Also due to arrive in March are three Genesis series GP9 locomotives decorated for Chessie (in both C&O and B&O schemes), Western Pacific, and in Southern Pacific’s passenger scheme. Because SP used the number boards to indicate the passenger train number, Athearn has left them blank so the modeler can use a decal for any train number they wish. Non-sound units will be DCC-ready using Quick Plug™ technology. They will have an MSRP of $189.98. Sound-equipped models will list at $289.98 and come with Soundtraxx® Tsunami® DCC decoders.
Central of Georgia, Pennsylvania Railroad, Norfolk & Western, Lehigh Valley, Interstate, and Norfolk Southern. Athearn says the DC models will be DCC-ready using Quick Plug™ technology. They are scheduled to be available in December at an MSRP of $139.98 each. Atlas Model Railroad Company (atlasrr.com) has just released FMC 5077 cu ft Plate B boxcars with a single door decorated for Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay, Atlantic & Western, Burlington Northern, and RailBox. A later version of the same car will soon be released for Cadiz Railroad; Escanaba & Lake Superior; Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion; and Port Huron & Detroit (with St Clair Blue Water Route slogan). The suggested list price of the HO scale ready-to-run models will be $34.95 each. An undecorated version will be available at $29.95.
During the first quarter of 2013, Atlas will begin shipping both low- and highnose phase 1 versions of Alco’s C420 locomotive. The prototypes have an interesting history that began in 1963 when Alco introduced the Century series 2,000 hp C420 as a replacement for its RS-32 series diesel. Atlas’s low-nose C420 represents locomotives originally owned by Lehigh Valley that were transferred to Delaware & Hudson when Conrail was formed in 1976. LV 405 was later sold by the D&H but was eventually returned and is now operating as Delaware-Lackawanna 405 in their attractive gray/white “corporate” scheme as seen here. Athearn will recreate Norfolk Southern’s ES44AC Heritage program by applying the memorable paint schemes of NS predecessor lines to ten of its HO scale AC4400 ready-to-run locomotives. The series includes (from left to right starting at the top row) Monongahela, Conrail, Southern Railway, Nickel Plate road, Page 122 • Sep 2012 MRH
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The high short-hood models in this production run represent locomotives originally owned by the Long Island Railroad. When their lease expired in 1976, LI’s phase 1 C420s were placed in storage on the Delaware & Hudson and Morristown & Erie Railroads. Some were leased by the D&H in 1977 and Tell a friend ...
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