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Briefly noted at press time...
. . . Here’s a quick summary of some of the new items shown at
the recent Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show.
MTH
displayed an early production sample of its O scale GP30
with Proto-Sound 3.0 decorated for Norfolk Southern, Burling-
ton, Chessie, and Alaska Railroad. The MSRP is $439.95.
InterMountain Railway
displayed both HO and N scale samples
of an ACF two-bay covered hopper with new paint schemes.
They included The Rock, ACFX-Saskatchewan Minerals, CNW,
Southern, BN (green), BNSF (boxcar red), GTW and Great
Northern.
Atlas O
showed samples of its Trainman® series 62’ bulkhead
flat cars scheduled for release during the second quarter of this
year. Road names will be BNSF, CP, IC, TTPX, and UP. Cars with
3-rail trucks will have an MSRP of $46.95, 2-rail at $49.95.
Also in the Atlas booth were N scale Thrall 4750 cu ft cov-
ered hopper cars scheduled for release this quarter. Road
names will be First Union Rail, Illinois Grain, Scoular, and
SSAM. The cars have an MSRP of $22.95. Undecorated ver-
sions will list at $18.95.
For the HO crowd, Atlas showed its ACF 23,500 gallon general
purpose insulated tank car in six new paint schemes including
Ennar Latex, Exxon, Invista, J&J Railcar Leasing, and Southern
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Rail Associates. The MSRP will be $32.95 with an undecorated
model listing at $27.95.
Fox Valley
released its 2013 schedule which includes class
M-53 wagon top boxcars decorated for three well-known mod-
el railroads: Allegheny Midland, Virginia & Ohio, and Cumber-
land Valley System. Prototype roads will include B&O in a bold
billboard scheme. All of the above cars will have Youngstown
doors. Flat door versions of the M-53 wagon top cars will be
available for B&O Express (green), and the 1939 Worlds Fair.
HO models will be priced at $30.95 with N scale versions priced
at $19.95.
Additional N scale items on Fox Valley’s production schedule in-
clude three body styles of a B&O Canstock car, three-bay class
H-30 hopper cars, and Milwaukee Road rib-side cabooses with
oil tanks and modernized end ladders with splash guards. Paint
schemes on the caboose will include MOW and St. Maries
River. Fox Valley said both HO and N scale models of a Silver-
side gondola built from Southern Railway blueprints will be
released later this year.
. . .
Charles Martin Lofton,
founder of Sunshine Models died
in Springfield, Missouri, January 4, 2013. He had been ill for
several months. Known to his friends and associates as Mar-
tin, he and his supportive wife Tricia have supplied hobby-
ists with detailed HO scale cast resin freight car kits for the
past 30 years. The Loftons are credited with helping to build a
national community of prototype modelers through their an-
nual RPM meet which they introduced in Naperville, IIlinois,
in 1993. Martin was a member of the first graduating class of
the Air Force Academy in 1959 and served his country as a pi-
lot during the Viet Nam War. In addition to his wife Patricia,
Martin is survived by a son, Charles, and daughter, Elizabeth,
who also graduated from the Air Force Academy. RHB.
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MRH-Feb 2013
