is both DCC and d.c. compatible so everybody can use this lighting kit. When power is removed from the track, the lights can stay on for up to two minutes because of the capacitor. I highly recommend these lighting kits for the passenger cars. Once again, Blackstone Models has put forth a product which is a must have for narrow gauge modelers. The combination of a superior model and first class technology are what makes Blackstone Models so successful. If they keep this up they will make nar- row gauge modelers out of all of us. If it could happen to me, it certainly could happen to you. The Chili Line three- pack of Jackson and Sharpe passenger cars (part number B350112) lists for $280.00 and the passenger coach ac- cessory lighting decoder (part number 810136) lists for $35.95.—SCOTT LUPIA
Eastman heater car: HO scale Mfd. by Northeastern Scale Lumber, 99 Cross St., Methuen, MA O1844:
www.northeasternscalelumber.com. From the first common carrier rail-
ways up to the present, the delivery of agricultural products and food stuffs has been one of the most important services provided by the railroads. As distances grew farther and transit times longer, it became increasingly
important that perishable products ar- rive in good condition. This led to the development of specialized equipment to handle these commodities. Most no- table among these was the refrigerated car of which we all are familiar. How- ever, the cold northern climates posed its own unique set of conditions which required the ability to protect produce and dairy shipments from freezing. Be- ginning in the 1860’s, heated freight cars were developed with mixed suc- cess to remedy the freezing issue. In
1880, William E. Eastman of
Boston, Massachusetts, whose concern with loses due to frost damage to the New England and Eastern Canadian potato crop while in transit led him to develop an economical four burner kerosene furnace that could maintain a temperature above freezing in a con- verted freight car. A thirty five gallon tank fueled the furnace for ten days. So successful was the Eastman car heater that within a decade of its introduction over 1,600 heater equipped cars were in service in the northeast. Eastman heater equipped cars would be used in service until the 1930’s when they be- came obsolete and were phased out by the railroads.
Over the years Northeastern Scale Lumber Co., in addition to their premi- um line of milled basswood, has offered
Building a layout
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