QUOTE (Geoff Booth @ 30 Jun 2007, 11:01)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>This route dominates my rolling stock selection although I am looking forward to the Hobbytrain double deckers although that clearly needs patience. Perhaps some Austrian visitors idc!
Austrian visitors are always a good idea! That makes three of us on the forum so far looking forward to the IC2000 coaches. I wonder when they will finally arrive having been promised since about 2005/6 I think? Now that Hobbytrain have unveiled the TGV POS (a Thalys repaint) then fingers crossed they will turn their attention to the double-deckers! Their website says August, I notice advance orders are possible through M.G.Sharp at not too unreasonable prices compared to the usual mark up for the UK, and a shop in the USA suggests release in December...so who knows?!
I am confident they will be worth the wait though. I would start a thread on it but it could be rather quiet for another six months! Also with European N scale I'm never sure whether it should be posted in 'N Gauge' (which is 1:148 instead and possibly isn't read so much) or 'H0 and International' where it risks annoying H0 modellers if they don't spot the different scale...(der! It's got Rapidos!!
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Im still deciding on which standard configuration to operate, I suppose the shortest* that features all the different types so I don't break the bank!
AD-A-B-B-B-Bt
AD-A-A-B-B-Bt
AD-A-A-B-B-B-Bt
AD-A-A-WRB-B-B-B-Bt*
AD-A-A-WRB-B-B-B-B-Bt
AD-A-A-A-WRB-B-B-B-B-Bt
It isn't clear yet which version of the bistro/restaurant car Hobbytrain are making is it? (Since originally catering was confined to a cramped Bistro on the lower deck and after repeated complaints the upper deck was rebuilt in ~2002 to offer a full restaurant as well as the Bistro service.) I think it will be the Bistro version...
Goedel
