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Heartland Hobby Wholesale has announced several exclusive runs of Rapido models - orders must be placed with a dealer who orders from Heartland.

 

E8A - Erie (two-tone green), Pennsy (late simplified), Rock Island (delivery "Rocket" scheme), Southern (black "Tuxedo"), NYC (experimental green), Wabash ("Bluebird")

 

E9A / E9A+B - Milwaukee Road

https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/d08f255d-bc1e-4f25-9ecb-b5edef25189e.pdf

 

AutoFlood III Coal Hoppers - FEPX, MBKX, LNTX, XCLX

https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/c857b314-c8b9-4132-944f-32889125c6bb.pdf

 

 

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Athearn - May 2022 - preorders due May 27th, eta June 2023

 

Genesis - ES44DC - CSX (YN3 / primer painted CSX logo on nose / "Boxcar" logo), NS (as delivered / primer), BNSF, NEW TOOLING VARIATION - CP (CP / Hapag-Lloyd special paint scheme)

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/01_GENHO_ES44_042922.pdf

 

Genesis - P40DC/P42DC - Amtrak (Ph III / Ph IV / Ph V / Operation Livesaver), VIA (teal green / Poppy / "Love the Way" in 2 different versions)

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/02_GENHO_P40-P42_042922.pdf

 

SW1000 - BNSF, Rio Grande, CB&Q, VIA, S&S Shortline Leasing

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/03_ATHHO_SW1000_042922.pdf

 

Bethgon Coalporters - NEWLY RE-TOOLED BODIES - BN, Conrail, UP, BNSF, CSX, Data only

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/04_ATHHO_Bethgon_042922.pdf

 

60' Bulkhead Flat Car - Texas Oklahoma & Eastern, Northwestern Oklahoma, SP, Montana Rail Link, Oregan Pacifc & Eastern, Spokane Portland & Seattle

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/05_ATHHO_60'_Bulkhead_042922.pdf

 

40' Flatcar with plane - Rio Grande, B&O, Navy, UP, Air Force, Marines

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/06_ATHHO_40'_Flat with Plane_042922.pdf

 

Bay Window Caboose - UP, CNW, The Rock, Susquehanna, NS, SP, NdeM

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042922/07_ATHHO_Bay_Window_Caboose_042922.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

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Tangent Scale Models - May 2022

 

new release of PS4750 Covered Hoppers

 

BN "Delivery Cascade Green 1-1980", ICG "Original 1979", KCS "Delivery Brown 12-1979", MKT "Original 12-1979", Rock "Delivery Blue 6-1978", CNW ex-Rock "Blue w/white CNW" v3, CNW ex-Rock "Blue w/black CNW" v4, CNW ex-Rock "Blue w/black CNW" v5, PVGX "Peavey Delivery 5-1980", SOO "ex-Peavey Bandit 2007+", RREX "Klemme Coop Iowa 4-1979"

 

https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/pullman-standard-ps-2cd-4750-covered-hopper/

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Rapido Trains - May 2022

 

NEW - Canadian Piggyback Flatcar - 2 different models - CN (prototype built by Vancouver Iron and Engineering) and CP (prototype built by Marine Industries.

PDF - https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/121780f0-4bb8-4015-b5c7-8456bd33ffc3.pdf

https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/freight-car/canadian-piggyback-flatcar.html

 

NEW - Canadian 26' Can-Car trailer - CP (CP Rail / Smith Transport / CP Express) , CN (CN Piggyback, CN Express), Reimer, Simpsons

NEW - Canadian 45' Trailmobile trailer - CP (CP Transport / Smith Transport / CP Rail), Canada Cartage, CN (CN SuperTherm, CN Piggyback), Wilson's Truck Lines, Caravan Leasing

PDF - https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/c58e567b-0ab3-4ebc-b3c6-fd08dabc0d00.pdf

https://rapidotrains.com/vehicle/can-car-trailmobile-trailers.html

 

(for those unfamiliar, Wilson's is big in the distribution of grocery items to retail - in particular to the Dominion/A&P/Metro stores.   Simpson's was a Canadian department store chain founded in 1872 and purchased by Hudson's Bay in 1978 and gradually shutdown as a name over the next 13 years.  Smith Transport was a large trucking company that CP bought in 1957).

 

NEW - PC&F B-70-69/71/75 - Cotton Belt, SP, Golden West

PDF - https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/67a99652-65a9-4c3a-9e67-b5d56d7a9bdf.pdf

https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/freight-car/pcf-b-70-69-boxcar.html

 

Heartland Hobby (distributor) exclusive - Turbotrain in Amtrak, 3-car demo unit

Order deadline June 15th

https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/582ec01a-65e8-4d98-bfc9-361897f2b9e2.pdf

 

 

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Athearn - June 2022 - preorders due June 24th - eta July 2023

 

Genesis - GE U50 - UP, SP / Legendary Livery versions in SF and GE Demo

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/01_GENHO_U50_052722.pdf

 

Genesis - GP15T - CSX, Conrail, MP, Rock Island Rail (modern short line) / Legendary Livery versions in SP and Rio Grande

