(see above). Purchasing the deluxe edition requires advance
reservations at a participating hobby shop.
In other product news, Walthers has scheduled the release of
a Milwaukee Road F3 diesel for January 2014. The HO scale
ready-to-run models will be decorated in the gray and orange
lightning bolt scheme as applied to the prototype from 1949
through the mid-1950s. Details specific to Milwaukee Roads
F3 phase 4 locomotives include dual slit dynamic brake wire
screens, dual Leslie A-200 air horns, headlight mounted on
the nose door, passenger-style pilot, skirted fuel tanks, knob-
style sand hatch covers, horizontal stainless steel side grilles,
eyebrow grab irons, and ladder standoffs on the nose. Visit
walthers.com for pricing information.
New rolling
stock coming
from Walthers
next month
includes a
Mainline™
series 40’ meat
refrigerator car decorated for Armour-ARLX, Black Hills
Packing-URTX, ART-Kansas City Packing Company (above), and
Milwaukee Road. The ready-to-run model will have an MSRP
of $24.98.
Also scheduled
for release
in August is
a Mainline™
series of 50’
twin-bay
Airslide cov-
ered hopper cars. Decorating schemes include Burlington
News column - 13
MRH-Jul 2013
