Roundhouse
Division of Athearn
plans to
release a 40 foot wood reefer with steel underframe in
February. In
addition to
the Canadian
National (maple
leaf herald) ver-
sion shown here, three numbers each will be available for
Pacific Fruit Express (Southern Pacific herald), PFE (Western
Pacific herald), National Refrigerator Company (A&P scheme),
and NRC (Yakima Valley Apples scheme). The HO scale ready-
to-run model will have an MSRP of $19.98.
Tangent Scale Models
) showed
samples of its new HO Scale General American Dry-Flo covered
hopper at the National Train Show. The model is based on a
3500 cu. ft. car General American Transportation Corporation
produced beginning in 1959. This is the first time this proto-
type has been produced in HO scale.
Special features include nicely detailed
gravity-pneumatic outlet gates, Kadee
couplers and, depending on the road
name, either ASF 70-ton Ride Control plain
bearing trucks or Barber S-2-A 70- ton
roller bearing trucks. Road names include
Burlington Northern (Cascade green),
Conrail, Illinois Central, Northern Pacific,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Pacific
(Albina silver), GACX-DOW Freeport TX,
and GACX-Diamond Sugar – Montreal. An
