spring-plank trucks with metal wheelsets. Tangent allows mix-
ing for multiple car discounts on quantity purchases in incre-
ments of 6, 12, 36 and 48. Visit the above website for pricing
and ordering information.
*For suitable decals see the Black Cat listing in the decal section.
Tichy
has released several new HO scale
items including milepost markers, both yellow and red street
stop signs, and a large selection of double-hung windows. Tichy
has also upgraded their HO and O scale PDF catalog pages mak-
ing it easier to search for specific items. Visit the above website
for full details.
Walthers’
late December
delivery schedule
includes a Proto®
series International steel bay-window caboose decorated for CP
Rail, Great Northern, Penn Central, and Milwaukee Road. The HO
scale ready-to-run model has an MSRP of $44.98 each.
Also scheduled for
arrival in late
December is a 40'
16,000-gallon
Funnel-Flow tank
car. Road names will
be ADMX-Archer-Daniels-Midland, UTLX–Cargill, JHMX–J. M.
Huber Co., SHLX-Procor, and UTLX-Union Tank Car. The Proto®
series HO scale model will have an MSRP of $39.98.
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Walthers Mainline®
series cars coming in
December include a
50' waffle-side box-
car at a list price of
$21.98. In addition to the CSX car shown here other road names
will be Green Bay & Western, Illinois Central, and Rock Island.
Additional Mainline
cars scheduled
for arrival in late
December will be a
34' 100-ton twin-bay
open- top hopper car decorated for Dolese Bros., Southern
Pacific, WP (with a UP medallion), and the Vulcan Material
car shown above. The list price will be $24.98. Also priced at
$24.98 is a Walthers Mainline® 40' double-sheathed wood
refrigerator car with a steel roof and Dreadnaught ends. Road
names will be Armour, Burlington Express, Rath Packing, and
Soo/URTX.
Yarmouth Model Works
introduced two
new resin-cast car kits
at the Naperville RPM
meet late last month.
They include a cast
resin kit for an HO
scale Northern Pacific 39000 series boxcar. Like the prototype
illustrated here, the model features a unique brake rigging
arrangement that includes three brake levers, of which two are
Photo courtesy of Yarmouth Model Works
MRH-Nov 2013
