News column - 9
InterMountain late this year. In addition to the San Francisco
Chief car shown above, decorating schemes will be available
for Scout, Grand Canyon, El Capitan, Chief, Texas Chief, and
Super Chief. The ready-to- run models will have an MSRP of
$32.95. A previously announced car decorated for Alton has
been cancelled.
Kadee
is
scheduled to release
an HO scale ready-to-
run model of a 50’
Milwaukee Road PS-1
boxcar with a 9’ Youngstown steel door in September. It will
have an MSRP of $37.95.
Also coming in
September is a 50-ton
AAR standard open
hopper car deco-
rated for Santa Fe.
The ready-to-run HO scale model represents a SF class GA72
car built in 1948. The model has an MSRP of $43.95 and comes
with a removable coal load.
KatoUSA
) has scheduled another production run
of its HO scale EMD SD80MAC locomotives for release in
October. The SD80MACs have a maximum speed of 75 mph
and can generate up to 5,000 horsepower. Kato’s 1:87 version
replicates a prototype introduced by EMD in late 1995. Road
names on the ready-to-run models will be available in two
numbers each for Norfolk Southern, Conrail, and CSX in the
dark future scheme. Several consumer-applied detail parts are
MRH-Jul 2014
