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Athearn’s PS-2 twin-bay 2600 cu. ft. covered hopper will be avail-
able decorated for Detroit & Mackinac, Burlington Northern,
Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk &Western, and Erie Lackawanna.
Features include a photo-etched roof walk.
Athearn’s August
schedule includes
a run of
20,900-gallon
general-service tank cars based on a prototype built by Richmond
Tank Car Company. Road names will be BNSF, Santa Fe, Celtran
Inc., PTLX-General Electric Rail Services, and Dow Chemical.
Completing
Athearn’s August
releases is a run
of Fruehauf 40’
Z-Van trailers. The N scale models will be decorated for Santa Fe,
Chessie System, C&NW, Southern, Nacionales de México, and
Union Pacific. Also an unlettered owner-operator version.
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Atlas Model Railroad
Company
)
is developing new paint
schemes for its Master series
Alco S-2 diesel locomotive.
Availability of both DCC-equipped (ESU Sound) and conven-
tional DC versions of the N scale model is scheduled for the third
quarter of this year. In addition to the Lehigh Valley scheme
shown here, road names will include Canadian National, Central
Vermont, Chicago North Western, Milwaukee Road, New Haven,
Denver & Rio Grande, and Union Pacific. An undecorated version
will also be available.
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Also due in the third quarter
is an Evans 52’ 6” steel gon-
dola. The ready-to-run N
scale model will ride on 100-ton roller bearing trucks. Paint
schemes will be Burlington Northern (green), Canadian National
(wet noodle), Erie Lackawanna, Denver & Rio Grande Western,
CSXT, and Conrail.
An Atlas Trainman series
90-ton triple-bay hopper
will be available decorated
in Norfolk Southern’s “Pier
6” scheme. New road numbers will be available for Chicago
North Western, CSX (NYC), Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, and
Bessemer & Lake Erie. Visit the above website for additional
details including pricing.
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Bachmann Trains
is sell-
ing an N scale version of
a General Electric 70-ton
diesel switcher equipped
with DCC for speed, direc-
tion, and lighting. In addition to the unlettered black version
shown here, the Spectrum series model is available unlettered
in black over yellow, and cream over orange. Fully decorated
models are available for Louisville & Nashville, and Bethlehem
Steel. The ready-to-run locomotive has a list price of $143.00.
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Bowser
) is booking reservations for
a production run of class GLa twin-bay coal hopper cars
