an outside braced caboose in new decorating schemes next
March. Road names on the 30' car will be Fort Worth & Denver
(with Burlington Route herald), Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Rock
Island, and Western Pacific (model shown above is from a pre-
vious run). The HO scale ready-to-run model will have an MSRP
of $25.98.
Virginia
Foundry &
Model Works
produces lim-
ited runs of
HO scale resin
cast kits for
old-time freight equipment like the SAM ventilated boxcar
shown above. The company does not carry any stock on hand
and makes only enough kits in each production run to fulfill
advance orders. Anyone interested in learning about future
kits can send a note to John Canfield at
requesting that they be placed on the mailing list at Virginia
Foundry & Model Works.
Walthers
) is making a second run of its Great
Northern Empire Builder train set with delivery expected in
February 2014. The Proto series F7 locomotives and collection
of passenger cars depict the prototype equipment of the
News column - 13
MRH-Sep 2013
