unpainted kit is
available as well
as an assembled
but undecorated
model.
Tangent has
released the sec-
ond production
run of its highly-
regarded General
American triple-
compartment
6,000 gallon tank car. Road names in this run include schemes
for prototypes operating between 1929 and the 1980s. They are
STCX - Standard Tank Car Company (black, 1930 to early ‘40s),
MPCX - Magnolia Petroleum Company (1935, black and silver),
GATX - General American Transportation (black, new road num-
bers, 1941+), GATX - General American Transportation (black,
1958+), GATX - General American Transportation (black, 1968-
1974), HHCX - Champlin Refining Company (white, Enid, OK,
1952+), GATX - Celanese Chemicals (green, with red and white
graphics, 1952+), D&H – Delaware & Hudson Company Service
(ex-GATX black scheme, 1972), and undecorated as shown here.
Also avail-
able now from
Tangent is
another run of
Pullman-Standard
PS-2CD 4750
covered hoppers, the largest production covered hopper design
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in history. The HO scale models and decorating schemes repre-
sent prototypes in service from the 1970s to the present. The
four new road names are PTLX – Landmark Uniopolis OH (red,
white, and black), PTLX – Landmark Washington C.H. OH (red,
white, and black), PTLX - Cargill Salt (green), and PTLX - Michigan
Elevator Exchange (yellow with black underframe and ends). Visit
Tangent’s website for complete description, prototype photos, ref-
erence material and pricing information. Note that Tangent allows
mixing for multiple car discounts on quantity purchases.
During the Cleveland National Train Show,
Walthers
showed pre-production samples of their forthcoming
Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Limited train set. Led by appropriately
decorated E9A and E8Bm diesel units, the 10-car consist includes
several new cars and the only dome cars to operate in the east.
Delivery of the individual cars, which are all 85 feet long, will be
one per month beginning with a Budd-built 24-8 Slumbercoach
sleeper in November followed by a Pullman-Standard 10-6
sleeper with fluted sides in December. The new year will begin
with the release of a Budd 16-4 sleeper, followed by a P-S
kitchen/dormitory car in February, a P-S 56-seat dining car in
March, and a P-S 56- seat coach in April. May will see the release
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