Air Line. Also new is “Chicagoland Electrified Railroads” pre-
senting a colorful view of mid-20th century operations of the
North Shore, South Shore, Aurora & Elgin, Illinois Central, and
Chicago street lines.
The Soo Line Historical and Technical
Society
) has published “Soo Line
Freight Equipment and Cabooses.” The
152-page hardbound 8.5” x 11” book
provides a comprehensive overview of
Soo equipment from the early 1900s
to the 2000s. More than 550 color
and B&W photographs are presented,
including many builders’ photos from
American Car and Foundry, Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co.,
and Pullman-Standard. The book includes notes on numbering,
painting and lettering. To order visit the website.
“The Streetcars of Florida’s First Coast”
is a new book by
award-winning author and historian Robert W. Mann. Mann
chronicles the story behind Florida’s bygone streetcar epoch
and the dramatic history of city builders, financiers, organized
labor, civil rights, fire, fever, nabobs, and railroad men. With
almost 60 miles of track, the Jacksonville Traction Company was
the largest streetcar system in Florida. The new book (ISBN-13:
9781626197077) is available through Barnes & Noble.
O SCALE PRODUCT NEWS
Atlas O
is taking reservations from dealers for third
quarter 2015 delivery of P-S 4750 triple-bay covered hopper
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cars. Pullman-
Standard built
the prototypes
between the late
1970s and early
‘80s. Road names on Atlas’s O scale version will be Chicago &
North Western, Rock Island, Union Pacific, and Illinois Central-
Canadian National as shown here. Models equipped with trucks
for 3-rail operation will have an MSRP of $58.95. Two-rail ver-
sions will list at $61.95.
Bachmann Trains
is selling
an On30 14-ton Stearns-
Heisler geared steam
locomotive that is factory-
equipped with a speaker
and DCC for speed, direc-
tion, and lighting. The locomotive features diecast construction,
all-gear drive with enclosed gearbox, heavy-duty universal joints,
constant soft white LED lighting, contoured wheel spokes, and
blackened railings. Road names include Colorado Mining Co.,
Greenbrier & Big Run, and Midwest Quarry. Locomotives painted
black but unlettered are available with white pinstripes and run-
ning boards, or with red window sashes, white running board
stripes, and white tires. The Stearns-Heisler model has an MSRP
of $439.00.
An optional Plug-and-Play sound module can be plugged into the
on-board decoder to create 16-bit SoundTraxx Tsunami sound
specific to the prototype. The Stearns-Heisler sound module
(item 44953) has an MSRP of $129.00.
MRH-Dec 2014
