models will be available exclusively from Pacific Western Rail
Systems. Pricing and release dates are expected to be con-
firmed soon.
Trainworx
is taking reservations for an N
scale ready-to-run four-bay hopper cars in the following road
names: Rio Grande (the Action Road slogan), Mo-Pac (eagle),
Mo-Pac (buzz saw), C&EI, TP, CTRN, Clinchfield (white), and
Clinchfield (yellow). Delivery is planned for this fall.
Also due late this year from Trainworx is a run of GS general
service drop-bottom gondola cars. The ready-to-run model will
feature automatic magnetic knuckle couplers and Fox Valley
solid bearing trucks with metal wheelsets. Road names will be
Santa Fe, Northern Pacific, Norfolk & Western, Southern Pacific
(with SPL circle), and Southern Pacific (without SPL circle). Visit
the above website for additional information including pricing.
Woodland Scenics
has added two
assembled N scale structures
to its Built & Ready Landmark
Structure series of buildings.
Shown above is the Davenport
Department Store, a three-story
commercial Victorian structure
with a corner turret topped with
an octagonal roof. The large
street level windows feature
fashion mannequins. Additional features include roof detail,
wrought-iron balconies and fire escape, appropriate signage,
awnings, and light fixtures.
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Also new is Home Sweet Home,
an N scale Victorian home
with a Mansard roof, vintage
weather vane and intricately
styled dormers with flowered
window boxes. Other details
are bracketed eaves, a storm
cellar, woodpile, propane tank,
and a back porch with propped
open screen door. Visit the
above website for additional information and pricing.
NEW DECALS, SIGNS AND FINISHING
PRODUCTS
Hubert Mask of
Mask Island Decals
)
has announced the availability of three new HO scale lettering
sets. Each set has enough material to decorate two cars.
Set 87-256 is for Milwaukee Road flat car as rebuilt in 1981.
Set 87-257 will
letter Rock Island
“Route of the
Rockets” 40’ box-
car as painted in
the road’s Biddle
Yard.
Set 87-258 is for Rock Island’s 40’ Rocket Freight boxcars from
the 1949-era. Visit the above website for pricing and ordering
instructions.
MRH-May 2014
