cars will be decorated for Norfolk Southern (red oxide body),
Southern (red oxide body), SP/UP (boxcar red with UP shield),
and SP Golden West Service as seen above. The HO scale
ready-to-run cars are weighted with a one-piece die-cast
underframe.
Walthers has
scheduled a
second quarter
release date
for its Mainline
series of 53’
rebuilt Husky
Stack well
cars. The all-
purpose well
car can handle 20’, 40’, 45’, 48’, and 53’ contain-
ers. Road names will be TTX, FEC (yellow), FEC (min-
eral red), St. Mary’s Railway West, and undecorated.
The HO scale ready-to-run models will be available indi-
vidually at an MSRP of $24.98 and in 3-packs at $69.98.
WrightTRAK RailroadModels LLC
) has acquired
the HO scale product line of Smoky Mountain Model Works
(SMMW). According to the announcement, all of the HO scale
kits formerly sold by SMMWare nowavailable fromWrightTRAK.
The list includes a Southern Railway Pullman-Standard gondola
priced at $44.95. The gondola is available in both the as-delivered
railroad Roman lettering and the later block lettering style. Also
currently available are two versions of the Tennessee Central box-
car built by Pullman-Standard in 1941 and humorously labeled
by railroad historians as the PS-0. Both the as-built version and
Prototype photo courtesy of Darin Umlauft
January News column - 15
underbody including all brake equipment, and 33” metal
wheelsets. Available roads will be Baltimore & Ohio, CB&Q,
GSX, and Northern Pacific as seen here. The ready-to-run mod-
els have an MSRP of $34.98 each.
Walthers plans to release its 54’ UTLX 23,000 gallon funnel
flow tank car in six road names late this month. Features on
the HO scale model include a newly-tooled etched-metal
walkway and loading platform, separate grab irons, road-spe-
cific placement of manways and safety valves, complete train
line and brake rigging, and 36” metal wheel sets. Decorating
schemes include Cargill, CELX/Celtran, SHPX/Kerr-McGee,
Procor, SUNX/Sunoco, and ADMX- Archer-Daniels-Midland as
seen above. WalthersProto™ ready-to-run models have an
MSRP of $37.98 each.
Walthers Mainline series hopper cars will be available late next
month at an MSRP of $24.98 each. The 34’ 100-ton two-bay
MRH-Jan 2013
