Receiving Yard Compiled by Tony Cook
FMC 5327 boxcar from ExactRail
Product News HO Scale
Product News Upgrade for Athearn U50
HO — Originally delivered five years ago, Athearn’s HO- scale General Electric U50 diesel locomotive model will return for 2016 under the Genesis banner. Bought by Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, this 5,000-hp proto- type put a pair of U25Bs in one package riding on two sets of AAR Type-B trucks. Introduced in 1963, these big
blunt-nosed diesels
worked into the 1970s for both railroads. Athearn’s revised U50 will possess a Genesis-quality drive motor, plus operators will be able to select from a DCC-ready version ($299.98) or a release with factory-in- stalled SoundTraxx Tsunami sound and DCC ($399.98). Four Union Pacific road num- bers will include 32, 37, 43, and 50 and will carry “De- pendable
Transportation”
slogans on cab sides and a working safety beacon on the roof. Southern Pacific exam- ples replicate 9500-series re- numbering and will include a working Gyralight. February 2016 is the announced deliv- ery date for Athearn’s Gene- sis U50 release.
Athearn
1600 Forbes Way - Suite 120 Long Beach, CA 90810 877-422-9316
www.athearn.com 12 RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
HO — Featuring all-new tooling, ExactRail introduces an HO-scale FMC Corporation 5,327-cubic- foot boxcar model. This new box- car joins the manufacturer’s Evo- lution product line and sells for $39.95. Fully assembled, Exact- Rail’s 5327 reproduces a 12-foot plug door, 50-foot boxcar intro- duced in 1979 to North American railroading. Five road names are present in the initial production: East Camden & Highland; Min- nesota, Dakota & Western; New Orleans Public Belt Railroad;
and two versions for Québec Cen- tral. Designed, engineered, and tooled in the U.S., this new re- lease rides on ExactRail’s exclu- sive 100-ton ASF Ride Control truck sideframes with 36-inch metal wheels. A narrow-style draft box featuring shank wedg- es, striker casting, and full nut- and-bolt detail contains a Kadee No. 58 scale-head metal knuckle coupler. The boxcar has wire grab irons and separately applied door tracks and door bars on its insu- lated plug door.
ExactRail
251 West River Park Drive, Suite 300, Provo, UT 84604 866-945-1701;
www.exactrail.com
Return of Ye Olde Huff N Puff wood tank car kit
HO — A new production of Ye Olde Huff N Puff’s 29-foot wood tank car model is available. The craftsman kit presents scribed- wood underframe, wood dowel- ing tank, die-cast metal dome, wire railings, truss-rod under- body detail, and rivet bands for the tank. This $19.95 kit includes a scribed-wood tank wrapper and tank ends. The prototype is a late-1800s tank
car that is applicable to stan- dard gauge and narrow gauge use; thus, the basic kit is less trucks and couplers. For stan- dard gauge HO-scale modelers, Ye Olde Huff N Puff presents a $27.95 kit version with arch bar trucks. Bruce Ultch construct- ed the model illustrated; photo courtesy Ye Old Huff N Puff.
Ye Olde Huff N Puff P.O. Box 1103, Lewistown, PA 17044 717-248-8935
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