News column - 9
Jason Shron, achieving the newly-developed Superior Stainless
finish involves a “secret” multi-step process of spraying various
specially formulated finishes in a tightly controlled tempera-
ture environment.
The initial Budd cars will be a Park series round-end dome
observation car and a 60-seat coach. In addition to the new
stainless finish, the cars feature complete underbody detail
including all air, steam, and electrical conduits. The interior of
the cars have such details as antimacasars on the seat backs,
faucets in the bathroom, and simulated etched-glass divider
panels between the smoking and nonsmoking sections.
Additional features include factory installed grab irons, win-
dow blinds at various heights, operating diaphragms with
etched-metal end gates, and track-powered constant interior
lighting. The coach will be available for Amtrak, Atlantic Coast
Line, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Metro North communter rail-
road, New York Central, Penn Central, Pennsylvania Railroad
(Congressional), Pennsylvania Railroad (Fleet of Modernism),
Rock Island, Santa Fe, Seaboard Air Line, Seaboard Coast Line,
and Southern Railway. The Park observation will be decorated
for Canadian Pacific (maroon stripe), CP Rail (action red stripe),
VIA Rail Canada, and VIA Rail Canada (HEP Canada scheme).
Both cars will also be available unlettered in the Superior
Stainless finish. Delivery is planned for spring or early sum-
mer 2014. Visit the above website for pricing and reservation
information.
Soundtraxx
has introduced a 16-bit digi-
tal sound decoder specifically designed as a drop-in replace-
ment for recent decoder-equipped HO scale diesels from
InterMountain. Visit the above website for features and specifi-
cations on this upgrade system.
Tangent Scale
Models
used the
occasion of the
Naperville RPM
meet to introduce
a new HO scale model of a 6000-gallon triple-dome tank car
with a type-30 riveted underframe. General American built the
prototype from 1928 to 1942 with many of the distinctive three-
compartment cars remaining in service into the late 1970s.
Tangent will initially offer the car in three numbers each for
four paint schemes. Black cars will be available with variations
in brake hardware and lettering schemes following prototypes
painted or re-painted in 1968 and 1958 (both GATX), and 1930
(STCX). The fourth decorated model in this release is a GATX
Celanese car in green with red and green graphics.
A kit* is also available along with an assembled ready-to-run
model painted in gray primer but without any lettering. All
versions come with Kadee couplers and Tangent’s 50-ton ASF
MRH-Nov 2013
