schemes include Central New Jersey; Grand Trunk Western
(wet noodle logo); Long Island Railroad; Monon (Chicago,
Indianapolis & Louisville Railway); and the Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac.
An undecorated model will also be offered. The cars will have
an MSRP of $84.95. The deadline for dealer orders is June 28,
with delivery scheduled for this fall.
Roundhouse, Division of Athearn
(
) has released
HO scale 36’ boxcars and stock cars with new road names.
The ready-to-run models feature a truss-rod underframe, arch
bar trucks with 33” machined metal wheelsets, and
McHenry® knuckle couplers. The cars are topped with an
early Hutchins-type roof that had waterproof sheeting sand-
wiched between two layers of tongue-and-groove wood.
Road names for
the boxcar include
Minneapolis, Saint
Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
(aka SOO Line); IPC-
Indianapolis, Peru &
Chicago (decorated
with Cutler & Savidge
Lumber Co. advertising); D&RGW; and Colorado Midland.
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MRH-May 2013
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