News column - 9
A non-sound version of the Mikado with an MSRP of $299.00 will
be available decorated for Pere Marquette*, Southern Railway*,
Rock Island, St. Louis-San Francisco, and Western Pacific. The loco-
motives will come with a USRA medium tender except those with
an asterisk* which will have USRA long tenders.
Bachmann
showed a pre-pro-
duction sample of
a 40’ double-
sheathed wood
refrigerator car.
The HO scale model will be available later this year decorated for
Merchants Despatch, URT-Union/Soo Line, Pacific Fruit Express,
Pure Carbonic Company, and ART-American Refrigerator Transit
as shown here with Missouri Pacific and Wabash heralds. The
ready-to-run model will have an MSRP of $34.00.
Another pro-
duction run of
Bachmann’s
50-ton two-truck
class B Climax has
been scheduled
for late this year.
The popular geared steam locomotive will have an LED head-
light, all-wheel electrical pickup, and a DCC decoder for speed,
direction, and lighting. Road names will be Moore-Keppel &
Company, W.M. Ritter, Climax demo, and black but unlettered.
The MSRP will be $399.00. A 16-bit Plug-and Play SoundTraxx
Tsunami sound module will be available at an MSRP of $125.00.
Bachmann will rerun its classic American 4-4-0 steam locomo-
tive for delivery late in 2014. Road names will include Atchison,
MRH-Aug 2014
