Micro-Trains’
new Baltimore &
Ohio 50’ boxcar
features double
Youngstown
doors and a
Cushion Underframe slogan.
This new N scale
40’ Milwaukee
Road double-
deck stock car
has Murphy cor-
rugated steel
ends.
Completing our
listing of new
ready-to-run N
scale models
fromMicro-Trains
is a PRR 50’ steel gondola with fishbelly sides and drop ends.
NEW DECALS, SIGNS AND FINISHING
PRODUCTS
Great Decals
(PO Box 994, Herndon, VA 20172) has
released white lettering sets for Piedmont & Northern
boxcars. Each set includes material to authentically dec-
orate one car including the “Service with Courtesy”
slogan. The HO decals are $3.49 each, postpaid.
News column - 17
Herald King
, the venerable line of silk-
screened decals for HO scale
hobbyists, is once again avail-
able. Although the company was
acquired some time ago, the new
owners elected to spend several
years refreshing the line and digi-
tizing the art work before reintro-
ducing the respected brand. Of the approximately 1,000 decal
sets in the original line, about 75 percent are now available.
Additional information, including a listing of available decals, is
available at the website.
New decal sets recently released by
Microscale
include Department of Defense (DODX) freight cars;
Ferromex Railway (FXE) 53’ container and chassis; TankTrain
(GATX) road numbers for renumbering Athearn Genesis semi-
permanently interconnected TankTrain cars; and Denver &
Rio Grande Western (DRGW) early diesel switchers including
Fairbanks-Morse, EMD, GE, Baldwin, and Alco.
Previously released items that are now back in stock include
decals sets for Union Pacific steam locomotive silver lettering,
and the Santa Fe yellow warbonnet scheme.
Dan Kohlberg
) has added sev-
en new HO decal sets to his line. They are Gulf Mobile & Ohio red 50’
PS-1 boxcar 1969+, Illinois Central orange cabooses 1967+, Illinois Cen-
tral Gulf orange cabooses 1972, Illinois Central Gulf 40’ MOWmechani-
cal department training boxcar 1978+, Kansas Milling Company GATC
MRH-Nov 2014
