inch interior
boxcar include
tab side sills,
4-4 Improved
Dreadnaught
ends, 6 foot
Youngstown
doors, and
a Murphy panel roof. Road names on the initial run will be
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Santa Fe; Canadian National;
Canadian Pacific; Northern Pacific, New York Central, and undec-
orated. The ready-to-run model will have an MSRP of $24.98.
Walthers is sell-
ing an HO scale
Trainline series
flat car decorated
for Canadian
Pacific, D&RGW, TTX, and C&O Chessie System. This is an entry-
level flat car of generic design with molded-on details, metal
wheel sets, and knuckle couplers. The ready-to-run model has an
MSRP of $17.98.
Walthers has scheduled a
November release date for
an HO scale kit version of
the Pella depot. The medium
sized brick structure is based
on a Rock Island prototype
now serving as a museum
in Pella, IA. The assembled
depot has a footprint of 12 x 5 by 3½ inches. The model will have
an MSRP of $39.98.
of a P-S baggage-dorm-coffee shop-lounge, followed in June by a
P-S Strata-Dome coach, and a Budd Strata-Dome 5-1-3 sleeper in
July. The consist will be completed in August with the release of
a P-S 5-bedroom-buffet-lounge-observation car.
Matching Proto diesels based on B&O class DP-6 (E9A) and
rebuilt DP7-X (E8Bm) units will have special details such as a
raised B&O Capitol Dome shield, brass Nathan M5 air horn,
single headlight with flush lens and gasket detail, flush number
boards, stainless steel side grilles, fuel tank skirts, and an ATS
shoe on engineer’s side of the front truck. Models will be avail-
able for standard DC operation and with SoundTraxx Tsunami
Sound for DCC or DC operation. Check the above website for
pricing and additional details on Walthers B&O Capitol Limited.
A limited-run 10-car Deluxe Edition of the Capitol Limited will fea-
ture factory-printed car names and numbers, factory-installed LED
interior lighting, and more than 150 Preiser figures. For additional
information on the Deluxe Edition collector set visit
.
Also on display in
the Walthers NTS
booth were sev-
eral pre-produc-
tion samples of new lightweight passenger cars. The full-length
cars are in Walthers Mainline series (mid-level) and will have a
reasonable amount of detail along with truck-mounted couplers
for operation on 18” radius curves. A conversion set will be avail-
able to convert to body-mount couplers.
Also on display was an early test shot of a Walthers Mainline
series 40 foot AAR 1944 boxcar. The finished product is sched-
uled for release late next January. Features of the 10 foot 6
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