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Y OR INDUSTRY By: Charles H. Geletzke, Jr. and Wilbur E. Hague
plete rosters of equipment, Dispatcher’s Train Sheets and was compiled for both the serious historian and the modeler. The book contains a listing of all structures and bridges and for you modelers a list of every “on-line” industry ever served by the railroad. “The Little Nickel Plate,” produced most of its revenue hauling bituminous coal north from its Toledo connec- tions during the winter months and finished autos and auto parts south from the auto plants of southern Michigan. Today this road is part of the Canadian National system and continues hauling coal to south- eastern Michigan.
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This new volume covers the never-be- fore published history of the D&TSL from 1897 through its inclu- sion in the Grand Trunk Corp. in 1981, and on through 2011. This 264 page hard- bound with dust jacket contains 271 b&w and color photos, stories, anecdotes, drawings, complete track dia- grams, statistics, com-
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Boy locomotive. The fully assembled lo- comotives feature prototype specific details for both coal and oil burning en- gines, along with dual function Sound- Traxx Tsunami DCC decoder sound. The price is $499.98. Another large ar- ticulated locomotive available is the 4- 6-6-4 Challenger. It comes fully assem- bled, with dual function SoundTraxx Tsunami DCC decoder and prototype specific details. The Union Pacific units come as either an oil burner, oil burner with smoke lifters, oil burner as modern fan trip version or with oil burner and smoker lifters. Other road names are Rio Grande and Clinchfield. The price for these locomotives is $479.98 each. Kato U.S.A., 100 Remington Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60173; website
www.katousa.com, has released its N scale EMD SD90/43MAC in several popular road names. The large locomo- tive comes powered by a five-pole skew wound motor with dual brass fly-
wheels, directional headlight, Kato magnetic knuckle couplers and a DCC friendly mechanism. Road names in multiple numbers are Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific and Indiana Rail- road. The price per unit is $115.00. New paint schemes are available on the General Electric P42, Genesis en- gine. It comes equipped with body mounted Kato magnetic knuckle cou- plers, directional Golden White LED headlights and illuminated number boards and is DCC friendly. Units in multiple numbers are Amtrak Phase II, VIA Rail Canada, Amtrak Phase V and Amtrak 40th anniversary. Prices range between $100.00 and $120.00. Also released in N scale is a Virginia Railway Express four-unit set. It fea- tures new tooling and has an MP36PH-3C locomotive for power with modern bi-level Nippon-Sharyo design coaches. In addition to these items, ad- ditional coaches and cab coaches are scheduled to be released shortly. The
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