A Soo Line 40’ steel boxcar with
combination plug and sliding
side doors is also new.
Accurail has released a kit for a
Gulf Mobile & Ohio 50-ton twin-
bay hopper car with offset
sides, and a kit for a 50’
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie boxcar
with riveted steel sides.
Additional new HO kits from
Accurail include a 40’ New
Haven single-sheathed boxcar
with wood sides and ends, and
a Milwaukee Road 40’ insulated
steel boxcar with a plug door.
Athearn
) plans to release its Genesis series
GP40-2 with new road names in August. They include Conrail
(Phase IIa, 81” nose), Iowa Chicago & Easter (88” nose), Norfolk
Southern (both Phase I and IIa), and DRGW (both Phase I with
81” nose and Phase III with 88” nose). Standard DC non-sound
versions of the HO scale Genesis series model, priced at $169.98
each, will be DCC-ready using Quick Plug™ technology.
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Sound-equipped models have Soundtraxx® Tsunami® DCC
decoders and are priced at $269.98 each.
Athearn continues to release products decorated in fictitious
schemes that never appeared on the prototype. New “what if”
schemes coming this August include a CF7 locomotive decorated
for Amtrak, Santa Fe (blue & yellow warbonnet), BNSF (Heritage
I scheme), and W ATCO (repaint over ATSF blue and yellow). The
ready-to-roll series model will have an MSRP of $114.98 each.
Also scheduled for
an August release
is a 40’ triple-bay
rib-side hopper
car. In addition to
the UP version shown, the open-top car will be available for
Canadian National, Chesapeake & Ohio, SLSF-Frisco, and
Reading. The HO scale ready-to-roll model will be priced at
$27.98 each or in four-packs at $99.98.
In addition to the
CAXX-Cemento
Cruz Azul scheme
shown here,
Athearn will offer
this 50’ FMC 5347
boxcar in five additional road names: Columbus & Greenville,
East Camden & Highland, East Erie Commercial Railroad, North
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