prototype built in the 1960s. Road names will be Atlanta & St.
Andrews Bay, BNSF, British Columbia, Chessie System (two
schemes), Chicago & Illinois Midland, CSX (two schemes), Family
Lines (SCL), and New England Central. The model will have an
MSRP of $39.95. An undecorated model will list at $24.95.
Also coming from Atlas in
the second quarter of
2015 is a run of their
GP38-2 with new road
numbers and new paint
schemes. Several road-
specific details are also promised. New road names on the Atlas
Trainman series locomotive will be Algoma Central, CSX, Indiana
Railroad, Family Lines (three variations), and Soo Line. The Santa
Fe version, seen here, will be rerun with new road numbers.
Atlas Silver series GP38-2s will have an MSRP of $139.95. They
will be DCC-ready and will have an NMRA compatible 8-pin plug.
Gold series locomotives will be equipped with QSI Quantum
Sound. They will list at $239.95.
Atlas reports that the
next production run of its
Master series 40’ post-
war AAR boxcar will be
released during the sec-
ond quarter of next year. Two road numbers will be produced for
Bangor & Aroostook, Delaware & Lackawanna, Clinchfield, and
Pittsburgh & West Virginia. All of the above will be fitted with
8’ Youngstown doors. A car decorated for Southern Railway will
have Superior doors. Atlas notes that other details such as roof
type, ladders, and ends will vary per prototype practice. The
HO scale ready-to-run models will have an MSRP of $29.95. An
undecorated version will list at $24.95.
News column - 7
Atlas showed a mockup of an HO scale FMC 5347 boxcar with
double offset doors at Trainfest in Milwaukee last month. The
car was identified as an Atlas Master Line series model, but no
information was available on possible road names or expected
release dates. Our guess is that it won’t appear any time soon,
but that it will be worth waiting for.
Bachmann
is selling its
HO scale sound equipped
Alco S2 switcher with
DCC and SoundTraxx with
16-bit sounds of a diesel
prime mover, three air horns, and a bell. Additional features
of the newly tooled model include diecast chassis, flywheel
all-wheel drive, directional headlights with soft white LED
lighting, Blunt trucks, and E-Z Mate Mark II knuckle couplers.
Road names are Santa Fe, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Union Pacific with a “Dependable Transportation” slogan. The
ready-to-run model has an MSRP of $215.00.
Work continues at
Blackstone Models
on developing an HOn3
D&RGW refrigerator car.
ACF built the 30’ proto-
type in 1908. Blackstone is recreating the car to reflect a 1926
rebuild that included the application of a metal Murphy roof.
Production notes indicate the ready-to-run model will be avail-
able in eight road numbers and three heralds: Flying Grande,
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