Lowell has now announced the Texas Special dining car. the first release includes Katy’s “Sam Houston”: https://lowellsmith.net/product/rsm-sam-houston-texas-special-diner/
Lowell has announced two more Texas Special coaches: https://lowellsmith.net/product/texas-special-coach-pair-2/ this time the cars are both Frisco cars, “Olivette” and “Pasadena Hills” Paul
So while talking to Lowell about new announcements ( see http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index....m-railsmith-at-the-national-train-show.14061/ ), I was able to hold in my hands the new Baggage-RPO and Dinning car cars. These were unpainted tooling samples, but they are very nicely done. I look forward to seeing them painted. as discussed before, these are modeled after the Frisco and Katy lightweight cars.
Lowell snuck in another river series car for the Meteor. This time it is Meramec River https://lowellsmith.net/product/frisco-meramec-river-sleeper/
So apparently, this car was actually released at the National Train Show…. And I missed it when I was talking to Lowell. I put in my order, but Lowell now lists the cars as sold out.
