I think many are leary of purchasing Sunset products. Their history of
producing good running models is pretty dismal. They made four basic
engines--the Geeps with so-so quality and only average detail; the Big
Boy nice detail, a few bad solder joints but many barely run; the
Challenger is only marginally better than the BB; and that leaves the
narrow gauge K engine. I've heard good things about them.
Unfortunately I think Sunset is going to have to build one and demo it
around. When Charlie Sandersfielt introduced his MP 2-8-0 he demo'd it
at the last Sacramento convention. He was a new company and needed to
prove himself. In the case of Sunset, I think they have to crawl out of
a hole!
Now, I do believe that Southwind engines were based on the Sunset
'basic' engines. Those two seem to be good runners and solidly
constructed in my case. But I don't know how much involvement Sunset
had other than perhaps the drawings and design.
Bob Werre
On 6/16/11 3:49 PM, Howard Sheffield wrote:
> The last time I spoke with Sunset which was after their ad came out, I was
> told the same thing about not enough orders to date. I was also to be a
> dealer for his engines and tried to solicit them to the local guys in scale
> and hi rail both. I also discussed the fact that the engines needed more
> publicizing and was told that more ads would come out. I haven't seen any
> more ads since the first one.
>
> Howard Sheffield
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, ackerg wrote:
>
>> Yes the ad said due late 2010. But not enough resevations were placed to
>> give the go ahead in Korea. Sunset has received a 1/3 of the required
>> resevations. Sunset isn't asking for a deposit just that if you order an
>> engine you pick it up.
>> Sunset is interested in doing more "S" scale locomotives if the scalers
>> support the projects.
>> I have an e-mail in to Sunset asking if they'll do a set of passenger cars.
>> Sunset would need to see the suipport for the engine first. The P-8's and
>> P-10's pulled the "Overnight" boxcars from LA to SF and these cars are or
>> were avialable from AM and PRS.
>>
>>
>
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