Blomberg type-M trucks and parts such as standard range
dynamic and non-dynamic brake hatches and 3,600 and 2,600
gallon fuel tanks. Handrails are supplied but not installed.
Between 1975
and 1980
National Steel
Car built more
than a thou-
sand 50’ 6”
100-ton plug-door boxcars. Variations within the production run
included both 5111 and 5277 cu.ft. capacities, ends with either
nine or ten corrugations, and 9’ and 10’ plug doors. Most of the
cars went to Canadian railroads for paper service. Two hundred
were equipped with 70-ton trucks and went into food service for
the Grand Trunk Western.
Atlas plans
to release
an HO scale
Masterline
version of the
NSC cars in the
first quarter
of next year.
Road names
will be CP Rail, Quebec Central, Ontario Northland (as above
with three yellow chevrons), Grand Trunk Western, and YARR-
Youngstown & Austintown Railroad (below). Four numbers will
be available for each scheme at an MSRP of $39.95. An undeco-
rated model will have a list price of $34.95. For reliable opera-
tion a minimum radius of 22” is suggested.
Also due in the first quarter of 2015 is another run of Atlas
Trainmaster series AAR 70-ton triple-bay open hopper cars. In
addition to the Chesapeake & Ohio (woodchip service) shown
News column - 7
here, road names
will be Burlington
(BN repaint),
Cambria &
Indiana, Reading
& Northern (anthracite logo), Union Pacific, Grand Trunk
Western, and Clinchfield (below).
This Atlas HO
scale ready-to-
run model will
have an MSRP
of $23.95. An
undecorated
version will list
at $18.95.
Blackstone
Models
has reis-
sued a lim-
ited number
of Denver & Rio Grande locomotive No. 345 in the distinctive
bumblebee scheme. The HOn3 ready-to-run model replicates
the class C-19 prototype as she appeared in the classic 1951
Western movie
“Denver & Rio Grande.”
Additional features include a road pilot, fluted domes, box
headlight, flared-side tender, wood-panel cab sides, a pair of
single-stage compressors, and a diamond stack. The ready-to-
run model comes with a custom dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami
digital sound decoder. It is available now at an MSRP of $499.95.
MRH-Oct 2014
