April 2010

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road Number CB&Q 61417 This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted gold with red, black and white Burlington Route logo. Lettering is in black and it runs on black Bettendorf trucks. In 1966, the CB&Q was awarded the Railway Progress Institute’s “Golden Freight Car Award” for promotion of railroad freight traffic. At the time, the Q’s Havelock, Nebraska shop was rebuilding class XM-32 boxcars, so to commemorate the award, the railroad painted one day’s output (eight cars) in this scheme.

#024 00 250...$16.70

Koppers Company Road Numbers KPCX 2105

Southern Pacific® Road Numbers SP 151264 / 151273 These 40’ drop bottom gondolas are painted brown and display the black & white ‘Southern Pacific Lines’ herald and white ‘SP’ in Roman style lettering. Stencil lettering is white and it runs on brown Bettendorf trucks. The Bethlehem Steel Company built this group of class G-50-22 drop bottom gondolas in the fall of 1948 and early 1949. They were delivered new to Southern Pacific and numbered into series #151000-152649. The gondolas have the “improved” dreadnaught ends and Miner brakewheel.

WITH SCRAP WOOD LOADS

SP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.

#083 00 081...$21.40 #083 00 082...$21.40

Pennsylvania Railroad Road Number PRR 85940

This black 39’ single dome tank car carries the “KOPPERS” red, black & white logo and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. Lettering is in white, with orange reporting marks and road number. It was used by Koppers to haul coal tar and comes from series 21002129. Built during the 40s it is non-pressurized, has a capacity weight of 80,000 lbs and carries a gallon capacity of 8,000.

This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted freight car red with white logo and lettering and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. It was built in May 1951 by Pressed Car Steel, serviced in September 1967, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. It was built as part of a 1000-car series delivered to the Pennsylvania in 1950-1951; when serviced in 1967 it received the plain-keystone paint scheme. This car was used for grain service and was fitted with paper or wooden grain door inserts.

WITH PAPER GRAIN DOOR

#024 00 180...$19.90

#065 00 670...$21.40

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Billboard Car #8 This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ® poster. The decorating is based on one of the first posters designed to announce the historic union of the Ringling Brothers Circus with that of Barnum & Bailey, which took place in 1919. It embodies three main elements of the circus: beautiful performers, entertaining clowns, and magnificent animals.

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#047 00 408...$25.95

Canadian Pacific Road Number CP 285611 This plug door box car with tall ladders and no roof walk is painted aluminum with red script writing and logo. It has black lettering and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. This car was among 15 built for Canadian Pacific as mechanical refrigerator cars starting in 1963. These cars could be seen behind the CP’s Mandarin Orange Express. The red lettering was introduced on freight cars in the early 1960s and later replaced by CP Rail lettering

#074 00 040...$19.30

Accepting Orders for April Releases Beginning March 31st • All Prices U.S. Dollars

Chester A. Arthur Presidential Car Road Number 1881-1885

Great Northern Road Number Great Northern 56421

This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #20 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of our 21st president, Chester A. Arthur. The car comes with a commemorative pin replicated from this era. As Vice President, Arthur took office after James Garfield was assassinated. A champion of civil service reform, Arthur succeeded in the passing of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. This was his primary achievement as President.

This 40’ despatch stock car is painted GN ‘Big Sky Blue’ and large white ‘Great Northern’ letters with white stenciling and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. 145 single deck cars were originally built as 40’steel/wood sheathed box cars between 1937 and 1942. Built in March 1942 and rebuilt as a single deck stock car 56421 was one of the few stock cars serviced and repainted Big Sky Blue during July 1969.

Oath of Office Trivia Contest Question: Which President was orphaned at the age of nine, worked in real estate as a young man with his uncle in Oregon, never attended high school but attended Stanford University? *All answers must be submitted by email to [email protected] by the 15th to be eligible. #074 00 120…$23.95

#035 00 170...$13.70

East Broad Top Road Number 161

Victor Gold Mining Co. Road Number: V.G.M.Co. 350

This 30’ box car with single door is painted freight car red with white shield logo with “East Broad Top” lettering and runs on brown Barber Coleman Arch Bar trucks. This car was a true transition car, being the experimental evolution from all wood to all steel construction. This particular car is a wooden structure with a steel underframe, previously a truss rod underframe. The letters ‘ORB’ located near the capacity weight stand for Orbisonia, PA. Their shops were also located there. The East Broad Top Herald displayed on this car was introduced in the 1940s.

