Back in 2017, I was able to get my hands on a single Viewliner sleeper, which was a brass model imported by Overland from South Korea.
I am pleased to announce that I was able to source 3 additional cars, with unique road numbers, off eBay in 2020.
They will grace the Silver service trains as operating sessions restart sometime in late 2021 or early 2022.
Interestingly, on eBay right now, there is a Walthers run Viewliner with a buy it now price of $199.99 on it; it is a BIN listing. Auction Link Crazy stuff. I note that I only paid another hundred bucks for a brass car on all of them that I purchased.
No new releases of Viewliners seems to be in the offing and I haven't see any movement about a Viewliner II model either being mass produced.
There is, again on eBay, 2 listings of interest.
First is a custom produced Viewliner II baggage car. Viewliner II Auction As I write this, current bid is $100, on a car that has a detail level right out of the 1990's Athearn blue box kits.
Even better, another 3D printed car, for a baggage dorm Viewliner (which I didn't know was a thing), with a $289 BIN price on it. Viewliner II Dorm? Detail level is better than this first car I linked, but not by much. You can see the layers from the 3D printing process when you examine the car end shot.
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