Bowser is now selling an HO scale version of an ALCo Century
C-630 diesel locomotive. The Executive series ready-to-run
model has brass MU and air hoses, etched windshield wipers,
steel grab irons, steel uncoupling lever, operating headlight,
and window glass.
Depending on the prototype being modeled, Bowser’s C-630
will come with either General Electric HiAd™ or GSC Tri-Mount
trucks (see sidebar). Bowser is offering the HO scale ready-to-
run model in sixteen different decorating schemes including
Reading (Bee Line scheme with GE Hi-Ad™ trucks), Reading
(Rocket II version with Tri-Mount trucks), Penn Central (large,
small, or red PC logo, all with Tri-Mount trucks), Conrail Patch
(ex-PRR and ex-Reading with Tri-Mount trucks, also ex-Reading
with HiAd™ trucks), Conrail (blue with a choice of Tri-Mount
or HiAd™ trucks), C&O (HiAd™ trucks), Southern Pacific,
Pennsylvania, and Union Pacific (all with Tri-Mount trucks). The
DC model will be $189.95, with the SoundTraxx Tsunami DCC
digital decoder version priced at $299.95.
Funaro & Camerlengo
has
kits for two versions
of a 36’ rebuilt New
Haven double-sheathed
wood boxcar. Item
5093, shown here, has
Youngstown steel doors
and Dreadnaught ends. Item 5094 has wood doors and braced
ends. These HO scale kits are composed of one-piece cast
resin bodies, detail parts, and appropriate decals. The kits are
priced at $44.99 each. Trucks and couplers are not included.
InterMountain Railway
has
announced plans to produce an HO scale GP16. For those not
High Adhesion Trucks
High adhesion diesel locomotive trucks are designed
to minimize the weight transfer that takes place within
the truck when a locomotive accelerates, especially as
it is getting under way. The problem is similar to what
you experience in an automobile when, during accelera-
tion, the rear hunkers down and lifts weight off the front
end. General Electric’s HiAd™ trucks utilize mechani-
cal design characteristics and microprocessors to con-
trol weight transfer and wheelslip. General Steel Casting
Corporation’s Tri-Mount truck minimizes weight transfer
with a three-point support for the locomotive body. In
addition to the truck center plate, pads on the top sur-
face of each truck sideframe mate with slide plates on
the underside of the locomotive frame.
February News column - 12
MRH-Feb 2013