This 30’ gondola is painted yellow with ‘The Gold Belt Line’ logo on black background on its side and runs on black Arch Bar trucks. Commonly called “coal cars” these cars were actually used for hauling ore, scrap iron, lumber and ballast as well. The city of Victor is in the heart of Colorado’s gold country, near the largest gold mines in the Cripple Creek mining district. Though most of the old mines are abandoned, modern mines still operate.

#800 00 070...$16.80

#860 00 070...$42.45

N & Z Ringling Bros.™ Sleeper Car Runner Packs NOW SHIPPING!

N Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Sleepers Road Numbers: 40003, 40007, 40010

#993 00 038...$84.95

Z Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Sleepers Pre-orders were taken for this item in October 2009

Road Numbers: 40003, 40007, 40010

#994 00 016...$84.95

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YOUR SOURCE FOR Z Nebraska State Car Road Number NE 1867

Boston & Maine Road Numbers 1715 / 1718

This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #22 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Western Meadowlark and Goldenrod flower, Nebraska’s official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Nebraska is in the background. The road number 1867 represents the year the ‘Cornhusker State’ was admitted into the union.

These GP-9 powered locomotives are painted Boston & Maine blue with large, white ”Boston and Maine” lettering on side and white road number on cab side. Built in 1957, for the Boston & Maine this wore several paint schemes before receiving this one, without the ‘BM’ nose print, in the early 1980s.

#982 01 201...$175.95 #982 01 202...$175.95

#502 00 522…$22.95

Sunoco Road Numbers UTLX 53164 / 53166 These black 39’ single dome tank cars have the bright, multi-colored Sunoco logos and white stenciling and run on black Bettendorf trucks. They were built in 1956 and leased to the Sun Oil Company to haul naphthalene. Sunoco began as The Peoples Natural Gas Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. On March 17, 1890, it then became The Sun Oil Company of Ohio and was producing, transporting and storing oil as well as refining, shipping and marketing petroleum products.

Delaware & Hudson Road Numbers D&H 8006 / 8008 These 40’ bulkhead flat cars are painted red and have yellow ‘Delaware & Hudson’ letters and yellow stenciling. Built in 1956 by C&O, they run on black Roller Bearing trucks. Some of the cars from this series were painted in this red and yellow scheme in 1976. This 47’ 11” inside length car was used primarily to haul pulpwood.

WITH BOILER & LARGE PIPE LOAD

#526 00 101...$20.95 #526 00 102...$20.95

#530 00 291...$24.20 #530 00 292...$24.20

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Billboard Car #8 This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ® poster. The decorating is based on one of the first posters designed to announce the historic union of the Ringling Brothers Circus with that of Barnum & Bailey, which took place in 1919. It embodies three main elements of the circus: beautiful performers, entertaining clowns, and magnificent animals.

©FELD ENTERTAINMENT www.Ringling.com

#515 00 608…$29.95

Burlington Northern Road Number BN 10280 This caboose is painted BN green with yellow ends and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. In 1990 it wore this paint scheme with white lettering on the sides and cupola. Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of a March 2, 1970, merger comprising the Great Northern Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

#535 00 290...$29.20

N Military Mess Hall Kit

Z Barn Kit

NOW AVAILABLE!

#499 90 909…$29.95 *Kits come unassembled and undecorated

N Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Train Set This set consists of a sleeper car, stock car, power generator car, converted autorack, container car and flat car with three wagons. The cars and wagons sport the red vintage The Greatest Show On Earth™ globes, which identifies these cars as part of the ‘Red Unit’ train.

NOW AVAILABLE!

*Footprint is 5.5” x 5.5” *Kits come undecorated and unassembled.

#799 90 928… $39.95

N & Z Loads

NEW N 60’ Bulkhead Pipe Load #499 43 958 (2-pack)...$8.95

NEW Z 50’ Covered Mechanical Load #799 43 927 (2-pack)...$8.95

SD40-2 Train Sets New Z sets featuring SD40-2 locomotives! Burlington Northern...............#994 03 580  ........... $299.95 Kansas City Southern..............#994 03 590  ........... $289.95 Canadian Pacific.....................#994 03 600  ........... $289.95 CPRail.....................................#994 03 610  ........... $289.95 Norfolk Southern....................#994 03 620  ........... $289.95 Conrail....................................#994 03 630  ........... $279.95 Union Pacific®........................#994 03 640  ........... $299.95

Shipping Mid-Month #993 01 140… $229.95 ©FELD ENTERTAINMENT www.Ringling.com

All sets include four cars, a caboose and a loop of Micro-Track® UP® is a registered trademarks of the Union Pacific Railroad.

