Imperial Hobby
Productions
has made
another produc-
tion run of a one-
piece resin body
casting for a Kansas City PCC Trolley. In addition to Kansas City,
the shell is correct for PCC operations in Toronto, Philadelphia,
and Tampico, Mexico, all of which acquired the cars after
Kansas City Public Service ceased operations. The KCPS body
shell is available direct from IHP at $34.95. It is designed to fit
Bowser’s #125141 PCC mechanism.
InterMountain
Railway
has released
another run of
its ACF type 27 riveted 8,000 gallon tank cars. The HO scale
ready-to-run models are available with black tanks decorated
for Union Tank Car, Chickasaw Refining, Conoco, Koppers, and
Mobilgas. Diamond Chemicals, Baker’s Chocolate, and Domino
Sugar all have white tanks. Shell, Texaco, and Gibson Wine have
silver tanks. Additional road names include Celanese Chemicals
(green).Champion Oils/Sterling Fuel (jade), Cook Paints (red),
and Union Starch & Refining (red).
InterMountain has scheduled a September release date for the
next production run of 50’ PS-1 boxcars with single doors. Road
names for the HO scale ready-to-run model will include Bangor
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& Aroostook
(State of Maine
scheme),
Santa Fe (class
Bx74/75 with
billboard letter-
ing), Delaware
& Hudson (blue
and white with I
Love NY Slogan),
Green Bay & Western, Maine Central, and Western Maryland.
Previously announced cars decorated for Seaboard Coast Line
(Family Systems) and Missouri Pacific have been cancelled due
to lack of reservations.
A new production
run of HO scale
cylindrical cov-
ered hoppers
with round
hatches and quad hoppers are expected to be released in
September or October. Road names on the ready-to-run mod-
els will be Cominco Fertilizers, Canadian National (wet noodle
scheme), CN (rainbow scheme), CSX (tan scheme), Anahuac del
Golfo, CNIS/North American, and CPLX (CP Rail paintouts).
MRH-Aug 2014
