and Pickering Lumber. Undecorated and painted but unlettered
models will also be available. The MSRP will be $199.95.
Beginning in the late
1960s, American Car
& Foundry began
building 60’ boxcars
specifically to provide more efficient service between automo-
bile assembly plants and auto parts suppliers. Both single and
double door versions of the auto parts cars were built with
many continuing in service today. Atlas plans to deliver N scale
ready-to-run versions of the car in the second quarter of 2015.
Cars with single doors will be decorated for Conrail, Cotton
Belt, Norfolk & Western, and Western Maryland. Double-door
versions of the auto parts car will be available for Detroit,
Toledo & Ironton; Canadian National; Canadian Pacific (CPAA);
and Chesapeake & Ohio. The MSRP will be $19.95. An undeco-
rated version will list at $14.95.
Also due from Atlas
in the second quar-
ter of next year is a
Louisville & Nashville
70-ton triple-bay
open hopper car. The N scale ready-to-run model is based on a
prototype Pullman-Standard built beginning in the mid-1950s.
Atlas will offer the
same model deco-
rated for Alaska
Railroad, Louisville &
Nashville, and
Seaboard Systems. It will represent a nearly identical car
Pullman-Standard introduced in the mid- 60s. P-S used the
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same length underframe but applied slightly taller sides result-
ing in a prototype rated at 80 tons with a capacity of 2960
cu.ft.
A rerun of Atlas’s N
scale version of the
EMD six-axle 2,500
hp SD35 locomotive
is scheduled to arrive
during the third quar-
ter of 2015. The ready-to-run model will be available with a
high nose decorated for VMV Leasing and Southern Railway.
Low-nose versions of the SD35 will be available for Seaboard
System, Chessie
System-B&O, Chessie
System-C&O, Penn
Central, Penn Central
(red P), and Southern
Pacific as seen here
in the Kodachrome
scheme. Models for standard DC operation will have an MSRP of
$114.95. Models equipped with a DCC decoder will list at $149.95.
Broadway Limited
Imports
is tak-
ing reservations
for N scale models
of Pennsylvania
Railroad class M1a
and M1b 4-8-2 steam locomotives. The feature-laden ready-
to- run models are based on PRR’s 1930s-era dual-service
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