Another HO scale
model due from
Walthers in
November is a 50’
insulated boxcar
decorated for Conrail, Erie Lackawanna, Southern Railway, and
Norfolk & Western. The Mainline series model will have an
MSRP of $24.98.
Walthers plans to
release four different
schemes on its HO scale
ACF 10,000-gallon tank
car in late November or
early December. Road
names will include Gulf,
Shell, Union Oil, and Standard Oil (shown here from an earlier
production run). The MSRP will be $24.95 each.
An HO version of
Electro Motive
Division’s hardwork-
ing SW1 diesel switch
engine is set for
release with new
road names in late December. They include Great Northern,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Amtrak, and Rock Island as shown above.
The ready-to-run model comes with an 8-pin plug to accept an
aftermarket DCC decoder. The Walthers Mainline® series model
will have an MSRP of $99.98.
One of the
first items on
Walthers 2014
delivery sched-
ule is an EMD
News column - 14
MRH-Oct 2013
