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My hope is that this is just an indication that Kato is re-tooling the E8 (it has been around for 25 (?) years now) for a passenger train release next year. Had a few shells and chassis sitting around in Japan from the last production run, and somebody in Schaumburg had a bright idea, and they shipped them over from the factory to a custom painter.
For their regular run products Kato usually seems to have a delay on the DCC & sound upgrades.