doesn't have the bodyshells in stock, but I'm sure I can track down one of the cars. I probably have one in the NYC set that I don't run anymore. I think I'll go that route, much much easier.
I see the NYC X-29's are returning. How cute...Frank