In the past discussions about the upcoming WKW HO scale Super Chief sets, someone mentioned that Walthers was simply reissuing one of the earlier sleepers for this set, while creating a new one to cover the other (I have my
4-4-2's and 10-6's confused at the moment).In speaking with someone who has the earlier Walthers passenger car releases, he claims to have checked the stock numbers on the boxes of the existing ATSF sleepers, against those of the upcoming cars, and Walthers has in fact issued all new stock numbers for both versions of the upcoming sleepers. None of the early sleepers' stock numbers (both 4-4-2's and 10-6's) match those of the upcoming versions.
So... is WKW simply rehashing the old model under a new number, or are they in fact doing a different version of the model this time around? It will be interesting to see...