News & Products for the week of September 6, 2007

HO scale structures
Cash Mine. Laser-cut wood kit with tab-and-slot construction. Includes doors, trim, ladders, running boards, floors, roofing, structural frames, Tichy windows, and Blair Line signs. Based on the Silver King Ore House in Park City, Utah. Measures 7-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 10-1/4″. $129.95. Blair Line

HO scale details and accessories
Cover plates for locations where locomotive headlights were removed. Fourteen styles. HO scale. $5.50. BLMA Models

Modern cantilever signal bridge. Four operating signal heads, 12 micro light-emitting diodes, and etched-metal components. HO scale. $89.95. Ready-to-use. BLMA Models

Komatsu PC400LC-7 excavators. With LaBounty MSD 2000R shear ($699), with LaBounty UP-45 universal processor ($715). Brass models with rotating implements and functional jaws. Forward rubber hoses will be armored. No bucket included. Only 50 of each model will be produced. November 2007. Ready-to-use. Classic Mint Collectibles

Komatsu WA500-6 wheel loader with Rockland straight edge gravel bucket. All-brass construction, functional lift and grapple movements, detailed cab interior, and rubber tires. Only 150 models will be produced. Price to be announced. February 2008. Ready-to-use. Classic Mint Collectibles

Komatsu WA500-6 wheel loader with Rockland hard quarry bucket. All-brass construction, functional lift and grapple movements, detailed interior, and rubber tires. Only 50 models will be produced. Price to be announced. February 2008. Ready-to-use. Classic Mint Collectibles

Komatsu WA500-6 wheel loader with Rockland log/pipe grapple. All-brass construction, functional lift and grapple movements, detailed cab interior, and rubber tires. Only 50 models will be produced. Price to be announced. February 2008. Ready-to-use. Classic Mint Collectibles

N scale freight cars
MRR-NP1207_23
Factory-weathered boxcars. Hutchinson Northern; Milwaukee Road; Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern; and Raritan River. Screw-mounted trucks, Accumate magnetic knuckle couplers, and photoetched stirrup steps. $17.98 each. Ready-to-run. Athearn Trains

N scale structures
Radtke’s filling station. Cast-urethane kit with laser-cut windows and doors, gas pumps, soda machine, oil rack, and signs. Based on prototype in Zachow, Wis. $28.95. Depots by John

N scale details and accessories
Remote-control locomotive antenna stands. Four styles. Etched .006″ brass. Includes drill template. $6.75. BLMA Models

Concrete automobile stops. Gray injection-molded plastic details. Twenty-four pack $5.95. Ready-to-use. BLMA Models

Assorted vehicles. Die-cast metal vehicles, including Datsuns and Nissans. Various colors. Three-pack $8, box of 12 sets $90. Car Collection from Tomytec, available from Mokei Imports

Z scale details and accessories
Concrete K-rail barriers. Injection-molded plastic. Twelve-pack $5.59. Ready-to-use. BLMA Models

Adhesives
Precision glue pen. Pinpoint applicator with Gorilla Glue’s Quick Cure Dries White formula, which sets in 30 to 60 minutes. For use on wood, stone, metal, ceramics, glass, and foam. Waterproof and temperature resistant. .75 fluid ounces. The Gorilla Glue Company

Videos/DVD
Fallen Flags Great Model Railroads Remembered. Featuring Chuck Hitchcock’s Santa Fe Argentine Division, John Armstrong’s Canadaigua Southern, David Barrow’s Cat Mountain & Santa Fe, Allen McClelland’s Virginian & Ohio, Tony Koester’s Allegheny Midland, Gary Hoover’s Missouri, Kansas & Quincy, Bill Henderson’s Coal Belt, and Bob Hayden’s Carrabasset & Dead River. DVD $45 plus $6 shipping. Allen Keller Productions

Electronic media
Ship It! version 7. Switchlist generating software program allows last pass random generation, shipper/consignee diagnostics, and capability to measure length of sidings in feet or other units rather than number of cars. Download $99.95. Shipped package with printed manual $124.95. Albion Software

Interactive screensaver. Displays model railroad track plans with running trains. Keyboard commands can be used to operate the trains. Download with 10 track plans from 101 Track Plans for Model Railroaders by Linn H. Westcott, $19.95; TrainPlayer Deluxe (with TrainPlayer, Screen Saver, and all 101 track plans), $59.95; and TrackLayer Deluxe (with all of TrainPlayer Deluxe plus tools for building tracks and layouts), $79.95. For Windows (NT, 2000, XP, Vista) only. TrainPlayer

Manufacturers featured in this week’s news and products
Albion Software, 39 Stanley Dr., Glastonbury, CT 06033; www.albionsoftware.com

Allen Keller Productions, 7410 Lebanon Church Rd., Talbott TN 37877; www.allenkeller.com

Athearn Trains, 1550 Glenn Curtiss St., Carson CA 90746; www.athearn.com

Blair Line, P.O. Box 1136, Carthage, MO 64836; www.blairline.com

BLMA Models, 16623 Pear Blossom Ct., Whittier, CA 90603; www.blmamodels.com

Classic Mint Collectibles, 2808 Cibola Dr., Irving, TX 75076; www.classicmint.com

Depots by John, P.O. Box 210674, Milwaukee, WI 53221; www.depotsbyjohn.com

Mokei Imports, 6590 Kingsbury, St. Louis, MO 63130

The Gorilla Glue Company; www.gorillaglue.com

TrainPlayer, 4200 E. Arcadian Dr., Castro Valley, CA 94546; www.trainplayer.com