Product information
Mannequin railroad operators and builders can get the newest details about locomotives, freight vehicles, passenger vehicles, instruments, monitor, and extra by studying Mannequin Railroader’s frequent product updates. Listed below are the merchandise Mannequin Railroader editors have information on for the week of March 4, 2021.
HO scale locomotives
Normal Electrical Sprint 9-44CW diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (red-and-silver warbonnet); BNSF Ry. (red-and-silver warbonnet); Canadian Nationwide (crimson, white, and black); Fortescue Metals Group (blue and white); Norfolk Southern (black and white); and Southern Pacific (scarlet and grey with velocity lettering in 4 highway numbers). Three numbers per scheme until famous. Prototype-specific particulars; detailed gasoline tank with fillers, gasoline gauges, and breather pipes; and light-emitting-diode lighting. Direct-current mannequin with 21-pin NEM connector, $259.99; with dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami2 sound decoder, $349.99. March 2022. Genesis 2.0 sequence. Athearn Trains, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
United States Railroad Administration 0-6-0 steam locomotive. With sloped-back tender: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Baltimore & Ohio; Canadian Pacific; Pennsylvania RR; Soo Line; Union Pacific; and Wabash. With short-haul tender: Boston & Maine; Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis; New York Central System; Smoky Mountain Categorical; and Western Pacific. With Vanderbilt tender: Nice Northern, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific. Working smoke unit and headlight, die-cast metallic chassis, metallic wheels and facet rods, and E-Z Mate Mark II couplers. $155. Bachmann Trains, 215-533-1600, bachmanntrains.com
HO scale freight vehicles
40-foot gondola. Burlington Northern (Cascade Inexperienced), Norfolk & Western (black and white with “hamburger” herald), Seaboard Coast Line (black and yellow), Southern Pacific (brown with Gothic billboard lettering and Southern Pacific Traces herald), Southern Ry. (brown with Roman billboard lettering and highway quantity), and Texas & Northern (Oxide Crimson). Three highway numbers per scheme. Injection-molded plastic physique with metallic wheels and McHenry couplers. $34.99. March 2022. Roundhouse line. Athearn Trains, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
53-foot Railgon gondola. Railgon; Baltimore & Ohio; Chicago & North Western; Delaware & Hudson; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Elgin, Joliet & Jap; and Soo Line. Additionally accessible undecorated. New tooling primarily based on Railgon 310000-series vehicles. Proto-Max metallic couplers, 100-ton roller-bearing vehicles, and 36” turned metallic wheelsets. $27.98. WalthersMainline. Wm. Okay. Walthers Inc., 414-527-0770, walthers.com
Amtrak Materials Dealing with Automobile-2. Section 3 and 4 paint schemes. One quantity per scheme. Diagonal-panel roof, factory-applied ladders and door wheel, and Normal Metal Castings vehicles with 36” turned-metal wheelsets. $34.98. WalthersMainline. Wm. Okay. Walthers Inc., 414-527-0770, walthers.com
N scale freight vehicles
Pullman-Customary 5,277-cubic-foot-capacity boxcar. Primed for Grime: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (Railbox patchout); First Coast RR (Golden Triangle RR patchout); and Railbox (as-delivered scheme with up to date capability knowledge). Extra schemes: Burlington Northern (Cascade Inexperienced), Canadian Nationwide (Boxcar Crimson with “moist noodle” herald), and Southern Ry. (Boxcar Crimson with “Southern Serves the South” slogan). Three highway numbers per scheme. Screw-mounted vehicles and body-mounted McHenry scale couplers. $29.99 (Primed for Grime, $34.99). March 2022. Athearn N. Athearn Trains, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
Pennsylvania RR class K7A stockcar. Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate Street, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Pennsylvania RR, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Union Stockyard, and Western Pacific. Additionally accessible painted Boxcar Crimson however unlettered (single automobile with hog and cattle sounds, two-pack with out sounds), Pleased Holidays (vacation sounds), and Merry Christmas (vacation sounds). Every highway identify supplied as single automobile with cattle and hog sounds and in two-pack with out sounds. Plastic physique and dual-mode motion-activated sound results (depth of noises varies with movement). Costs to be introduced. April 2021. Broadway Restricted Imports, broadway-limited.com
O scale particulars and equipment
Electrical substation. Manufacturing unit-assembled and painted with management constructing and modeler-installed indicators. Extra factory-applied particulars embody insulators, cables, and circuit breaker. Measures 12-1/8” x 7-15/16” x 8-1/8”. $189.99. Woodland Scenics, 573-346-5555, woodlandscenics.com
Massive scale locomotives
