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produce an HO scale version of the Canadian-built SD40-
2. Few details were available but the reaction of Canadian
modelers at Supertrain was universally positive.
Bowser has scheduled a spring release date for its Baldwin
DS-4-4-10 switcher. The prototype saw service on innumer-
able railroads as nearly 500 of the locomotives were built
between 1946 and 1951. Bowser’s HO scale Executive series
model will be available decorated for Canadian Pacific
(maroon and gray), CP Rail (Pacman scheme), Western
Maryland (fireball scheme), Santa Fe (black body, zebra
stripes), SOO (red and white), Erie Lackawanna,
Pennsylvania, Norfolk Southern, and Chicago Great Western.
The ready-to-run DS-4-4-10 models will be available for
standard DC operation (equipped with an NMRA DCC-ready
plug) at an MSRP of $169.95. Models with sound and a DCC
decoder will have an MSRP of $279.95.
A second release of Bowser’s ALCo Century C-636 road
switcher is scheduled for this summer. Road names will be
Morris-Knudsen Leasing, Conrail, Cartier (Quebec Cartier
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