Scale Model Railroading

40′ PS-1 Box Car with Scale Coupler
#4070 Milwaukee
6′ 7 Panel Superior
Dark Tuscan

40′ PS-1 Box Car with Scale Coupler
#313 RUTLAND
3 Pack

50′ PS-1 Box Car with Gradual Side Sill & Scale Coupler
#6314 Delaware & Hudson
10′ 6 Panel Superior Door
Yellow

PS-2 Two Bay Hopper Scale Coupler
#8030 St. Louis- San Francisco
Hat Rib & Tube Defect Card Holder
Alkali Resisting Light Gray

Kadee^® PS-1 Boxcars all feature: Clearly legible and prototypical lettering, clear plastic box for ease of viewing & storage, sliding doors, Kadee^® #2100 “scale” coupler & graft gear box, Kadee^® self centering, smooth rolling, fully sprung trucks with brake shoes, see-through running board & brake platform, “scale” grabs & full length ladders. Magnificently detailed hand brake, brake box, see-through molded chain, slack adjuster, air hoses, cut levers, air reservoir, brake-rod, triple valve, piping make the cars a work of art & meets NMRA standards.

Kadee^® PS-2 Hoppers all feature: Clearly legible and prototypical lettering, clear plastic box for ease of viewing & storage, functional roof hatch covers, defect card holder, Kadee^® “scale” coupler & draft gear box, Kadee^® self centering, smooth rolling, fully sprung trucks with brake shoes, see-through running board & brake platform, “scale” grabs & full length ladders, magnificently detailed hand brake, brake box, see-through molded chain, slack adjuster, air hoses, cut levers, air reservoir, brake-rod, triple valve, piping makes the car a work of art & meets NMRA standards.

Kadee will also be at the NMRA National Train Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on the weekend of July 18 – 20 in booths 430 and 431.  They will have a number of preproduction prototype of new products to unveil at the show, but have released no details as to what they are, so they will be a surprise.

July Releases from Atlas 

HO H600/H660 Locomotive

Between 1931 and 1940 ALCO built 177 high hood (HH) switching locomotives of various horsepower ratings and body styles. The “HH” models were forerunners to the popular S-series of switchers which featured lower hoods. ALCO’s high hood switchers were in production long before similar models from competitors EMC/EMD (1935) and Baldwin (1937). Interestingly, the “HH” model designation is a term coined by rail historians to describe what ALCO documentation had simply referred to as 600-hp or 660-hp switchers. In later years ALCO had referred to these early units as “high hood switchers” so this designation is appropriate.

Of the 177 high hood switchers built, 104 were HH600s, 18 were HH660s, 21 were HH900s and 34 were HH1000s. Some of the largest users of these models included New Haven, Lackawanna and New York Central. Various physical changes occurred during the 19 years these locomotives were in production. The biggest change occurred in 1934 when ALCO hired industrial designer Otto Kuhler to improve the appearance of their very boxy, utilitarian switchers. The post-1937 production units we are now offering featured many of his suggested improvements.

In 1938 ALCO introduced a line of high hood switchers powered by the new model 538 diesel engine which featured a cast iron engine block. This engine was offered in both a 660-hp (non-turbocharged 538) and 1000-hp (turbocharged 538-T) switcher, each weighing approximately 196,000 pounds. The horsepower rating could be adjusted downward slightly per customer specification by lowering the RPM of the diesel engine. Therefore, 600-hp and 900-hp models were offered concurrently. The HH600 and HH660 locomotive models we are offering were produced from 1938 to 1940 and were externally identical.
MSRP: $149.95
Estimated Delivery: October 2008
Features:

• All new tooling
• Early Blunt truck with separate brake cylinders, molded coil spring detail (optional) and metal truck chains
• Separately-applied metal grab irons and lift rings
• Separately-applied fine scale handrails and stanchions, coupler cut lever and piping
• Directional lighting with golden-white LEDs
• Five-pole skewed armature motor with dual flywheels for optimum performance at all speeds
• QSI sound-equipped version coming soon
• Atlas Master™ Series Silver
• NMRA 8-pin plug for DCC (Decoder-ready)

HO Pulpwood Flatcar

Pulpwood is not a specific type of wood, but actually tree limbs that are cut to a specified length, then turned into wood pulp and used in the paper industry. Early paper making had the trees near the paper plant. As timber resources were diminished, the need for transporting pulpwood began to rise. Railroads were seen as an efficient method of transporting pulpwood. Pulpwood in the Southeast and Northeast is generally cut into four-foot or less lengths and loaded onto “V-deck” bulkhead flat cars. The Atlas pulpwood flat is a reproduction of an early 1950s General Steel Castings “V-deck” design.

MSRP: $25.95 decorated, $19.95 undecorated
Estimated Delivery: November 2008

Features:

News

Model Train Buffs Gather – National N Scale Convention
Louisville Courier-Journal

Accuracy was main focus of creators of dioramas for Aiken Railroad Depot
Augusta Chronicle

Small-scale railroads big-time hobby
Galesburg Register Mail

‘Train lady’ opens miniature world to public
Daily Herald

A model of creativity
Greenfield Daily Reporter

Events 

Central WYO Model Railroad Association
1356 N. Center
Casper, WY
Time: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Date: July 2
Harry Buhler hosts “Maintaining Your Model Railroad” to introduce beginners to skills needed to build and maintain a model railroad. Tours at times other than normal operating hours are available for groups. Members will try to accommodate special requests.
Contact: 235-4950, 473-1121 or 247-1420

New releases from Hornby for July/August 2008

When Frank Hornby launched his famous Hornby Dublo range of models in 1938 he created a scale of model railways that has grown and developed over the last 70 years. The range initially contained just two locomotives, an 0-6-2 locomotive and the LNER Class A4 Sir Nigel Gresley. In celebration of 70 years of Hornby 00 scale models a special limited edition of the Sir Nigel Gresley locomotive in packaging reminiscent of the classic Hornby pack designs of days gone by has been created with each of the 2008 models produced being supplied with a special numbered limited edition certificate.

R2760 GWR ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Royal Sovereign Train Pack

Named after a famous racehorse of the mid 19th Century, the ‘Flying Dutchman’ service was first operated by the Great Western Railway in 1862 and ran in that year from Paddington to Didcot at an average speed of 55mph! This special limited edition train pack of 2000 pieces is representative of the ‘Flying Dutchman’ at the turn of the 19th Century when the chosen class of locomotive scheduled to pull the train was one of William Deans superb 7ft 8in 4-2-2 Singles. Each specially presented limited edition train pack includes a numbered certificate.
Limited Edition of 2000

R2686 BR 4-6-0 Class 5

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the end of steam hauled passenger services on British Railways. A specially prepared train was rostered on that fateful Sunday morning of the 11th August 1968 which ran from Liverpool to Carlisle and then back to Liverpool and was known as the ‘Fifteen Guinea Special’. Several locomotives were to be used during the journey with two coupled up to run double headed between Carlisle and Manchester on the return journey. These two locomotives – 44781 and 44871 – are the subject of two special limited edition models, each individually packed in a commemorative box with an accompanying numbered certificate.
Limited Edition of 1004 of each