Road names
will be Santa
Fe, Chesapeake
& Ohio, Penn
Central,
Reading, Lehigh Valley, and Delaware & Hudson.
Three numbers
each will be
available on a
new run of
ACF 5250 cu.ft.
quad-bay
Center Flow covered hoppers. Introduced by ACF in the 1960s,
the rounded body of the Center Flow design provided structural
strength as well as an inducement to gravity unloading.
Road names in
Athearn’s May
release will be
Archer Daniels
Midland,
American
Hoechst, El Rexene, Firestone, GATX, and Columbian Plastics.
Completing Athearn’s May release schedule will be a group of
Ford F-100 panel trucks decorated as emergency vehicles. They
include Police (black and white), Police (all black), Fire Rescue
(red), Ambulance (white), and Fire Chief (red with black fenders).
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All have rubber tires and a red non- functioning warning light on
the roof. A UPS truck is also in the mix. The F-100 trucks have an
MSRP of $24.98.
Atlas Model
Railroad
Company
)
will release its
HO scale
GP40-2 diesel locomotive during the first quarter of 2015 in sev-
eral new decorating schemes. The models will be available for
standard DC operation (Silver series at $159.95 MSRP) and with
LokSound DCC decoder (Gold series at $269.95 MSRP). The
LokSound Select Dual-Mode decoder allows the locomotive to
be operated on DC as well as on DCC layouts. Road names
include Florida East Coast in two versions including a pink ribbon
Breast Cancer Awareness scheme.
Additional
GP40-2 paint
schemes will
be Chessie
System-C&O,
Chessie
System-B&O, Chessie System-WM, Conrail, Ferromex, and
Kansas City Southern. Previously released schemes available in
this run with new road numbers include Southern Pacific and
Western Pacific.
Atlas is includ-
ing an undeco-
rated GP40-2
in this run. It
will come with
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