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News and comment from the world of S
S Briefs
News and comment from the world of S
W
ith colder weather here, were be-
ginning to think of winter and the
arrival of Christmas and the holiday season.
The
S Gaugian
staff wishes each of you a
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
sin or your dealer for further details about
delivery and pricing arrangements.
In addition, the River Raisin troop
sleeper cars are now in stock in painted
and lettered brass.
Overland Models
, 3808 W. Kilgore
Ave., Muncie, IN 47304 is making avail-
able GE AC44CW and C60ACs in S
scale brass. The modern diesels will be
the beginning of a line of new brass by
this firm if interest warrants. The GE
diesels are used to power trains from
manifest freights to coal drags to
intermodal hotshots. Locomotives will
be highly detailed and feature crisp let-
tering, directional lighting and construc-
tion by Ajin Precision of Korea. Total
production is around 120 units, or 20
units per model. Prices range from
$1,400 to $1,475 and deposits are re-
quired very soon for these models.
A first regional convention called
Puget Sound 2004
will be held July 10-
14, 2004 in the Tacoma-Seattle, Wash-
ington area. The convention will take
place at the La Quinta Inn, 1425 E.
27th St., Tacoma, WA 98421, two
blocks away from the busy BNSF/UP/
Amtrak main line. The show is in con-
junction with the NMRA National Con-
vention in Seattle. Activities include an
afternoon ice breaker picnic scheduled
for July 10, National Train Show in
downtown Seattle, evening dinner cruise
on Puget Sound, a morning tour of
Coast Engine and Equipment Company
in Tacoma, a ride on the steam-pow-
ered Chehalis-Centralia Railroad, dis-
play layouts at the hotel, dealer sales and
more. Contact Gil Hulin at 3895 Colony
O a k s D r. , E u g e n e , O R 9 7 4 0 5 o r
ghulin@guardnet.com for details.
Timberline Scenery Co
., PO Box 84,
Morrison, CO 80465 offers a 20-cubic-inch
bag of Forest Floor ground cover for $3.19
or a 60-cubic-inch bulk bag for $8.49.
Trainstuff LLC
, 5929 Lakeview Rd.,
Larsen, WI 54947 sells railroad resin,
which is specially blended for model rail-
roads. It is solvent-free, virtually odorless
and comes in quart sizes for $29.95;
starter kit sets for resin and silicone mold
making are available for $50.
River Raisin Models
, 6160 Upper
Straits Blvd., West Bloomfield, MI 48324
will release the popular Burlington Zephyr
#9900 and the Flying Yankee in S scale
and S hi-rail DC versions. The Burlington
Zephyr was the first all-stainless steel
streamlined passenger train built by the
Budd Company in the mid-1930s. In
1935 the Boston & Maine and the Maine
Central took delivery of the Flying Yan-
kee with a three-car train. The trains could
travel at speeds up to 109 miles an hour.
Three versions of the shovelnoses
will be coming in summer of 2004. The
models will be built in Korea by Ajin Pre-
cision with all the correct details includ-
ing working diaphragms, interior detail,
nickel-plated bodies, directional headlights
and backup light on the engine unit, ceil-
ing lights in passenger cars and window
glass. Deposits are now being taken of
$300 for the units, which range in price
from $1,899 pre-production for the 3-
unit train to $2,399 for the 4-unit train
post-production price. Contact River Rai-
New product,
manufacturer
news
K-Line
, PO Box 2831, Chapel Hill, NC
27515 has released more S scale freight
cars including a C&O and Milwaukee Road
depressed center flat car with wheel loader
and road roller loads, a Pennsylvania illumi-
nated caboose lettered for Buckeye Re-
gion, SP, Reading and Milwaukee Road
cabooses, Union Pacific and Reading box
cars, and Northern Pacific and Pure Oil
triple-dome tank cars. All cars are $19.95.
Wm. K. Walthers
, PO Box 3039, Mil-
waukee, WI 53201 has released its new
1,056-page HO 2004 Scale Model Rail-
road Reference Book. The catalog con-
tains numerous listings for scenery, paints,
tools, detail parts, motors, lighting, power
supplies, adhesives, lubricants, structures
adaptable to S scale, and scratchbuilding
supplies. The catalog costs $22.98.
