how to carve plaster rocks and make bottle-brush trees. The 103-minute DVD sells for $29.95 plus $4.95 shipping and can be ordered from Dave’s web site www.mrscenery.com.
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astern Seaboard Models (www.esmc.com) has released several N scale versions of the boldly-decorated Magor/AC&F 40-foot class XIH insulated plug-door boxcar that became known as State of Maine cars. Available now are Bangor & Aroostook and New Haven “State of Maine” cars in their 1953 as-built schemes. Also a Bangor & Aroostook car with a 1968-era red body and large B&A herald. The final car in this first release is a New York New Haven & Hartford car as repainted in 1968 in oxide red with a large NH blockletter herald. The next batch of XIH cars is due in October and will include “State of Maine” cars decorated for B&A (in both 1950 and 1969 schemes), a Penn Central car with 1972-era green body, and a similar 1979-era Conrail car sans roofwalk.
The Platinum series HO scale edition will have factory installed Kadee® #58 couplers, equalized 100-ton trucks, separate door tracks, close-to-scale draft gear, drop-down brake rigging, air lines, coupler cut levers, and air hoses. It will be offered in 24 road numbers at $32.95 each. The N scale version is to be priced at $24.95 each and will feature machinedmetal wheel sets and several finely etched metal detail parts. A welcome upgrade are body-mounted knuckle couplers rather than the Talgo-type ExactRail has used on previous N scale models. Speculation is that ExactRail may have had this product in their pipeline for some time but planned to follow their usual method of delaying the introductory announcement until finished goods are in their Utah warehouse. ExactRail’s decision to pre-book may have been prompted in July when BLMA announced the same HO and N scale models at the National Train Show.
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OS Limited (www.foslimited.com) has launched a new series of DVDs featuring the artistry of some of the hobby’s most-talented master modelers. The series is off to a good start with the initial release featuring John Elwood’s inspiring “Olympic & Puget Sound Railway.” The DVDs are available through hobby dealers or direct at $29.95 plus shipping.
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xactRail (www.exactrail.com) has released this HO scale Evolution series PC&F 6033 Hy-Cube boxcar in the distinctive SP yellow door scheme in 12 car numbers. New paint schemes for NP, CGW, Soo, Cargill and Producers are now available on ExactRail’s HO scale Platinum series PS-2CD 4427 covered hopper. The company also released a Southern Railway version of its PullmanStandard 50-foot 5277 cubic-foot Waffle boxcar. The HO scale Signature series model is available in 12 car numbers. In a departure from its usual business plan, ExactRail is soliciting advance reservations for HO and N scale models of a Trinity-built 64-foot TrinCool™ refrigerated car as operated by the Union Pacific Railroad. Although no specific date has been mentioned, delivery is expected before the end of this year. Page 24 • Issue 9 • Sep/Oct 2010 • Old Yardmaster - Industry scuttlebutt, page 4
ew releases expected from InterMountain Railway (http://irailway. qwestoffice.net/) this month include Red Caboose N scale 42-foot fishbelly flat cars and Evans coil-cars in both HO and N scale. A new production run of four popular Red Caboose HO scale general service drop-bottom gondolas has been scheduled for delivery next spring. Pending receipt of advance reservations, the future run will include SP and NP cars with steel sides, D&RGW versions with composite sides, and an SP composite-side car with board extensions for beet service. All will be available in six car numbers except the beet car which will be available in 12 numbers. In other news, IMRC has delayed setting a firm production date for its Z scale cylindrical hopper pending sufficient reservations from dealers.
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his Bettendorf-type T-section caboose truck is the latest addition to Kadee’s (www.kadee. com) growing selection of selfcentering HGC two-piece equalized HO scale trucks. The new trucks come with 33-inch ribbed-back RP25 non-magnetic metal wheels. Other caboose trucks currently available in the HGC series include
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