month. Six PRR decorating schemes for class H30 C-hop include
plain, circle, and shadow Keystone heralds on gray cars. Cars
painted red oxide will have a circle Keystone and a plain
Keystone with a black “S”. The plain Keystone will also be
applied to a car with a yellow body. Two of the 1973 cu ft tri-
ple-bay 10-hatch cement-hauler will be available in Penn
Central green (one for interchange and one designated for
MOW service). Gray cars decorated for Norfolk & Western and
Conrail will complete the run. Delivery of the newly–tooled HO
scale model will be this fall at an MSRP of $29.95.
Broadway Limited
will begin
shipping a new PRR 4-4-4-4 class T1 steam locomotive in
February. Features of the HO scale ready-to-run model include
Paragon2 sound and control system with synchronized smoke
and exhaust sound, integral DCC decoder with back EMF,
5-pole can motor, golden white LED headlight and rear light,
molded ABS plastic body, die cast metal chassis, metal Kadee-
compatible couplers, electrical pick up on all drive wheels,
separately applied handrails, ladders, whistle, and brass bell,
and operating cab roof vents. A minimum radius of 22” is
recommended for the model. BLI’s PRR T1 has an MSRP of
$499.99. Details on different liveries and road numbers avail-
able on this production run can be viewed on BLI’s website.
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Road names will be New York Central, Penn Central, Reading,
Seaboard Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville, CR Reading (patch),
Conrail (black), and Conrail.
Also Western New York & Pennsylvania (red), Western New
York & Pennsylvania (black), Morristown & Erie, Green Bay &
Western, Green Bay & Western (grey stripe), Susquehanna
(early scheme), Susquehanna (late scheme, above), and ALCo
demonstrator (below).
The Executive Line model will have separately-applied grab
irons, a can motor with flywheel, Kadee® couplers, and direc-
tional lighting with golden-white LEDs. The ready-to-run mod-
els will come with different fuel tanks, air intakes, and either
Hi-Adhesion or AAR ‘B’ trucks per prototype road practice.
Analog DC versions with an NMRA plug for an aftermarket DCC
decoder will have an MSRP of $199.95. DCC versions featuring
LokSound Select Dual –Mode decoder (for operation on DC or
DCC) will have an MSRP of $299.95.
Bowser has released more details on its new HO version of PRR
class H30 triple-bay covered hopper we reported on last
MRH-Jan 2013