River Raisin Models is bringing out the Burlington Zephyr in S scale. 5
S Scale Loco & Supply
, PO Box 550,
Richlandtown, PA 18955 reports that the
Mogul steam locomotive kit they produced
has been sold out, and the next Mogul
production run will be in 2005. They still
have the American Models Pacific detail
kit available for $110, and light Mikado
and Pacific brass boilers for $25 each.
BTS
, PO Box 561, Seffner, FL 33583
offers a new Laurel Brook Station kit for
$15.95; Cabin Creek rural church for
$59.95; Willets Supply for $69.95;
single-stall switcher shed for $99.95; two-
stall enginehouse for $189.95; and the
McCabe Company office building for
$99.95.
Kenny Palmer of
Boy Oh Boy Indus-
tries
, 400 Main Street, Riverton, NJ
08077 offers an S gauge repair and ret-
rofit service for locomotives, freight and
passenger cars, and conversion to DC for
engines. Services include tune-ups/clean-
ups, motor rewinding, rebuilding smoke
units, re-stringing crane cars, cleanup of
action cars, installing lamps on passen-
ger cars, repairing couplers, installing Pull-
Mor tires, replacing mechanical reverse
units, and installing sound systems. Kenny
is one of our younger teenage S gaugers.
D
es Plaines Hobbies, 1468 Lee St.,
Des Plaines, Illinois 60018 has re-
leased ready to run 36-foot-long plas-
tic single-dome tank cars which are
made in China.
The cars are fully detailed, come in
many roadnames, and come with either
hi-rail or scale wheels. The paint and let-
tering on each is well-done and very crisp.
True scale versions of the typical
short tank cars of the 1930s through
the 1950s period have not been made
in ready-to-run form. Weve had many
kits, but nothing RTR until now.
Our samples included the United
States Army Transportation Corps.
tank car in green with yellow letter-
ing, and the bright silver Roma Wine
tank car with red lettering and black
shadow lettering.
S SCALE AMERICA 36-FOOT SINGLE DOME TANK CARS
The cars feature rivet detail on the top
spine of the tank, around the dome, on
the dome itself, and where the ends are
riveted to the tank body. The rivets alone
add a lot of interest to the car (the old AF
tank cars did not show rivet detail on the
top of the tank).
The cars feature a dome hatch, wire
handrails around the car, platform beneath
the dome, dome
grabirons, ladders
each side extend-
ing from the frame
to the platform,
vertical end brake-
wheel, end and
side identification
boards, frame nut-
bolt-washer detail,
side stirrup steps,
S Helper Service
, 77 Cliffwood Ave.,
Cliffwood, NJ 07721 will soon have 70-
ton ore cars available in numerous
roadnames. The cars are modeled after
the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range U-27
Lake Superior design of 1949 (car se-
ries 29500-30499) by the Pressed Steel
Car Co. The cars were still in service on
the DM&IR as of 2000, and many of the
cars were sold to other roads for use in
MofW service.
The cars are similar to thousands that
were built to move iron ore in Minnesota
and Ontario, Canada. The 24-foot-long
cars could accommodate the ore docks at
Two Harbors, Superior Ashland/Duluth,
Escanaba, Marquette and Thunder Bay.
The cars will feature opening hopper bay
doors, handgrabs of formed music wire,
Zamac center sill and bolster and diecast
metal sprung trucks. Roadnames will in-
clude DM&IR, B&LE, BN, CN, CP, GN,
Milwaukee Rd., SP and UP. Cars, retail-
ing at $39.95, will also be available un-
decorated and will be suitable for either
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tank bands, plastic frames with a molded
plastic AB brake system, a space for the
coupler pockets each end, non-sprung
trucks, and crisp painting and lettering.
The cars roll freely, and each is avail-
able in two roadnames. Price is $39.95.
These cars are a much-needed item
in S scale, and will help complete many
a modelers rolling stock roster.