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News & Products for the week of January 3, 2008All the new product announcements received by the Model Railroader Product News desk this week
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January 3, 2008  General Electric AC4400CW diesel locomotive
General Electric AC4400CW diesel locomotive. Kansas City Southern de Mexico. Machined RP-25-profile metal wheelsets, magnetically operated knuckle couplers, and equipped with Quick Plug Digital Command Control (DCC) technology. $99.98. Ready-to-Roll. Athearn Trains
Lotschbergbahn Class Ae6/8 electric locomotive. For Swiss mountain service. Can motor with flywheel, cast-metal frame, and directional lighting. DCC-ready. $203.42. Ready-to-run. Reynaulds Euro Imports Inc.
HO scale freight cars
Assorted freight cars. Pennsylvania RR (Circle Keystone) and Western Maryland GLa two-bay hoppers, $13.95; Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo 55-ton two-bay U Channel hopper, $12.95; and Norfolk & Western 55-ton fishbelly peaked-end hopper, $12.95. Kits include knuckle couplers and three new road numbers. Bowser
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 Southern Pacific A-50-16-series and St. Louis Southwestern 46300-series 40-foot autocars
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 Southern Pacific A-50-13-series double-door autocars |
 Pine Bluffs Shops 33500-33849-series steel boxcars with 14-foot doors |
 Southern Pacific 50-foot double-door A-50-12-series autocars |
HO scale passenger cars
30-seat streamlined parlor car. Based on the 1955 Milwaukee Road "Twin Cities Hiawatha." Die-cast Proto Max knuckle couplers and correct 8-foot wheelbase nystrom trucks. $44.98. Ready-to-run. Wm. K. Walthers Inc.
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 John Deere 5010 tractor
John Deere 5010 tractor. Die-cast model with rubber tires. $5.98. Ready-to-Roll. Athearn Trains
GMDD wide cab. Injection-molded styrene kit with multi-layered photo-etch and acrylic accessories. $46.49. Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
Assorted locomotive details. Salem filters and air line traps, $7.49; Types E and F knuckle mid-coupler plates, $4.49; and pyle headlights, $7.49. Injection-molded styrene kits with photo-etched details. Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
Electro-Motive Division detail parts. Photo-etched steps, $16.49; and photo-etched pilots, $12.49. For second generation locomotives. Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc. |
 Assorted figure sets |
 Bicycle stand |
 Miners with masks |
| Square concrete pilings with heavier caps. Span segments, caps, pilings, basswood trackbed plates, and NBW castings. Pilings available in four different lengths and in four-packs. Single-track bridges, $10 per section. Double-track bridges, $20 per section. Box Girder line. Scale Segmental Bridge Co. |
 Chesapeake & Ohio Vanderbilt tender
Chesapeake & Ohio Vanderbilt tender. Great Northern. Dummy knuckle coupler and N scale National Model Railroad Association-wheel-profile. $35. Ready-to-run. Bachmann
United States Railroad Association long tender. Denver & Rio Grande Western "Flying Grande." Dummy knuckle coupler and N scale National Model Railroad Association-wheel-profile. $35. Ready-to-run. Bachmann |
 Assorted freight cars
Assorted freight cars. Burlington Northern 50-foot rib-side, double-door boxcar, $20.95; Conoco 50-foot autocar with double side doors and wood running board, $18.35; Denver & Rio Grande Western 50-foot flatcar with fishbelly sides, $15.30; Department of Defense heavyweight depressed-center flatcar with covered military load, $22.35; McCloud River RR 60'-8" Thrall centerbeam flatcar, $27.90; Reading 33-foot twin-bay, offset-side hopper, $17.95; and Soo Line 40-foot drop-bottom gondola, $18.45. Ready-to-run. Micro-Trains Line Co. |
 1:22.5-proportion figures
1:22.5-proportion figures. American porter with luggage, $18.99 each; and American sleeping car porter and waiter, two-pack $33.99. Wm. K. Walthers Inc. |
 American railway personnel |
 Travelling women |
 Couples with dog
Couples with dog. Three couples and one dog. $13.99 per set. Wm. K. Walthers Inc. |
 Protestant nuns with children
Books
Passenger Cars, vol. 3. Documents the development of light-weight streamlined extra-fare accommodation and special purpose passenger cars in operation from the post-war era to the twilight of independent railroad passenger service. Sixty car drawings rendered in HO scale, more than 120 photos, and a complete 1972 Amtrak roster. 123 pages. $32.95. Carstens Publications Inc.
Containers A-Z. By David G. Casdorph. PDF book on CD provides an extensive photographic record of intermodal containers and documents the ISO types, characteristics, owner/operator information, and available models. Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or later. Ninety-three pages. Series originally published in the April 2000-February 2003 issues of Model Railroading magazine. $18.95 plus $4.85 shipping and handling. Highlands Station, LLC
Club cars
Northeast N-Trak covered hopper. N scale Micro-Trains club car painted Baltimore & Maryland blue and decorated for the Northeast N-Trak Model Club. $29 plus $7.50 shipping and handling per order up to six cars. Send orders to Northeast NTRAK, c/o Mark Ferracane, 51 Cordis St., Wakefield, MA 01880. |
Manufacturers featured in this week's News & Products
Athearn Trains, 1550 Glenn Curtiss St., Carson, CA 90746; www.athearn.com
Bachmann, 1400 E. Erie Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19124; www.bachmanntrains.com
Bowser, P. O. Box 322, Montoursville, PA 17754; www.bowser-trains.com
Carstens Publications Inc., 108 Phil Hardin Rd., Newton, NJ 07860; www.carstens-publications.com
Highlands Station, LLC, 4255 S. Buckley Rd., #137, Aurora, CO 80013; www.HighlandsStationLLC.com
Micro-Trains Line Co., P.O. Box 1200, Talent, OR 97540; www.micro-trains.com
Noch GmbH & Co., Postfach 1454, D-88230, Wangen im Allgäu, www.noch.com
Railflyer Model Prototypes, Inc., 2694 Rte. 124, Kars, New Brunswick, Canada, E5T 2W6; www.railflyermodelprototypes.com
Reynaulds Euro Imports Inc., 122 N Main St., Elburn, IL 60119; www.reynaulds.com
Scale Segmental Bridge Co., P.O. Box 34433, North Kansas City, MO 64116; www.scalebridge.com
Wm. K. Walthers Inc., P.O. Box 3039, Milwaukee, WI 53201; www.walthers.com |
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