refrigerator car with wood sides and ends and a steel fishbelly
underframe.
Additional new
releases from
Accurail include
a 40' wood stock
car decorated for
NC&StL. The same
car is also avail-
able for Canadian
Pacific. A 50' Union Pacific insulated plug-door steel boxcar,
a Boston & Maine 50' sliding-door steel boxcar with welded
sides, an MKT triple-bay open-top hopper car with The Kay Line
slogan displayed on the offset sides, and a 40' single-sheathed
wood boxcar decorated for Central New Jersey are also avail-
able. All items mentioned are HO scale kits and include appro-
priate trucks and Accumate couplers. Visit the above website
for additional details including pricing.
Athearn
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has scheduled another
release of its HO scale
version of General
Electric’s Evolution
(GEVO) series ES44AC
locomotive next March.
Road names will be
BNSF, Canadian Pacific, and Union Pacific. Athearn’s HO scale
model replicates the early (2005-06) versions of the locomotive
designed to meet strict diesel emission standards issued by Tier
II EPA regulations.
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Athearn’s model repli-
cates specific details of
the early versions,
including the nose door
on the left side, two
closely spaced dynamic
brake vents, X-panel on
the electrical hood, flush-mounted top radiator grilles, and
unique radiator compartment doors. MSRP for the Genesis-
series model will be $199.98 without sound and $299.98 with
Tsunami sound and DCC decoder.
The March production schedule also includes UTC 33,900 gallon
LPG tank cars decorated for UTLX (white), UTLX (black with 10th
anniversary logo, above), UTLX (blue), Procor Limited (white),
and Exxon-Mobile Corporation (black). The photo-etched walk-
ways and end platforms, manway outlet, ladders, brake rigging,
and tank saddles are all separately applied details. The models
come with 100-ton roller bearing trucks with rotating caps. The
MSRP of the Genesis series models is $47.98.
Athearn’s March 2014
schedule has several
ready-to-roll models,
including 40' quad-
hoppers with offset
sides and a removable coal load. Road names will be Western
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