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high x 7.5" wide. The craftsman-style kit features laser-cut
walls, Tichy doors and windows, and BEST shingles. Illustrated
instructions are provided along with assembly templates.
Kit #ST017 is priced at $45.00 plus shipping and handling.
Vehicles and figures in the illustration are not included.
North West Short Line/Oso Railworks
has released repowering kits for rejuvenating older HO scale
steam models. Kits are now available for a TYCO/Mantua
0-6-0T and a Varney Dockside 0-4-0T. Principal components
in each of the kits include a DCC-friendly motor, a polished-
steel worm gear, a machined Delrin axle gear, a Quick-Mount
fixture, and detailed instructions. The 0-6-0T kit also has a
small flywheel. The repower kits sell for $42.95 each. Details,
including installation instructions are available in section 6 of
the NWSL catalog which can be viewed at the above web site.
Red Caboose
is scheduled
to release HO
scale ready-to-
run versions of
its Evans 100-
ton coil cars this fall. Road names will include Elgin, Joliet, &
Eastern; Norfolk Southern; Detroit, Toledo & Ironton; Grand
Trunk Western; Chicago & North Western; and CSX Spring
Hill Express as shown here. Each road name will be avail-
able in six numbers at an MSRP of $42.95. InterMountain
Railway is responsible for marketing Red Caboose products.
For additional information visit
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In June,
Roundhouse Division of Athearn
)
is scheduled to release 42' Pfaudler express milk reefers
decorated for Borden’s, Hood’s, and Brookside (above). The
model represents cars from the 1920s and '30s that trans-
ported creamery products in two sanitized glass-lined tanks
inside the insulated wood car body. The prototype often
traveled at the head end of passenger trains and the HO
scale ready-to-run model comes with appropriate hi-speed
trucks. The Roundhouse model has an MSRP of $26.98.
Tangent Scale Models
) has
released another production run of its highly-rated PS-2CD
4000 covered hopper cars. Pullman-Standard produced the
prototype round-hatch covered hoppers from 1962 to 1964.
Until the early 2000s, the cars were in service throughout
North America wearing both Class 1 and lease paint schemes.
Tangent’s current
release includes six
new paint schemes
and reruns of four
sold-out schemes.
New roads include
Burlington Northern
(six road numbers
in cascade green with a 6-72 paint date), Chicago & North
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