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Austrains American End "FO" Passenger Cars

News Flash. We have put some photos up of the new models, below.

NEW 22-7-2011 - FO Passenger Car Images online

Expected delivery date is late second quarter 2012.

We now have factory painted samples and final running models of these cars.
Under normal circumstances we should now be able to go into production. Unfortunately we have still not been able to sign off for production as we are far from happy with the end handrails. Our original specification was for these to be metal construction. Against our wishes the factory made them in moulded plastic.

Unfortunately this has proved far from satisfactory and we are in (heated) discussion with the factory about how to resolve the problem. It’s frustrating to be so near and yet so far from production but the problem will be resolved soon. This has, of course, caused delivery delays and expected delivery date is late second quarter 2012.

Because of the delay we have extended the Advance Order price until the end of January, 2012. A six car set of FO’s will cost $595.00 on Advance Order. This price can be held by a deposit of $100.00. After that the price will rise to a yet to be decided level. Additional two car sets of FO’s will initially be $200.00.

A premium of $20 applies to the price of FO two car sets ordered separately to six car sets. This premium does not apply to two car sets containing CCA cars.

< link to order form >

Instead of restricting purchasers to one or two particular sets the coaches in each set will be un numbered but each set will be supplied with a booklet with a history of the cars and a list of coaches which made up each set. A decal sheet covering all possible cars will be provided with each set of cars for the purchaser to make up a set as they choose.

These are really neat little coaches. A train of six is around four feet long ( suitable for almost every layout ) and they were hauled at some time or place by almost every steam locomotive on the NSWGR and most first generation diesels. A complete history of these coaches is contained in the book Coaching Stock of the NSWGR volume 2. ( Still in print from Eveleigh Press and a must read for everyone modeling the railways of NSW).

The production run of the American End Platform Cars will be limited to 750 six car sets only plus CCA sets and add ons.

No rerun is scheduled.

New FO Passenger Cars images LINK

Order Form - FO Platform End Cars

• Download FO Platform End Cars - Order Form HERE (PDF format 8KB)

 

 

• FO "American End" Platform Cars - Line Drawing - LINK (PDF Format 201KB)