Data-only kits are available for USRA twin-bay rib-side hopper
cars in both black and oxide red. The kits have a list price of
$15.98 each.
Completing
Accurail's list of
new HO scale car
kits this month is a
40’ AAR steel box-
car built in 1959
and decorated for
Frisco – St. Louis &
San Francisco. It has an MSRP of $16.98 and like all Accurail
kits includes appropriate trucks and Accumate couplers.
Athearn, Division of Horizon Hobby
) has
released additional information on the Genesis series SD70M/
SD701/SD751 locomotives it unveiled at the recent show in
Amherst, MA.
In addition to the obvious flared radiators, Athearn’s version of
the Union Pacific SD70M features a North American safety cab,
round operating ditch lights, two offset turbocharger doors, dual
intake radiator grilles, and an EMD-style low snowplow.
The Norfolk
Southern version
of the SD70M has
the same flared
intake radiator
panels as the UP
