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Miniatronics’ ELECTRAK CLEAN Now available for all scales including 3 rail!


Awesome Cleaning Power!


Don’t let the grime or dirt slow down your trains! Using electrostatic impulses, Miniatronics’ Electrak Clean 4 is the most effective and easiest way to keep your tracks clean! Plus, it will not damage the tracks (it just cleans them!).


Simply install a Miniatronics Electrak Clean 4 unit in a boxcar, passenger car, caboose or any style car you have available. Best part you do not need chemicals of any kind. PLEASE NOTE ALL METAL WHEELS REQUIRED


PEC4-1 One unit/$89.95 State of the art electronics. All units will work with DC or DCC Miniatronics “electronics for the hobbyist”


561-K Acorn Street Deer Park, NY 11729


State of the art electronics. All units will work with DC or DCC


Available at authorized Miniatronics Hobby Stores or order direct. NYS residents add appropriate sales tax. Shipping & Packaging fee: Contiguous U.S. $10.00, Foreign $18.00 - US Funds.


1-800-942-9439 • 631-242-6464 www.miniatronics.com Fax: 631-242-7796 • e-mail: miniatronics@miniatronics.com


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schemes are “What do We do? We work for you.”, early, “Safety Aware, Because We Care”, late, “Don’t Get Carried Away, Think Safety”, Union Pacific BCR, “America We’re Pulling for You” and P&LE. These cars sell for $49.95. Another caboose model is the Southern Pacific C-40-4 bay window caboose. It comes with molded details, new swing motion roller bearign trucks, interior de- tails, wire grab irons, Kadee couplers, etched metal roof walk, steps and end platforms. Various schemes are SP 1400-1499 as delivered, SP 1500-1599 as delivered, SP with end mounted markers and SP rebuilt ca. 1973-75. These cars retail for $49.95. Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains, 375


CARSTENS RAILROAD BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON-LINE AT www.carstensbookstore.com


Bean Hill Rd., Belmont, NH 03220; www.besttrains.com , has released an- other HO structure kit, the Weeks Mills Water Tower. It is based on a prototype in Weeks Mills, Maine. Fea- tures are laser-cut wood for easy as- sembly, peel and stick roofing shingles, laser engraved shingles for the siding, cast foundation and step by step in- structions. The price for the Weeks Mills Water Tower is $64.95. Red Caboose, P.O. Box 220, La Salle,


MODELS BY JIM SIX from the people who lived it... Get great prototype info


Are you a fan of the New York Central?Want to learn more about railroad- ing? Join us for a great weekend of historic presentations, layout tours, and excursions. Also don’t miss our great train show and dinner banquet. Visit www.nycshs.org OR email conraildisp@hotmail.com for details! All aboard!


2012 NYCSHS ANNUAL MEETING MAY 4-6 • ELKHART, INDIANA


NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. DEPT W • P.O. BOX 130 • GATES MILLS, OH 44040-0130


CO 80645, and distributed by Inter- Mountain Railway Co., P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502; on the web at www.intermountain-railway.com, has released a line of Type 103W, 10,000 gallon, welded tank cars. They come equipped with 33-inch metal wheelsets and Kadee couplers. Road names in multiple numbers are Texaco, Sunoco, Flying “A”, Richfield, DODX, SHPX FMC and Tidewater Flying A. The cost per car is $34.95. Sidetrack Laser Co., P.O. Box 447, Newberg, OR 97132; on the web at www.sidetracklaser.com, is now offer- ing the Arbuckle Depot kit in HO scale. Based on a prototype found on the Cen- tral Pacific, this structure didn’t follow the stardard company designs. Fea- tures are laser-cut walls, dock, win- dow, doors, and details. Also in the kit is a semaphore train order signal, fire hose reel and Grandt Line chimney.


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