include Wisconsin Southern, Pan Am Railway, Chicago North
Western, and Union Pacific as shown above.
Mid-production
SD40-2s have
deck-mounted
ditch lights, and
road-specific
horn and air
conditioner
placement. In
addition to the Norfolk Southern Maersk unit shown above,
road names available now for mid-production locomotives are
Burlington Northern (standard scheme), Illinois Central, and
ATSF. Additional information including pricing is available at the
above website.
Micro-Trains Line
has released sev-
eral new N scale
ready-to-run mod-
els this month including an 83’ Pullman sleeper decorated for
New York Central.
New freight cars
include a 50’
Baltimore & Ohio
double-door boxcar
featuring a small
dome herald and
large, billboard
style B&O.
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This Chicago North
Western 100-ton
triple-bay hopper
car includes a coal
load. The prototype
was built in 1966
and was most recently repainted in 2005.
Southern Pacific’s
40’ boxcar with alu-
minum sides and
roof is available
from Micro-Trains
in two numbers.
M-T’s 39’ tank car
is decorated for
Canadian Industrial
Alcohol Co. Ltd.
The single-dome
tanker is also avail-
able decorated for
the U.S. Navy. Additional N scale freight cars released by Micro-
Trains include a 36’ wood sheathed reefer with steel under-
frame decorated for URTC Heileman Brewing. The prototype
was built by ACF in 1934. Also a 40’ Swift refrigerator car and
a 61’ Union Pacific AAR class FB bulkhead flat car with a pipe
load. For additional information including pricing visit the pre-
vious website.
Pacific Western Rail Systems
has contracted with
Rapido Trains to create N scale Canadian Pacific Railway 10-5
sleepers. Like the prototype, the N scale models will be based
on ex-New York Central Panorama cars. The ready-to-run
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