print and digital formats. Visit the above website for pricing
and ordering information.
Morning Sun Books
has released
Penn Central Power, Volume 3
,
by Robert J. Yanosey. Both ros-
ter and action photos of SD35s,
SD40s, SD45s and GP9s are among
the PC locomotives detailed in
this study. Also new this month
is
Steel Mills Railroads, Volume 6:
Southern Style,
by Thomas Lawson
Jr., and Stephen M. Timko. Visit
the above website for pricing and ordering information.
Rivers, Rapids, and Rushing Water
is the latest publication from
TimMulina’s Mastering Model Railroading series of how-to
books. For full details including pricing and ordering information
visit
Woodland Scenics
is scheduled to release several new
terrain system products early this year.
One of
the most
interesting
is a self-
supporting
terrain
building
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material (previous) that can be shaped and reshaped to form
any type of terrain. Named Shaper Sheet™, the new material
requires no supporting understructure. Shaper Sheet bonds with
plaster to lock-in the shape and create a hardshell surface (above
right). It will be available in 6’ rolls 9” and 18” wide.
Another new product coming fromWoodland Scenics is Ready
Rocks™. These are precast, prepainted, plaster rock castings.
The assortment includes seven types of rocks. One group of
rocks, called Shelf Rock™, are cast in such a way that they can fit
together in one contiguous wall or be set individually.
Also coming soon are Road Striping Pens and a flexible mark-
ing guide called Flexi Edge™. Used together, a hobbyist can
create realistic road markings in any scale. The pens will be
available in yellow and white. A line remover is also avail-
able. Visit the above website for additional information.
O SCALE PRODUCT NEWS
Atlas O
) will release four 60’ passenger cars dur-
ing the third quarter of 2014. Based on C&NW prototypes, the
group includes a coach and a combine with four-wheel trucks,
and an RPO and a baggage car with six-wheel trucks. In addi-
tion to the Milwaukee Road scheme shown on the RPO car, road
names will be CNJ/NJDOT, Burlington, Chesapeake & Ohio, and
New York Central. Models ready for three-rail operation will have
an MSRP of $99.95 each. Two-rail versions will list at $104.95.
MRH-Jan 2014
