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85' Full-Dome Passenger Car
Amtrak (not pictured)
1974-1981 No.1254
1982-1990 No.43-1017-05
85' Full-Dome Passenger Car
Amtrak-Chrome (not pictured)
1978-1981 No.1257
According to Bachmann's 1978 that introduced this chrome plated example, the retail was $9.00.
85' Full-Dome Passenger Car
Auto-Train
1974-1979 No.1252
The Auto-Train 85' Full-Dome Passenger Car is the first example shown in Bachmann's catalogs beginning
in 1974. Below you may click on the image of the Auto-Train train set and find more information regarding this offering
that includes a pair of these passenger cars.
85' Full-Dome Passenger Car
Santa Fe (not pictured)
1975-1981 No.1255
1982 No.43-1017-02
85' Full-Dome Passenger Car
Santa Fe-Chrome (not pictured)
1978-1980 No.1258
Bachmann's first HO-scale passenger car is this 85' Full Domed Passenger
Car presented in the 1974 catalog. The Santa Fe roadname joins the Auto-Train and Amtrak listings in the 1974 catalog.
The Full Dome is priced at $10 in the '74 Bachmann catalog. The 1978 catalog includes the description "Unlighted"
for this car and the retail price is down to $8 for regular examples and $9 for chrome plated versions; however I see no suggestion
in prior catalogs that the $10 examples of 1974-77 were lighted.
Con-Cor announced an HO-scale full dome passenger car for 1975 delivery.
The car would have been the same prototype used by Bachmann's example that delivered around this same mid-'70s date.
Con-Cor's model never materialized. You may click on the image above to view a larger version of this announcement.
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