different road numbers will be available for cars with slogans for the Chief, Super Chief, Grand Canyon and Santa Fe All The Way. Tooling is underway for an HO scale Checker Model A8 Taxi to be released in April. Initial schemes will include Checker Taxi in orange, a yellow Checker Taxi with white doors, Beverly Hills Cab Company in white over blue, and Independent Cab Company decorated in red, white and blue. The fully assembled cabs feature rubber tires and clear window glazing.
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he crew at Blackstone Models (www.blackstonemodels.com) is staying busy this winter as they put the final touches on three significant HOn3 projects. The company is soliciting dealer reservation through the end of January for a special production run of its class K-27 locomotive that was last produced some 3 years ago. Road numbers 453, 463 and 464 will be repeated along with three new numbers: 452 (outside cylinder, Flying Grande herald), 458 (inside cylinder, Moffat Tunnel herald) and
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ew HO scale releases from Accurail (www.accurail.com) this month include a newly tooled offset-side twin-hopper car decorated for Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio; PRR 89-foot partially enclosed bi-level auto racks in mineral-red with silver panels and black, white and red placard; a 41-foot Monon Road steel gondola in oxide red with white graphics in single and threepacks; a Northern Pacific 40-foot single-sheathed wood 6-panel boxcar and a single-door steel NP boxcar both decorated in mineralred with white, black & red monad graphics; and an Illinois Central 50foot double plug-door steel boxcar
painted orange with white and black graphics.
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thearn’s N scale team will have four new F45/FP45 diesels ready for delivery in May. The F45s include Wisconsin Central, Utah Railway in green and black and Utah Railway in red and gray. The FP45 is a Santa Fe Super Fleet painted in the traditional war bonnet scheme. Each of the locos will be available as a DC without sound, DCC-ready with no sound and DCC equipped with Tsunami Sound by SoundTraxx. Athearn plans to ship four versions of HO scale SFRD 50-foot steel reefers to dealers in April. Three
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FIGURE 1: Atlas (www.atlasrr.com) is quoting a June delivery date for the sixth run of it’s popular HO scale Trainman series GP38-2 diesels. Paint schemes will include Belt Railway of Chicago (gray/black/yellow), Canadian Pacific Railway (red/white “Beaver”), Florida East Coast (blue/white), Illinois Terminal (green/yellow), Long Island Railroad (blue/yellow), and Rock Island (blue/ white “Rock”). The locomotives come with an NMRA 8-pin plug to simplify installation of DCC and the body shells will have locating dimples for installing individual grab irons. Locomotives in Atlas’ economy Trainman line utilize the same drive train as their upscale Master series. The Union Pacific GP38-2 shown above is from an earlier production run.
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