underbody including all brake equipment, and 33” metal wheelsets. Available roads will be Baltimore & Ohio, CB&Q, GSX, and Northern Pacific as seen here. The ready-to-run models have an MSRP of $34.98 each.
Walthers plans to release its 54’ UTLX 23,000 gallon funnel flow tank car in six road names late this month. Features on the HO scale model include a newly-tooled etched-metal walkway and loading platform, separate grab irons, road-specific placement of manways and safety valves, complete train line and brake rigging, and 36” metal wheel sets. Decorating schemes include Cargill, CELX/Celtran, SHPX/Kerr-McGee, Procor, SUNX/Sunoco, and ADMX- Archer-Daniels-Midland as seen above. WalthersProto™ ready-to-run models have an MSRP of $37.98 each.
Walthers Mainline series hopper cars will be available late next month at an MSRP of $24.98 each. The 34’ 100-ton two-bay MRH-Jan 2013
cars will be decorated for Norfolk Southern (red oxide body), Southern (red oxide body), SP/UP (boxcar red with UP shield), and SP Golden West Service as seen above. The HO scale ready-to-run cars are weighted with a one-piece die-cast underframe.
Prototype photo courtesy of Darin Umlauft
Walthers has scheduled a second quarter release date for its Mainline series of 53’ rebuilt Husky Stack well cars. The allpurpose well
car can handle 20’, 40’, 45’, 48’, and 53’ containers. Road names will be TTX, FEC (yellow), FEC (mineral red), St. Mary’s Railway West, and undecorated. The HO scale ready-to-run models will be available individually at an MSRP of $24.98 and in 3-packs at $69.98.
WrightTRAK Railroad Models LLC (wrighttrak.com) has acquired the HO scale product line of Smoky Mountain Model Works (SMMW). According to the announcement, all of the HO scale kits formerly sold by SMMW are now available from WrightTRAK. The list includes a Southern Railway Pullman-Standard gondola priced at $44.95. The gondola is available in both the as-delivered railroad Roman lettering and the later block lettering style. Also currently available are two versions of the Tennessee Central boxcar built by Pullman-Standard in 1941 and humorously labeled by railroad historians as the PS-0. Both the as-built version and
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