2010 halloween set Accepting Pre-Orders Through April 30th

Spooky ghosts, wolves, bats and witches… this train screams down the rail with its colorful and continuous Halloween scene. This set is decorated in dark midnight blue and features a FT-A locomotive and 3 modified RPO Heavyweight cars. Order yours today, they’ll be here just in time for Halloween!

Runs on Micro-Seasons® Table-Top ‘N Track with Haunted Hamlet Town Pieces.

New N & Z Runner Packs!

COMING SEPTEMBER 2010

#993 21 110…$189.95

COMING OCTOBER 2010!

Accepting Pre-Orders through April 30th

New York Central w/ Crushed Metal Load

CP Rail

#993 00 044...$64.95

#994 00 022…$69.95

Road Numbers: 715110, 715111, 715165, 715167

Road Numbers: 166049, 166066, 166191, 166192

Rolling Stock Review

30’ Composite Frame Reefer Colorado & Southern • Rd# 1101 Item# 850 00 010…$39.45

30’ Flat Car DRGW • Rd# 6000 / 6019 Item# 855 00 031…$32.90 Item# 855 00 032…$32.90

30’ Composite Frame Reefer Colorado & Southern • Rd# 1112 Item# 850 00 050…$38.85

30’ Flat Car NCNGRR w/ Load • Rd# 255 Item# 855 00 040…$35.30

30’ Composite Frame Reefer Colorado & Southern • Rd# 1118 Item# 850 00 060…$38.85

30’ Composite Frame Reefer Colorado & Southern • Rd# 511 Item# 850 00 070…$42.45

30’ Flat Car Rio Grande Southern w/ Load • Rd# 7455 Item# 855 00 050…$35.30

30’ Gondola White Pass & Yukon • Rd# 671 Item# 860 00 050…$ 39.95

30’ Gondola Colorado & Southern w/ Load • Rd# 4527 Item# 860 00 060…$41.60

30’ Gondola Weathered Florence & Cripple Creek w/ Load • Rd# 399 Item# 860 44 030…$39.95

30’ Flat Car Sumpter Valley w/ Load • Rd# 145 Item# 855 00 060…$35.30

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Brooklyn Locomotive Works – U.S. Marine Corps 40’ Double Door Box Cars BLW is offering four 40’ Double Door Military Series Boxcars. The US Army set, the first in the series, is already sold out. This is our second offering. Please watch for our Navy and Air Force cars coming in the months ahead. Please visit our web page, www.buynscale.com for a complete listing of special run BLW Exclusive Micro-Trains cars. Make checks payable to: Brooklyn Locomotive Works, 168 Pinebrook Road, Manalapan, NJ 07726-8451 BLW 2000-33 U.S. Marine Corps 40’ Box Car 4 Pack Set …$59.95 BLW-2000-33S Single Box Car (car taken from the set)…$21.49 Shipping: $8.50…USA only.

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Previously Released Rolling Stock SOON-TO-BE-OUT N Scale 056 00 180.....................................Reading w/ load 056 00 410 . ........................................DLW w/ load 073 00 112......................................Northern Pacific 074 00 111.................Presidential Series—Wilson 074 00 112...............Presidential Series—Truman 074 00 119...............Presidential Series—Obama 083 00 071........................................Illinois Central 083 00 072........................................Illinois Central 102 00 090...........................................Penn Central 130 00 020.................................................... Conrail 140 00 030................Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Z Scale 500 00 590................................Canadian National 501 00 132.......................................Great Northern

502 00 261.......................................... Pennsylvania 502 00 511...............................State Car—Nevada 502 00 512...................State Car—South Carolina 503 00 041............................................ Rock Island 522 00 162................Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 550 00 010....................................... Union Pacific® OUT OF STOCK N Scale 027 00 310.....................................Canadian Pacific 046 00 390................................Canadian National 054 44 180.............. Weathered—Great Northern 072 44 220...................Weathered—Trailer Train 073 00 111......................................Northern Pacific 074 00 110....................Presidential Series—Tyler 074 00 120.................................................... BC Rail 076 00 100...........Denver & Rio Grande Western®

099 00 090............................. Burlington Northern Z Scale 502 00 510........................... State Car—Wisconsin 503 00 032...................................Missouri Pacific® 505 00 232..................Chicago & North Western® 506 00 231...................................Western Pacific® 522 00 171..........................................................Erie 531 44 080.............. Weathered—Union Pacific® 981 01 030.....................................Canadian Pacific 981 01 131.................................Illinois Central Gulf 981 01 132.................................Illinois Central Gulf MKT®, SLSW/Cotton Belt®, D&RGW ®, UP®, C&NW ®, MP ® , WP ®, SN ® and ART® are registered trademarks of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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