resin parts including the
floor, doors, running
board, bolsters, end sills,
some support pieces, and
a one-piece body. Kadee
#5 couplers are included
along with additional
detail parts by Tichy, PSC, Bitter Creek, and Grandt Line. Trucks
are either 30-ton Fox from Shapeway, or Tahoe arch bar trucks
with InterMountain metal wheelsets.
Prototype specific
details provided
in each kit allow
it to be built to
represent cars for
the following road
names: Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf; Rutland Railway; Armour & Company; Big
4; and New York, New Haven & Hartford (with Fox trucks, all
others have arch bar trucks). The kits are priced at $41.00 each
plus postage, however advance payment is not required. For
additional information or to make a reservation send an email
to John Canfield at
Walthers
is
accepting reserva-
tions for Proto
series Union Pacific
E9AM and E9BM
locomotives.
Delivery is scheduled for April 2015. The HO scale ready-to-run
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models will be decorated in UP’s Heritage scheme as applied to
equipment used in excursion service from 1993 to 2000.
WalthersProto pas-
senger equipment
to match the UP
Heritage E9 loco-
motives will be
available beginning this October. The mix includes five ACF 85’
cars: a coach, a dome-coach, a diner, a dome- diner, a dome-
lounge (above), and a Budd-built 10-6 sleeper. All are HO scale
ready-to-run models.
Walthers has just
released a
Mainline® series
ALCo DL109 diesel
locomotive. In addi-
tion to the
Milwaukee Road scheme shown illustrated here, the HO scale
ready-to-run model is available in four different New Haven liver-
ies; McGinnis, Cranberry, Hunter Green with gray stripes, and
Pullman green with simplified striping. Visit the above website for
additional details and pricing.
Walthers is sched-
uled to release a
group of PRR class
N6B wood cabin
cars with centered
cupola in July. A total of six decorating
arrangements will be available including
the one shown here with a black cupola
and a shadow keystone positioned above
MRH-Jun 2014
