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Also URTX-Phenix Cheese, SLRX-St. Louis Refrigerator Car
Company (white sides), and URTX- Nucoa Best Foods (below).
In addition to their colorful sides, the reefers feature vertical
brake shafts, wood running boards, working ice hatches, and
Bettendorf-style 40-ton solid-bearing trucks. The ready-to-run
cars have an MSRP of $24.95 each. An undecorated model lists
for $13.95.
Atlas has sched-
uled a second pro-
duction run of its
N scale Trainman®
series 5250 cu ft
hopper car for
release in the third
quarter of 2013.
Three numbers each will be available for Atlantic & Western;
BFGX (blue body); Continental Polymers; Gulf (above); Eastman
Chemical; General
America; Lifeline
Foods; Monsanto;
Elgin, Joliet &
Eastern; and Borg
Warner (below).
The ready-
to-run four-bay covered hopper cars have an MSRP of
$16.95. Undecorated versions will have a list price of $12.95.
Blair Line
) has released a craftsman kit for Walnut
Grove Depot, a structure that features a pagoda-style roof with
flared eaves. Construction details include laser-cut floor, sub-
roof, interior and exterior walls, with tab-and-slot connections.
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Additional items include laser-cut peel-n- stick doors, windows,
window glazing, and roofing material. Peel-n-stick trim comes
in one piece for each side of the structure and the bay win-
dows which simplifies the application of the detailed trim work.
A chimney and signage are included. The N scale kit sells for
$39.95 and when assembled has a footprint of 1.80” x 3.0”. The
model is based on a prototype structure that served the Frisco
(St. Louis-San Francisco Railway) in Walnut Grove, Missouri.
Eastern Seaboard Models
has scheduled an April/
May release date for its Magor/PC&F 40’ boxcars decorated
in the distinctive BAR State of Maine paint scheme. Both 1950
and 1969 (above) versions will be offered. The ready-to-run N
scale model will also be available decorated for Penn Central,
Canadian Pacific (with heater, below), and for OKEX (no run-
ning boards or heater). Other injection molded plastic models
currently under development include a class G36 gondola, a
C&O class F-9 well car, and a class X65 boxcar that will initially
be decorated for New York Central and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie.
ESM's Made in America series of cast resin Keyser Valley kits
include a Lackawanna caboose in the original body version,
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