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N Scale January
Releases_____________________________________________________
Union Pacific®
Road Number: 417
This Pullman 78’ heavyweight paired-window coach car is painted with UP Armour Yellow sides and Harbor Mist Grey roof and ends. It has red stenciling with black outlines. It was built for the UP by Pullman in 1922 and numbered into series 402-421. It was remodeled and air conditioning was added by Pullman in 1936. This car was one of the typical coach styles that served many of the passenger car fleets as early as the 1930s. This series could be found in both local and regional trains and lasted long into the era of lightweight passenger cars and many went on to serve a variety roles including commuter and MOW service.
#145 00 060...$28.50
UP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Canadian Pacific
Road Number: 986
This Pullman 78’ heavyweight paired-window coach car is painted with CP Tuscan Red sides with black roof and ends. Herald and lettering are done in Dulux Gold. Built in 1926 and numbered into series 986-989, it car was one of the typical coach styles that served many of the passenger car fleets as early as the 1920s. This series could be found in both local and regional trains; they cars lasted long into the era of lightweight passenger cars and many went on to serve a variety roles including commuter and MOW service.
#145 00 080...$22.70
Pennsylvania Railroad
Road Number: PRR 21019
This 50’ standard box car with plug door is painted Tuscan Red with black and white keystone herald and white lettering. It was built in December 1959 by PRR’s Samuel Rea Shop and runs on Bettendorf trucks. This class X53 box car was part of PRR’s 1959 program to renovate its freight car fleet. They were generally used for handling food products and were equipped with heaters, sliding ‘flush doors’ and nine belt-rail Evans DF Loaders. The Evans DF loaders were a system of crossbars and belt rails on the interior of the sides. Crossbars would be mounted on the belt rails to prevent shifting of lading.
#032 00 460..$19.30
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Road Number: BNSF 585725
This 89’ TOFC flat car is painted brown with white lettering. It was built in July of 2006 and runs presently on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. It’s an FMS class AAR Type F414 flat car with a maximum gross weight of 263,000 lbs, and exterior length of 87’ 9”. It’s an ordinary flat car for general service, but has flooring laid over sills and without sides or ends. The road BNSF was formed December 31, 1996, as the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad. On January 24, 2005, the railroad’s name was officially changed to “BNSF Railway,” using the initials of its original name.
#071 00 090...$25.45
Northern Pacific
Road Numbers: NP 73606 / 73620
These 100-ton three bay hoppers with rib sides and coal loads are painted black with white heralds and lettering. They were built in April 1969 by Bethlehem Steel, serviced in June 1979, and run on Barber Roller Bearing truck. They were decorated in the BN-style of lettering and were part of one of the last groups of hoppers purchased by the Northern Pacific before the Burlington Northern merger in 1970.
#108 00 211...$20.40
#108 00 212...$20.40
Union Refrigerator Transit Lines
Road Numbers: U.R.T.X. 60769
This 40’ steel ice reefer is painted with white and green sides and black ends. The logo is green and yellow and the lettering is black or white. It was built in 1954, serviced in September 1962, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Capable of carrying 1,857 cu. ft. of freight, this 75,000 lb. capacity reefer displays the colorful Raskin Packing Company logo and name, proudly advertising ‘Siouxland’s Fine Beef’. Raskin leased this car from the Union Refrigerator Transit Lines, a Division of the General American Transportation Corporation.
#059 00 170...$28.50
Ronald Reagan Presidential Car
Road Number 1981-1989
This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #40 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan The car comes with a commemorative pin replicated from this era. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. Two terms as California’s governor preceded his presidency.
#074 00 140...$23.95
Great Northern
w/ Coal Load
Road Number: GN 73363
This 33’ twin bay hopper with offset sides is box car red with black and white logo and white lettering. It was built in October 1931, serviced in July 1950, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In 1931, the Standard Steel Car Co. built 500 all-steel hopper cars for the Great Northern. Hoppers of this series were serviced and repainted between 1948-1956 and kept their small sans serif lettering but received the new “Great Northern Railway” herald in place of the “See America First…Glacier National Park” herald. Hoppers of this era and series may have coexisted with the 1970 birth of the BN in Cascade Green. The GN used hoppers in revenue loading of coal, manganese and zinc concentrates, iron ore, bauxite, sand gravel crushed rock and sugar beets.
