scale General Electric U28/U30 diesel locomotives. The glazing is precision laser-cut from pre-masked clear acrylic. AMB item #349 is available from hobby dealers.
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ccurail (www.accurail.com) has a 50-foot exterior post modern steel boxcar decorated for Montana Rail Link. The HO scale kit is available now. In December Accurail will release a 3-bay ACF covered hopper in three number sets decorated for ACFX Lease.
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aserKit, a division of American Model Builders (www.laserkit.com) has flush fitting replacement windows for Walthers Proto 2000 series HO
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thearn (www.athearn.com) has announced several items including both reruns with new road names and new items from new tooling. Leading off the brand new category is an HO scale 65-foot 6-inch mill gondola that will be initially released for Santa Fe, Bessemer & Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, Erie, Rock Island and Southern Pacific. Among the features of the newly tooled ready-to-run car are positionable ends, a side-mounted brake wheel and factory installed wire grab irons. The model is scheduled for delivery in April 2011 at $25.98 each or $35.98 with a cast resin pipe load and different car number. New tooling is also being prepared for a Genesis series HO scale 50-foot GATC 20,000 gallon type 30 acid tank car with an SHN designation. The Athearn team is working toward a September 2011 delivery date for UP and SP versions of General Electric’s giant 5000 horsepower U50 diesel locomotive. Serving as GE’s answer to the 1960s horsepower race, the U50B was essentially two U25B power plants on a single 83-foot chassis. The powerful locomotive used four sets of two-axle AAR-B trucks salvaged from GE’s earlier turbine project. The HO scale DCC-ready model will be released in Athearn’s standard (non-Genesis) ready-to-run line. New tooling is being prepared for N scale models of GATC 2600 Airslide twocar sets. The 34-foot cars are permanently connected by a drawbar. Joining the new N scale models in an April debut are HO scale cars from existing tooling. Burlington Northern, GATX (pale blue), Missouri Pacific and Soo Line will be released in both scales. Athearn will begin delivery next July of a Genesis series SD70M-2 painted and lettered for CN, Norfolk Southern and Florida East Coast along with the visually identical SD70ACe decorated in Union Pacific’s stylized Western Pacific Heritage scheme. Identifying features of the diesels include a fullheight nose door, rectangular windshields, dynamic brake equipment mounted at the rear of the long hood and the familiar, large flared radiators with twin fans. The HO scale models will be available with and without Tsunami®Sound. Reruns and new names include Athearn’s tried and true standard-line F7A diesel decorated for Baltimore & Ohio, Great Northern (passenger scheme), ATSF (warbonnet), Southern Pacific (bloody nose freight) and SP (Daylight)., plus a new scheme: Amtrak’s 10th Anniversary Surfliner.
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