HO Scale Talgo Series VI

The complete 13-car Talgo Series VI in HO scale: assembled, unpainted and ready for your paint shop, with an interior in every passenger car and a functional rodal at every joint. Choose Unlighted or Lighted. The first production run is 25 sets.

About the prototype

In 1996, Washington State set out to give the Pacific Northwest a faster, more modern train, and chose Talgo to build it. The Series VI trainsets entered service in 1999 as the face of the new Amtrak Cascades, linking Eugene, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, along one of the most scenic routes in North America.

Each set is a string of short, low cars riding on shared single-axle rodals, with a Power car at one end and a Baggage car at the other. The car bodies hang from the tops of their suspension columns, so the whole train leans naturally into curves and takes them faster than conventional coaches, with no tilting machinery at all. The Power car’s tall batwing end bridges the step from the locomotive down to the low Talgo cars.

Named for the great peaks of the Northwest, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Mount Hood and Mount Olympus, and joined by a fifth set in 2004, the Series VI trainsets carried more than 14 million passengers and became one of the most recognisable trains in the country. A Series VI Bistro car is preserved at the Northwest Railway Museum.

Features

• Complete 13-car Series VI consist: Power car, Business, Accessible Business, Dining, Bistro, Accessible Coach, six Coaches and Baggage car
• Assembled cars, supplied unpainted for your choice of scheme
• Painting stencils included
• Resin-printed shells and interiors for crisp detail, on chassis filament-printed in PETG for strength and heat resistance
• One-piece resin interior in every passenger car
• Functional rodal at every joint, shared between neighbouring cars as on the prototype
• Tall batwing end on the Power car
• Slide-in PCB end-light boards for the Power and Baggage cars, each with two white ditch lights and two red markers (Lighted)
• Left ditch light, right ditch light and markers on separate decoder functions (Lighted)
• PCB interior light boards (Lighted)
• Decoder-ready: ESU LokPilot 5 FX for the end lights, or LokSound 5 FX for the end lights plus head-end power (HEP) sound, sold separately
• Designed for continuous train power through every joint with the optional contacts: no plugs and no wires between cars (in prototype testing)
• Designed from the production CAD files and made in small batches in North Carolina

Specifications

• Scale: HO, 1:87.1
• Suggested minimum radius: 22″
• Cars: 13, assembled
• Shells and interiors: resin-printed
• Chassis: filament-printed in PETG, which holds its shape to about 70 °C (158 °F) and doesn’t soften until around 80 °C (176 °F)
• Finish: unpainted, with painting stencils
• Lighting: Lighted version only, PCB end-light and interior light boards for you to fit
• DCC: decoder-ready, decoders not included
• Wheels: not included, 36″ RP-25 metal wheels (14) needed
• Couplers: not included, Kadee
• Also needed: weights and assembly screws

Availability

• Price: Unlighted $799, Lighted $999 per set, plus taxes. You’ll see the final total before you buy.
• Deposit: none. Reserving is free, and you pay nothing until your set is ready.
• Reservations open: Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:00 am EDT
• First run: 25 sets, up to 3 per person. Want a mix of versions? Say so in the notes when you reserve.
• Expected delivery: from December 2026. Sets ship one at a time, in the order reservations are received.

How reserving works

• It’s free. A reservation isn’t a purchase, charge or deposit, and it doesn’t commit you to buying.
• We’ll email you a link to confirm. Your place counts once you click it, and unconfirmed holds are released after 24 hours.
• When all 25 are reserved, the form becomes a waitlist, and released sets go to the next person in line.
• Changed your mind? Your confirmation email has a link that releases your place.

More answers are in the FAQ.