Walthers January
schedule includes the
release of Proto series
EMD GP30 diesel. The
ready-to-run HO scale
locomotive will feature road specific details for Southern
Railway, Norfolk & Western, Union Pacific, and CSX. A DC ver-
sion will have an MSRP of $199.98. A DCC model with
SoundTraxx Tsunami sound will list at $299.98.
January will also
see the release of a
Walthers Mainline
series SW1 locomotive.
Road names for the
economy-priced DC model will be Chessie System, Burlington
Northern, Norfolk Southern, and Burlington.
Four versions of a 25’ Chesapeake & Ohio wood caboose are
scheduled for release in late January. The WalthersProto model
is based on the C&O 90700 series caboose. Built in the 1920s,
the prototypes continued in service through the 1960s. The
MSRP will be $39.98.
A kit for Metro Power & Light
will be available from Walthers in
January. The structure is typical of
medium to small coal-fueled elec-
tric generating power plants. The
assembled Cornerstone kit has a
footprint of 14” x 10”. The stack is
13” tall. The MSRP will be $64.98.
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Westerfield
is selling HO
scale resin kits for several
versions of Santa Fe class
Sk stock cars. Three ver-
sions of the prototype are
available including the
original cars built in 1910 that remained in service until 1935,
and a 1935 rebuilt version that operated until 1965. Also, as
shown above, a kit is offered for a modern version of the Sk
stock car built in 1942/43 and actively used until 1965.
Also available are resin
kits for AT&SF class
Sk-M and Sk-O double-
deck cars as illustrated
in the Additional new
resin kits available now
include Rock Island sin-
gle-deck stock cars with
both wood roofs and cars
rebuilt with Murphy XLA
roofs (above). Visit the
website for complete information on these prototypically accu-
rate kits.
Yarmouth Model
Works
continues to expand
its selection of
photo-etched HO scale detail parts for prototype modelers.
MRH-Dec 2014
