News & Products for the week of September 22nd 2025
Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. The following are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of September 22nd, 2025.
HO scale locomotives
Broadway Limited Southern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 steam locomotive
Price: Direct-current model, $599.99; with DCC and sound, $699.99
Manufacturer: Broadway Limited Imports, 9 East Tower Circle, Ormond Beach, FL 32174; 386-673-8900; broadway-limited.com
Southern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 features:
- Die-cast metal boiler, tender body, and chassis
- Factory-installed engineer and fireman figures
- Road-number-specific details
- Separately applied handrails, ladders, conduit, generators, whistle, horn, and brass bell
Release date: To be announced.
Road names: Southern Pacific (multiple versions) and American Freedom Train.
Kato Electro-Motive Division F40PH diesel locomotive
Price: Direct-current model, $200; with DCC motor decoder, $300; with DCC and sound, $400
Manufacturer: Kato USA Inc., 100 Remington Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60173; 847-781-9500; katousa.com
Electro-Motive Division F40PH features:
- Illuminated number boxes with factory-printed number boards
- Five-pole motor with dual brass flywheels
- All-wheel electrical pickup from scale 42″ blackened metal wheels
- Road-specific details (ditch lights, cab air conditioners, fan height, and headlight arrangement)
Release date: Available now
Road names: Metra (standard and new paint schemes).
ScaleTrains General Electric ES44 GEVO diesel locomotive
Price: Direct-current model with 21-pin connector, $219.99; with ESU LokSound V5 sound decoder, $329.99
Manufacturer: ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Rd. NE, Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; scaletrains.com
General Electric ES44 GEVO features:
- Factory-applied wire grab irons, spare knuckles, train line hoses with silver glad hands, uncoupling levers, windshield wipers, mirrors, and sunshades
- 5,300-gallon fuel tank with internal waste retention tank, digital fuel gauge, vertical fuel gauge, and round fuel gauge
- GE Hi-Ad trucks with separately applied brake cylinders, single bracket air plumbing, and rotating bearing caps
- More than 20 see-through, etched-metal radiator intake and exhaust grills on sides and top of radiator compartment
Release date: March 2026
Road names: CSX (Atlantic Coast Line; Chessie System; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Clinchfield RR; Georgia RR; Louisville & Nashville; Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis; New York Central; Pan Am Railways; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Seaboard Air Line; and Seaboard Coast Line heritage units and Yn3 with “Boxcar” herald), BNSF Ry., Canadian National, CPKC, and Norfolk Southern.
HO scale rolling stock
ScaleTrains Rivet Counter Thrall 48-foot two-hood coil cars
Price: $56.99
Manufacturer: ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Rd. NE, Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; scaletrains.com
Thrall 48-foot two-hood coil cars features:
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers per scheme
- Body with dual trough design and center divider, 16 walkway side supports, and simulated wood trough interior
- Factory-applied end handrails, hood guides, stanchions, load divider tracks, metal grab irons, uncoupling levers, and train line hoses with silver glad hands
- Four wireform side grab irons and four wireform end grab irons
- Handbrake housing with wheel and chain detail
- See-through, photo-etched metal walkway
Release date: Available now
Road names: Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; BNSF Ry.; Burlington Northern; CSX; Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer; and Norfolk Southern.
WalthersMainline 60-foot high cube Plate F boxcar with horizontal side posts
Price: $39.98
Manufacturer: Wm. K. Walthers Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218; 414-527-0770; walthers.com
60-foot high cube Plate F boxcar with horizontal side posts features:
- Newly tooled sides with additional horizontal ribs
- Roof with X and diagonal panels
- Separately applied latch bars
- Detailed underbody with cushioned underframe and brake gear with angle-mounted reservoir
- 100-ton roller-bearing trucks
- Proto-Max metal couplers
- Also available undecorated
Release date: Winter 2026
Road names: TTX Co. (regular and high lettering), Ferromex, General American Marks Co. (BKTY and LRS reporting marks), and Union Pacific (with BKTY marks).
N scale rolling stock
55-ton two-bay fish-belly hopper
Price: Visit manufacturer’s website for pricing information
Manufacturer: Trainworld, 725 McDonald Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11218; 800-541-7010; trainworld.com
55-ton two-bay fish-belly hopper features:
- Custom-decorated Atlas Model Railroad Co. Master Line freight car
- Die-cast metal underframe and slope sheets
- Plastic body
- Removable coal load
- Solid-bearing trucks
- Accumate couplers
Release date: Fourth quarter 2025
Road names: Union Pacific (Spirit of the Union Pacific and Route of the Big Boy).
News & Products is a regular feature of Trains.com for model railroad operators and builders to get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more. Model railroad product news may include HO, N, O, S, and Z scales. Product release dates and prices will vary according to each manufacturer. If you are a manufacturer and have new product releases, please e-mail Senior Editor Cody Grivno at cody.grivno@firecrown.com.
