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Briefly noted at press time...
. . . Look for
Athearn division of Horizon Hobby
)
to introduce at least three new locomotives this year. The iden-
tity of the first will be revealed at the Amherst Railroad Hobby
Show to be held later this month in West Springfield, Massa-
chusetts.
. . .
Imperial Hobby Production
of Wynnewood, Pennsylva-
nia
has completed tooling for a plastic
injection molded single-ended Kawasaki LRV decorated for
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
Although the non-powered HO scale model is being developed
for sale through SEPTA’s Gift Store, it seems likely that IHP will
eventually offer a power conversion kit for the static display
model. We’ll have additional details, including pre-production
photos, next month.
. . .
Atlas O
) will release its O scale ACF 8,000 gal-
lon type 27 riveted tank car with new decorating schemes
sometime during the third quarter of this year. Road names
will be Shipper’s Car Line, Champlin Refining, Colorado Animal
By-Products, Lion Oils, Omar Refining, and Shell Chemical. The
3-rail version of the ready-to-run model will have an MSRP of
$69.95, with the 2-rail edition listing at $74.95.
January News column - 22
Dan Kohlberg Decals
has introduced HO scale lettering sets for Illinois
Central Gulf GSC flat cars that were redecorated following
the IC and GM&O merger. The merger involved more than
1000 General Steel Casting flat cars of various classes. The
Kohlberg set has enough material to letter four different cars
and includes a decaling diagram for five classes of ICG cars.
Mount Vernon Shops
) is selling HO
scale decals for Pennsylvania Railroad class F22 and F23 flat cars.
Each set includes enough data to decorate two F22 and two F23
cars. Accurate HO scale models of the class F22 flats have been
offered in brass by Railworks, and both the F22 ad F23 are avail-
able as resin kits from Funaro & Camerlengo. In addition to
data for lettering the cars, decals are included for the large Load
Bridges available from American Model Builders. The loads were
numbered to match the cars they were assigned to.
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MRH-Jan 2013
