Miller Engineering
reports that
plans to produce an elec-
tronically animated sign
for Coors Beer have been
cancelled. The brewer
denied Miller’s request for
a license indicating that
the company is “gradu-
ally cycling out of model train replica items.” On the positive
side, new limited-edition signs currently available fromMiller
include LifeSavers and The Drunken Clam. Click on the above
website for pricing and to view the new signs in action.
The
NJ International
booth at the National Train Show displayed a
wide range of signals including new HO scale
Union Switch & Signal CPL (color positional
lights). The group includes a Bi-Directional
type, a Bracket CPL type, and an 8-light,
4-position signal with six markers (above).
Visit the above website for complete details
including pricing.
The
Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Association
is selling an HO scale NP 57' class R-70-14 mechani-
cal refrigerator car as built by Pacific Car & Foundry in the
News column - 12
1960s. Twelve dif-
ferent road num-
bers are available
for the ready-to-
run models which
were produced for NPRHA by Red Caboose. The cars are
priced at $42.95 each. Visit the above website for additional
information including ordering details.
Peco
showed its
new Power
Feed Rail
Joiners at the
National Train
Show. Each
joiner has a
pre-soldered
8” (approximate) color-coded feed wire. The rail joiners are
available in three sizes: Code 100/124, code 70/83, and code
55/80. The joiners are supplied in packs of four pairs. Pricing
in North America is pending.
Rapido Trains, Inc.
) has introduced a
new HO scale nickel silver flex track. Dubbed “Bendy-Track,”
three-foot sections of code 83 and code 100 track are sched-
uled for release in late September. The rail is secured with
four offset spikes molded into each of the wood-grained
ties. Each section of track comes with four rail joiners. Every
few inches, the ties are half-drilled from below so they can
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