production. Shipments from overseas are now arriving regu-
larly every month.
An HO scale 4-door
version of the 1993
Ford Explorer® will be
released by Atlas in
the first quarter of
2014. The popular SUV
will be available for Amtrak, CN, CP, Conrail, KCS, NJ Transit,
and NS. Painted but unlettered models will be available in
orange, white, and yellow. The MSRP will be $19.95 each.
Atlas reports that
models from the next
production run of its
53' Evans double plug
door boxcar will arrive
during the second
quarter of 2014. Road names on the AtlasMaster series
model will be British Columbia Railway, Plywood
Marketing, Chicago & North Western, Coin Millwork,
Multnomah Plywood, Vermont Railway, Weyerhaeuser, and
USLX-PMA. The MSRP will be $26.95. An undecorated ver-
sion will list at $21.95.
Also due in the sec-
ond quarter of 2014 is
a run of Atlas Master
series 1932 ARA box-
cars. Road names will
be Central of Georgia, Erie (1942 scheme), Maine Central
(1949 scheme), Norfolk Southern (“Tarwheel” slogan), NC
& StL, and Seaboard Air Line (Silver Meteor). The MSRP will
be $33.95, with an undecorated model available at $26.95.
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