#055 00 060...$24.60
Milwaukee Road
Road Numbers MILW 2623
This 50’ standard box car with plug door has maroon sides with yellow stripes, black ends and aluminum roof. It was built in February 1964 and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. MILW 2623 is classed as RBL and is part of the 2600-2654 fifty-car series. This series has specially equipped interiors and is not suitable for general service. Over 20 years later, 20 cars form this series were still in operation with MILW reporting marks in the same paint scheme.
#032 00 420...$23.35
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Vintage Wagon 2-Pack
#470 00 029...$29.95
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Numbers 52 / 55
#045 00 401...$15.85
#045 00 402...$15.85
Baltimore & Ohio®
#452 00 100...$19.75
Conrail
#452 00 040...$24.15
Canadian National Runner Pack
#993 00 059...$54.95
N Cannery Kit
#499 90 936...$44.95
N Narrow Pier Kit
#499 90 937...$24.95 (2-pack)
N Freight Load
#499 43 978...$9.95 (2-Pack)
Nn3 Scale January
No New Releases for January
Z Scale January
Releases_____________________________________________________
North Carolina State Car
Road Number: NC 1789
This 40’ Standard Box Car with plug door is car #42 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Dogwood and Cardinal, North Carolina’s official state flower and bird. The flag of the state of North Carolina is in the background. The road number 1789 represents the year the ‘Tar Heel State’ was admitted into the union.
#502 00 542...$22.95
Canadian National
Road Numbers: 5367 / 5378
These SD40-2 powered locomotives are painted black with red nose and white stripe and white lettering. They bear the large white ‘Wet Noodle’ logos and gray maps of America. They were both built in 1978 by EMD. They were built in 1978 by Electro Motive Division as part of order #73613 for the Missouri Pacific®, later acquired by UP®, then CN. The North America Map paint scheme it is wearing was seen on many CN locos from 1992 through at least 2006.
#970 01 151...$195.95
#970 01 152...$195.95
Golden West Service
w/ Plywood Loads
Road Numbers: GVSR 443039 / 459003
These 60’ bulkhead flat cars are painted blue with yellow ‘Golden West Service’ and red and yellow logo. They were built in August 1971 by Greenbriar Railcar, Inc., with offices in Lake Oswego, OR, serviced in May 1987 by the Southern Pacific® at Roseville, CA, and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. These are from a 118-car fleet, with 147000 capacity, owned by Galveston Railroad, L.P.
#527 00 111...$26.85
#527 00 112...$26.85
Union Pacific®
Road Numbers UP 498051
This 50’ standard box car with plug door is painted yellow with aluminum roof and ends. It bears the red, white and blue UP shield, multi-colored ‘automated rail way’ logo, and is lettered in black. It was built in August 1963 at UP’s Omaha Shops and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. The UP “automated rail way” map design was approved in 1962: It projected an image of modern safety and efficiency resulting from the UP’s newly installed system of automated operational controls. The “Automated” map was applied only to smooth side boxcars and autocars to highlight their cushion load underframes. Even though the UP “We can Handle It” slogan replaced the “automated rail way” in 1970, many cars with the attractive map design remained running on the system.
#507 00 560...$31.80
UP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Norfolk & Western
Road Number: N&W 71475
This 70 ton PS-2 two bay covered hopper is painted gray with a large black herald and lettering. It was built in January 1960 by Greenville Steel Car Co., last serviced in September 1980, and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1960 and numbered into series 111100-111199, this car was repainted into this 1963 scheme when earlier shopped during the later ‘60s. It was most recently shopped in 1980. By that time the U-1 symbol and stencil box had been added.
#531 00 190...$20.70
Southern Pacific w/ Load Runner Pack
#994 00 037...$74.95
Z Coal Dock Kit
#799 90 956...$24.95
Z Jet Engine Container Load
#799 43 941...$9.95 (2-pack)
HOn3 Scale January
No New Releases for January