News column - 9
ExactRail’s paint schemes include the so-called wartime scheme
introduced in late 1940 with a new capitol herald created by
famed industrial designer Otto Kuhler (above), and a mid-1945
scheme with a “Linking 13 Great States” slogan around the capi-
tol herald. Also the postwar scheme with the same herald and
“Baltimore & Ohio” lettering high on the left side of the car as
introduced in 1946 (below).
Railway Express
Agency versions of
the M-53 include
a car decorated in
blue, a color B&O
used on a variety of
its equipment, and
in coach green (below). Both REA cars have gold lettering.
The HO scale
ready-to-run
model comes
with Kadee® #58
couplers, and
50-ton Barber
S-2 solid bearing
trucks with 33" machined wheels. The HO scale ready-to-run
Platinum series model is available direct at $33.95 each.
InterMountain Railway
(
intermountain-railway.com
)
has
scheduled an October/November release for another produc-
tion run of its EMD F7 series diesel locomotive. Road names
include Baltimore & Ohio; Southern Pacific; ATSF; Bessemer
& Lake Erie; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Penn
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