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 […]
Atlas HO tank cars Trinity Industries 17,600-gallon corn syrup tank cars are the newest ready-to-run HO scale models from Atlas. More than 7,000 prototype tank cars of this design were built from 1984 to 1998. Corn syrup tank cars are used to transport liquid sugar, molasses, and corn syrup. All of these commodities must be […]
Branchline Pullman Standard HO sleeper passenger car Now you can equip your HO limiteds with heavyweight Pullman sleeping cars that are as accurate and well-detailed as the best imported brass models. Branchline Trains has introduced finely molded plastic kits for cars that were the mainstays of long-distance travel. The kits have many parts and take […]
Rib Side Cars HO Milwaukee Road boxcar This HO scale ribbed-side boxcar represents the signature freight car of the old Milwaukee Road and is the first accurate model in this scale to be offered as an easily built kit. Rib Side Cars’ first offering should please Milwaukee Road modelers and freight car afficionados alike. In […]
Bowser HO class N8 cabin car Bowser’s easy plastic kit for a Pennsylvania RR class N8 steel cabin car (PRR’s term for a caboose) greatly simplifies modeling the “Standard Railroad of the World.” The 200 cars of this class were built at the PRR’s Altoona, Pa., shop between 1950 and 1951. They saw service system-wide, […]
