Car trucks and carbodies Do you remember running boards and full-height ladders on box cars? They are known in the railway supply trade as freight-car components, and while running boards and full-height ladders have followed the telegraph key and the steam locomotive into railroad technological history, other components remain as key elements of the freight […]
Outfit cars Cars equipped with facilities for feeding and housing construction and maintenance employees in the field are known as outfit cars or camp cars. Over the years they have taken a number of forms. Because outfit cars are not revenue-producing equipment, railroads have tended to not spend much money on them, and a common […]
Marc Horovitz Gauge 1, ore-car setLGB of America6444 Nancy Ridge DriveSan Diego CA 92121Contact local dealer for price and availabilityWeb site: www.lgb.com Four-car set of plastic models of Great Lakes ore jennys lettered for PRR (# 40040; #40045 identical, different road numbers); opening hopper hatches; removable load; removable side extensions; alternate close coupling provided; no […]
Marc Horovitz 1:20.3-scale boxcar kit, less trucks & couplersPhil’s Narrow Gauge1008 Hampshire LaneWindsor CA 95492-8535Price: $75Web site: www.philsnarrowgauge.com Kit for a D&RGW 3000-series box car, less trucks and couplers; cast-metal parts; laser-cut or milled wood; preformed grab irons and steps; illustrated instructions. The finished car is 18″ long x 43/4″ wide x 5″ high. In […]
Jim Schulz Jim Schulz 1″ scale, diesel switcher, gondola, and track kitsRiding Railkits, Inc.249 MacPherson Dr.Corbeil, Ontario P0H 1K0 CanadaPrice: $1,995 for locomotive; $350 for gondola (not including trucks and couplers); $149.95 for gondola detail kit; $59.95 for a 10-foot section of pre-fabricated trackWeb site: www.ridingrailkits.com Generic, industrial, four-wheel diesel switcher and gondola kits for […]
Download these free plans for a work caboose! They accompany our “Garden railway basics” articles from the June and August 2006 issues. Follow along with author Kevin Strong to build a work caboose from styrene. […]
Micro-Trains Line Co. announced that it will be releasing a Z scale Electro-Motive Division GP9. The model, scheduled for release in early 2007, will feature a Maxon 8 mm coreless motor with dual flywheels, golden-white light-emitting-diode headlights, etched-metal handrails, and Magne-Matic couplers. Road names and pricing information yet to be released. […]
Athearn HO 65-foot mill gondola An excellent model of a 65-foot mill gondola with movable drop ends is now available from Athearn. It comes ready-to-run with metal wheels and insulated magnetic knuckle couplers. Mill gondolas are designed to haul finished steel products such as angles, I-beams, or other structural shapes. All of the bracing is […]
Price: $34.98 Manufacturer Walthers P.O. Box 3039 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone 414-527-0770 www.walthers.com Description Ready-to-run HO scale plastic and metal baggageexpress car Road names Pennsylvania RR (five versions), Long Island RR,Norfolk & Western (N&W class Bej), Penn Central, and undecorated Walthers’ HO scale Pennsylvania RR baggage car is an accurate model of a prototype that […]
Trix HO N5c cabin car The new Trix N5c Pennsylvania RR caboose, or “cabin car” in Pennsy parlance, is just as distinctive as any of the Pennsylvania RR’s home-built locomotives. It’s a superb rendition of the prototype, and it comes ready-to-run. Prototype. The N5c cabin car was a refinement of the more numerous N5, introduced […]
Accurail HO AAR 70-ton triple hopper This AAR 70-ton offset-side hopper from Accurail is a creatively designed and well-executed model of a very common freight car of the steam and steam-diesel transition eras. The model is an accurately scaled representation of a car built to the AAR standard of 1935. Production of the prototype cars […]
Micro-Trains Line N scale Ortner This distinctive Ortner Rapid Discharge hopper car, designed for heavy, dense loads like sand, gravel, limestone, and iron ore, is a recent addition to the Micro-Trains Line. It’s a replica of a 100-toncapacity prototype built in the early 1970s by the Ortner Freight Car Co. (now part of Trinity Rail […]
