HO freight cars Amherst 2022: The freight cars listed here are featured at the Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
Bachmann Trains 50-foot express reefer
50-foot express reefer. Pre-production sample shown. Canadian Pacific, New York Central, Pacific Fruit Express, and Railway Express Agency. One road number per scheme. Separate, factory-applied running boards, ladders, hatches, and brake wheel; molded details; and wood panel texture. Mid-2022 delivery. Bachmann Trains, 215-533-1600, bachmanntrains.com
Eastern Seaboard Models Magor and Pacific Car & Foundry 40-foot insulated boxcars
Magor and Pacific Car & Foundry 40-foot XIH heated, insulated plug-door boxcars. Hand-painted pilot models shown. Boston & Maine (1950 Magor car) and New York, New Haven & Hartford (1953 Pacific Car & Foundry car). Four road numbers per road name. Both versions will be decorated in red, white, and blue “State of Maine” scheme. Injection-molded plastic body, etched-brass see-through running boards and brake platform, InterMountain Railway Co. American Steel Foundries A-3 50-ton solid-bearing trucks with low-profile metal wheelsets, body-mounted Kadee no. 148 whisker couplers, and Hi-Tech Details air hoses. Projected manufacturer’s suggested retail price, $84.50. Summer 2022. Eastern Seaboard Models Corp., esmc.com
ExactRail 48-foot depressed center flatcar
48-foot depressed-center flatcar. TTX (black and modern logo, four road numbers each), Erie Lackawanna (black, three numbers), Norfolk Southern (black, two numbers), Norfolk & Western (black, three numbers), and Penn Central (Deepwater Green, three numbers). Undecorated kit also available. Wire grab irons, General Steel Castings-style perforated deck, American Steel Foundries 100-ton Ride Control trucks, and Kadee no. 5 couplers. ExactRail, 866-945-1701, exactrail.com
Rock Island Hobby U.S. Army missile launch car
U.S. Army railcars. Missile launch car with missiles ($33.98), big gun car, exploding car, flatcar with tank load ($27.98), and tank buster “Q” car. $32.98 each unless noted. Cars feature plastic wheelsets and couplers. Rock Island Hobby, rockislandhobby.com
Spring Mills Depot DODX 68-foot flatcar
Department of Defense (DODX) 68-foot heavy-duty flatcars. Buffer car, Cascade Green, nuclear cask car, Olive Drab, and Urethane Green. Road-number-specific lettering and details to match builder, period, and paint scheme. Die-cast metal underframes, wire grab irons, metal wheels, and Kadee couplers. $64.95. Spring Mills Depot, 443-744-0938, smd.cc
Tangent Scale Models Greenville boxcar
Greenville 86-foot high-cube quad-plug-door boxcar. Chessie System with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks (1979+ repaint), Conrail (1976+ X60GR repaint with large herald and 1988+ X60R repaint), Grand Trunk Western (December 1969 delivery scheme, eight road numbers), Southern Ry. (1987+ NS-era BS-84 Claytor repaint), and Union Pacific with Southern Pacific reporting marks (2011+ “Building America” scheme). Four road numbers per scheme unless noted; undecorated kits also available in two versions. Body shells with overlapping side panels, end of car or center of car cushioning as appropriate, and Kadee scale couplers. $56.95. Tangent Scale Models, 828-412-3886, tangentscalemodels.com
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