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
)
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.
News column - 4
MRH-Feb 2013
