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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