Monitor cleansing locomotive. Union Pacific. Mannequin of monitor laying machine with two cleansing wheels. Wheelsets and cleansing wheels are every pushed by ball bearing Bühler motor. Contains mfx/Digital Command Management decoder with mild and sound features. Cleansing perform and operating sounds may also work in analog operation. $709.99. Second quarter 2021. LGB (Märklin Inc.), 800-321-8811, lgb.com
Deutsche Bahn III E94 Crocodile electrical locomotive. Two five-pole can-type motors; hook-and-loop couplers; spring-loaded metallic pantographs (not geared up for overhead pickup); molded and separate, factory-applied element components; working crimson and white directional lighting; and engineer determine. Direct-current mannequin could be upgraded with PIKO locomotive decoder no. 36122 and sound equipment no. 36197, each bought individually. $959.99. April 2021. PIKO America, 619-280-2800, piko-america.com
Deutsche Bahn IV BR 103 electrical locomotive with single-arm pantograph. Two five-pole can-type ball-bearing motors; hard-chrome plated ball-bearing wheels; hook-and-loop couplers; spring-loaded metallic pantographs (not geared up for overhead pickup); molded and separate, factory-applied element components; working crimson and white directional lighting; and engineer determine. Direct-current mannequin could be upgraded with PIKO locomotive decoder no. 36122 and sound equipment no. 36229, each bought individually. $864.99. April 2021. PIKO America, 619-280-2800, piko-america.com
Z scale locomotives
Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive. Canadian Pacific. Three highway numbers. Section III physique, three-chime airhorn, 800-gallon gasoline tank, winterization hatch, body-mounted quantity boards, 7.5mm coreless motor with twin flywheels, traction tires, built-in pilot, directional light-emitting-diode headlights, and body-mounted couplers. American Z Line, 614-764-1703, americanzline.com
Z scale freight vehicles
Gunderson Maxi-I five-unit articulated effectively automobile. TTX (yellow with present emblem and DTTX reporting marks). Three highway numbers. Vehicles embody 5 Hapag-Lloyd 40-foot intermodal containers and have metallic chassis with etched-metal particulars, add-on components, AutoLatch couplers, and roller-bearing vehicles. American Z Line, 614-764-1703, americanzline.com
Books
Heisler Locomotives Vol. 1: Geared & Fireless Locomotives. Reproductions of Catalog 123 (data on deciding on an industrial locomotive and the options discovered on Heisler locomotives); Heisler Fireless Locomotives (an outline of what a fireless locomotive is, some great benefits of a fireless locomotive, and a take a look at a few of the locomotives they construct), and Photos Inform the Story (a take a look at Heisler locomotives in use in varied industries together with quarries, gravel pits, strip mining, development work, switching, and logging). E-book additionally consists of 4 Descriptive Folders for Heisler geared locomotives (2240 [two truck, eight driver with I-beam frame], 4763 and 5065 [two truck, eight driver with diamond frame], and 7090 [three truck, 12 driver with diamond frame]). Softcover, 124 pages. $35. Producers’ Catalog Archive. SilverLake Photos LLC and Ron’s Books, 914-967-7541, ronsbooks.com
Roberts and Schaefer Co. Consultant Work Locomotive Coaling Crops. Replica of a 1919 publication displaying the sorts of locomotive coaling vegetation the corporate designed and constructed. Contains photographs displaying vegetation constructed for the Illinois Central, Lehigh Valley, Louisville & Nashville, Nickel Plate Street, Pennsylvania RR, Terminal Railroad Affiliation of St. Louis, and others. Additionally contains a take a look at gear contained in the vegetation, cinder dealing with, storage vegetation, and sand vegetation. Softcover, 74 pages. $35. Producers’ Catalog Archive. SilverLake Photos LLC and Ron’s Books, 914-967-7541, ronsbooks.com
Trolley Coaches Vol. 1: Westinghouse. Three copy Westinghouse publications: Westinghouse-Outfitted Trolley Coaches (A take a look at the advantages and options of trolley coaches. Contains specs for trolley coaches bought by transit programs throughout the nation), Trolley Coaches: Why Folks Like Them (Appears at the advantages of the trolley coach over different transit strategies), and Trolley Coaches 1, 2, 3 (Examines the place the trolley coach needs to be utilized and its benefits, the way it will carry out, and why its use is economically sound). Softcover, 90 pages. $35. Producers’ Catalog Archive. SilverLake Photos LLC and Ron’s Books, 914-967-7541, ronsbooks.com
Gregg Railroad Vehicles. Replica of an undated freight automobile gear catalog presumed to be from the Nineteen Fifties. Contains boxcars, cane vehicles, dump vehicles, flatcars, gable-bottom vehicles, gondolas, Granby vehicles, hoppers, mine vehicles, passenger vehicles, sisal vehicles, stockcars, and tank vehicles. Additionally reveals varied freight and passenger automobile vehicles utilized by the corporate and the several types of couplers accessible for the vehicles. Softcover. $35. Producers’ Catalog Archive. SilverLake Photos LLC and Ron’s Books, 914-967-7541, ronsbooks.com