year. Road names will include Canadian Pacific; CP Rail; Canadian
National; CN (12” letters); CN (wet noodle); Pacific Great Eastern;
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo; British Columbia Railway; and
Algoma Central. An undecorated model will also be available.
Features of the HO scale cars include finely detailed Z bracing,
individual wire grab irons, positionable drop-ends, and ratchet-
style hand brakes. All surfaces – exterior, interior and underbody
– are all fully detailed. The floor is diecast metal for weight. The
prototype was built starting in 1943 and continuing through the
1950s. Barber 70-ton trucks appropriate to the prototype being
modeled will have either solid-bearing, roller-bearing, or solid
bearing side frames with roller-bearing inserts. The ready-to-run
models will have Rapido’s Macdonald-Cartier magnetic metal
knuckle couplers.
Red Caboose
has scheduled another production run of its 42’
steel flat car in February 2014. The prototype, built in 1928
by General American Car Co., was similar to a USRA design
with fish-belly sides. Road names on the HO scale version will
be Chesapeake & Ohio, Great Northern, Baltimore & Ohio,
Canadian Pacific, Pere Marquette, and Central of Georgia. The
ready-to-run model will have an MSRP of $28.95. InterMountain
Railway is responsible for marketing Red Caboose products. For
additional information visit
After a hiatus of nearly two years, Ted Culotta has announced
plans to revive
Speedwitch
, a small
specialty firm that at one time offered books, HO scale cast-resin
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freight car kits, and decals. Culotta
became widely-known through
an extended series of articles
titled “Essential Freight Cars” that
appeared over several years in
Railroad Model Craftsman maga-
zine. The first new items to be
offered by Speedwitch will be two
publications; “Prototype Railroad
Modeling: Volume Three,” and
“Freight Cars in Context: Volume
One.” Culotta is financing the
relaunch through “crowd sourc-
ing,” a fundraising concept explained in detail at
The TrainMaster, LLC,
) is
selling an HO scale limited
production Freight House
kit named F. Wyneken
Drayage. The craftsman-
style kit consists of four
buildings that can be placed
in a variety of positions
along a single-track spur.
The limited production
kit includes material for
assembling the main build-
ing, loading dock, an outbuilding, and a second dock. Laser-cut
walls, scale stripwood, signage, and assembly templates and
instructions are included along with several construction pho-
tos. Ninety-one detail items from various manufacturers are
also in the kit which is priced at $149.99. A gallery of photos of
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