News & Products for the week of January 27th 2025

News & Products for the week of January 27th 2025

Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. The following are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of January 27th, 2025.

HO scale rolling stock

InterMountain Gunderson boxcars

Price: $44.95

Manufacturer: InterMountain Railway Company, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, Colorado, 80502, 800-472-2530, intermountain@intermountain-railway.com, intermountain-railway.com

Gunderson boxcars features:

• Modern ends
• Multiple road numbers available
• Metal wheelsets
• Operating knuckle couplers
  

Release date: To be announced

Road names: Apache Railway; Burlington Northern Santa Fe; Canadian American; Canadian National; GATX Leasing; Minnesota, Dakota & Eastern; and Union Pacific.

Rapido National Steel Car 3294 mechanical reefer

Price: $74.95

Manufacturer: Rapido Trains Inc., 500 Alden Road, Unit 21, Markham, Ontario L3R 5H5 Canada; 905-474-3314; rapidotrains.com

National Steel Car 3294 mechanical reefer features:

• Separate, factory-installed grab irons
• Wire stirrup steps
• Separate door posts, door latches, and coupler cut levers
• Detailed underbody includes piping and mechanical equipment

Release date: Available now

Road names: Canadian Pacific

WalthersMainline Pacific Car & Foundry 50-foot insulated boxcar

Price: $34.98

Manufacturer: Wm. K. Walthers Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218; 414-527-0770; walthers.com

Pacific Car & Foundry 50-foot insulated boxcar features:

• Detailed brake gear
• Late improved Dreadnaught ends
• Simulated Hydra-Cushion cylinder detail and extended draft gear
• Stanray diagonal panel roof

Release date: Spring 2025

Road names: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Burlington Northern; Chesapeake & Ohio; Mountain Pine Lumber Co.; Soo Line; St. Louis San Francisco; and Union Pacific.

HO scale passenger equipment

Athearn Pullman 60-foot common standard baggage car

Price: Single car, $89.99; two-pack, $149.99

Manufacturer: Athearn Trains, 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, IL 61822; 800-338-4639; athearn.com

Pullman 60-foot common standard baggage car features:

• Arched overlapping roof panels with simulated rivets
• Pintsch gas vents and piping
• Stove smokestack
• Formed wire grabs and ladder rests
• Also available in unlettered and yellow maintenance of way schemes

Release date: August 2026

Road names: Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Western Pacific.

HO scale structures

WalthersCornerstone corn syrup unloading facility

Price: $64.98

Manufacturer: Wm. K. Walthers Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218; 414-527-0770; walthers.com

Corn syrup unloading facility features:

• Structures include transfer garage, sour large storage tanks, mobile boiler house, and shipping container-style mobile office
• Molded in ivory, light gray, yellow, tan and gray plastic

Release date: Winter 2025

N scale locomotives

Athearn Genesis 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive

Price: Direct-current locomotive, $489.99; with DCC and sound, $589.99

Manufacturer: Athearn Trains, 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, IL 61822; 800-338-4639; athearn.com

4-8-8-4 Big Boy features:

• Detailed boiler backhead with printed gauges
• See-through cab windows
• Operating eccentric cranks on both sides
• Individually-applied detail parts, including piping, valves, and generators
• Available in Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, NdeM, and Southern Ry. fantasy schemes

Release date: August 2026

Road names: Union Pacific

News & Products is a regular feature of Trains.com for model railroad operators and builders to get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more. Model railroad product news may include HO, N, O, S, and Z scales. Product release dates and prices will vary according to each manufacturer. If you are a manufacturer and have new product releases, please e-mail Senior Editor Cody Grivno at cody.grivno@firecrown.com and Associate Editor Bryson Sleppy at bryson.sleppy@firecrown.com for more information.