Micro-Trains is
selling Union
Pacific 40’ box
cars with double
doors equipped
with Allied Full-
Cushion trucks.
The paint
scheme and
trucks indicates the cars were used in express service.
This N scale
Canadian
National 50’
boxcar with plug
doors and no
running board is
based on a prototype built by National Steel in 1964.
Micro-Trains
based this 34’
wood-sheathed
caboose on a
car built for
the New York
Central in 1921.
The prototype was in service until the caboose era ended in
the mid-1980s.
Additional N scale cars released by Micro-Trains include a
10,153 gallon 39’ single-dome tank car decorated for Shell; a
four-pack of unique Chessie Safety Cabooses painted white,
dark blue, orange, and light green with each scheme featur-
ing the Chessie Cat logo and a “Green Cross for Safety” slogan;
a 50’ Baltimore & Ohio 14-panel, steel gondola with fishbelly
sides and fixed ends; a 50’ olive drab flat car loaded with a 40’
container decorated with WWII-era B-29 Superfortress nose
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art; and a 57’ Chicago & North Western flat car converted to
TOFC service. Additional information including pricing is avail-
able at the above website.
Roundhouse Division of Athearn
) will release
an N scale three-window wood caboose in March, 2015. Road
names will be Chicago & North Western, Frisco, Northern
Pacific, and Union Pacific. In addition, cabooses decorated
for New York Central (above) and Southern Pacific will be
equipped with metal truss rods. The ready-to-run model will
have an MSRP of $25.98 each.
Walthers (
w
is
scheduled to
release an N
scale GP38-2
diesel locomotive in December. Features of the ready-to-run
model include a die cast split frame, directional LED headlights,
and Blomberg M trucks. Road names will be Conrail, BNSF,
Canadian National, CSX, SOO Line, and Union Pacific. The DCC-
ready locomotive will have an MSRP of $99.98.
MRH-Sep 2014
