Modeling Passenger Trains, Yay or Nay?

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suspect that one reason that modern passenger paint schemes are hard to find is that Walthers has an exclusive licensing agreement with AmTrak to produce their paint schemes and reproduce their trains.

Sound reasoning on most of the Walthers stuff, but both Atlas and Bachmann produce Amtrak equipment (some would argue that despite paint scheme flaws, the Bachmann Amfleet I car is actually more realistic compared to the Walthers version).

As far as Athearn is concerned, I don't even think they ever did offer even a modern passenger car that wasn't a Bombardier Bi-level or an older streamliner in "new' colors.