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that will be discontinued when this production run is sold out.
Road names include Union Pacific, Santa Fe (blue and yellow),
Conrail, and New York Central.
The ready-to-run models are available for standard DC opera-
tion at an MSRP of $189.98, and with factory installed sound
and a DCC decoder at an MSRP of $289.98.
Also new are 50’ Pennsylvania Railroad class R50b express
refrigerator cars that replicate the more than 500 all-steel
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prototypes PRR owned and operated from the 1920s until the
late 1960s. Walthers has produced the ready-to-run model in
four decorating schemes including the postwar version with
dark yellow lettering (upper photo), the 1939 scheme of Tuscan
red body with dark green trucks and underframe, 1945 sum-
mer scheme with Dulux gold lettering, and the Keystone
scheme with twin heralds and PRR reporting marks (lower
photo). All versions have a black roof. Additional features of the
HO scale Proto2000™ model include separate grab irons and
36” turned metal wheelsets in PRR 2D-P5 passenger-style
trucks. The cars have an MSRP of $44.98 each.
SceneMaster™ 32’ and 40’ trailers are now available in two-
packs at an MSRP of $19.98. Carrier names on the 32’ trailer
include Penn Yan Express, Lombard Bros, Connecticut Fast
Freight, and J A Garvey.
The 40’ units are available decorated for Branch Motor Express,
Spector Motor Service, Delta Motor Lines, Thurston, Western
Express, and EMD Inc.
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