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Jerry Kitts, the brains and sweat behind Foothill Model Works, has a welldeserved reputation for creating some beautifully detailed wheels and wheelsets for the narrow gauge crowd. He is currently considering tooling a 26-inch wheel in On3, but is uncertain of the sales potential for such a niche item. If you are a potential consumer of ¼” scale 26” wheelsets, please leave a note of encouragement for Jerry at foothillmodelworks.com. By the way, the web site has been upgraded and now includes new information and several references to the justlyfamous Nevada County Railway… Members of the West Texas HOn3 Modular Group meet on an internet “Skype” hookup at 7:30 p.m. CST on the first Friday of each month. The discussion explores all aspects of narrow gauge modeling. Newcomers can get started by signing up at the WestTexasHOn3Modular yahoo group … In response to requests from prototype modelers, Kadee has decided to package its code 88 semi-scale wheelsets. Both ribbed and plain backs will be available for 33-inch wheels, while 36-inch wheels will be offered in plain back only. The packaged wheels should begin to show up at dealers before the end of May…
INDUSTRY NEWS AND VIEWS
After completing volume 67 in his series of Great Model Railroads, videographer Allen Keller has called it a wrap. Keller has had a fascinating career documenting many of the hobby’s finest model railroad layouts - initially for Model Railroader Magazine and Hopewell Productions, and finally his own Allen Keller Productions. The body of Keller’s work will stand as a legacy to many of the great layouts and layout builders in the hobby. Some memorable layouts have already been torn down or undergone drastic changes, but the originals still live in Keller’s videos which will continue to be available through www.allenkeller.com...
No one I know wants to increase the cost of participating in our hobby, but with international oil prices and labor costs in Asia both on the rise, price increases seem inevitable. Bowser, for example, has announced an across the board increase on all Cal Scale items effective May 1, 2011. Walthers says it has no choice but to increase the price on many of its proprietary items including those with the following prefix numbers: 433- Scenemaster, 669-Shinohara, 920-Proto series, 931-Trainline, 932-Walthers brand, 933-Cornerstorne, 947-tools and threaded products, and 948-Walthers accessories…
ExactRail will soon announce that trucks on its Platinum and Signature series HO scale rolling stock will be fitted with metal axles. It will take some time to work through current inventory before the changeover can be fully implemented. To get started, ExactRail has already introduced a100-pack of code 88 (.088”) wheelsets with metal axles….
Kato is promoting its N scale GE 4400-series locomotives (C44-9W, AC 4400CW and ES44AC GEVO) with a free wall poster that can be downloaded at www. katousa.com/PDF/44-Series-Poster.pdf. The colorful poster provides information of interest to diesel fans of all scales…
InterMountain has increased its presence in the field of Z scale by taking on the exclusive North American distribution of Rokuhan, a Japanese manufacturer of Z scale track. Rokuhan track products can be viewed at intermountain-railway.com…
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Westerfield Models is for sale. Anyone seriously interested in acquiring the business can contact Al Westerfield through the company web site at www. westerfield.biz...
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