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/02_GENHO_GP15_052722.pdf

 

Genesis - 13k Acid Tank Car - Grupo Mexico, GE Rail Services, Procor (Black / White), Union Tank Car (White / Black)

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/03_GENHO_13K Acid Tank_052722.pdf

 

Athearn - SD40 - SP, SF, KCS, WM, Colorado & Southern/Burlington, Pacific Harbor Line

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/04_ATHHO_SD40_052722.pdf

 

Athearn - 40ft Pfaudler Milk Car - C&NW, Pfaudler, Reid Ice Cream, Merkle, Alderney Dairy

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/05_ATHHO_Pfaudler_Milk_Car_052722.pdf

 

Athearn - Ford F-850 Boom Truck - SF, UP, MoW, CP, Rio Grande, C&O

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/06_ATHHO_F850_Boom_Truck_052722.pdf

 

Roundhouse - 40ft Pulpwood Car - Central of Georgia, SP, Bangor & Aroostook, NdeM, Southern, Apache Railway, C&O, Gulf Mobile & Ohio

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052722/07_RNDHO_40ft_Pulpwood_052722.pdf

 

 

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Tangent Scale Models - June 2022

 

B&O Class I-18 Cabooses - B&O "Original Blue 1965 Screens", B&O "Blue Simplified 1969+", Chessie "1973+ Repaint Version 2", Chessie "Gold Chessie Safety 1974+", Chessie "Red Chessie Safety 1979+, Chessie "1979+", New York Susquehanna and Western "Repaint 1986+", Chessie "Raceland Repaint 1980+", Chessie "Raceland Repaint 1981+", Chessie "1982+", Undecorated

https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/icc-bo-i-18-steel-bay-window-caboose/

 

 

 

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Rapido - June 2022

 

NEW - GMDD GP9RM mother and slug - well into tooling, first samples expected this summer

  • GP9RM - CN (stripes), CN (large noodle)
  • GP9RM mother and slug - CN (early), CN (late)

https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/38ece959-cb42-4300-8351-6d86b7960157.pdf

 

https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/diesel-locomotives/gp9rm.html

 

NEW - GE C30-7 - SF (early), BN (early), Conrail, CSX (YN2), NdeM (early), NW, NS, UP (early)

 

https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/b5d9fa38-ccde-4329-8cda-33e499d2f465.pdf

 

https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/diesel-locomotives/c30-7.html

 

There is also a launch video posted to the HO videos topic.

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Atlas - Summer 2022 - preorders due August 17th - eta 2Q2023

 

Master - MP-36 - Metra (Metra / Milwaukee Road Hiawatha / Rock Island Heritage), MBTA, Metrolink, West Coast Express

 

NEW TOOLING - Master - Nippon Sharyo Metra Passenger Cars

 

Master - Dash 8-40C - Cimarron Valley, CSX (YN2), P&W, Rock Island Rail, CN, Pan Am, NS, UP

 

Master - 50' Plug Door Boxcar - BN, CGW, Chicago Northwestern, TPBX, UP, Pennsy

 

Master - 50' Berwick Boxcar - Arkansas & Missouri, CN, Finger Lakes, ICG, Maine Central, North Louisiana & Gulf, ONR, Seaboard

 

Master - 20,700 Gallon Tank Car - Calumet Refining, CF Industries, Eastman Chemical, Mobay Chemicals, Ozone Waters, Standard Chlorine of Delaware, UP, Pemex

 

Master - NE-6 Caboose - Chicago West Pullman and Southern, Monongahela, Morristown and Erie, NH, Pittsburg and Shawmut, Nickel Plate Road, Susquehanna

 

Master - ACF Precision Design Boxcar - Conrail, UP, BNSF, CN, C&NW, MRL, Rock Island

 

https://download.atlasrr.com/0622PDF/Summer2022HONMSRPOnly.pdf

 

 

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Athearn July 2022 - preorders due July 29th, eta August 2023

 

NEW - Genesis - Amtrak California Cars

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/01_GENHO_M-K-California_062422.pdf

 

Genesis - Amtrak California II (Surfliner) cars

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/02_GENHO_Surfliner_062422.pdf

 

Genesis - ICC Caboose - UP, WP

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/03_GENHO_ICC_Caboose_062422.pdf

 

Genesis - EMD DDA40X & CA-10 Caboose Collectors Set - UP - this is a "Legendary Livery" of a proposed special paint scheme for the first unit that the UP board voted against putting on the real thing.

Genesis - EMD DDA40X

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/04_GENHO_DDA40X_062422.pdf

 

Genesis - PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper - Chessie, Grupo Cementos Mexicanos, CB&Q, Milwaukee, Cotton Belt, SP

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/05_GENHO_PS_2893_Crvd_Hopper_062422.pdf

 

GP40-2 - CP, CSX, BNSF, Amtrak, NS

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/06_ATHHO_GP40-2_062422.pdf

 

50' High Cube Plug Door boxcar - PC, SF, UP, Conrail, NS, BC Rail

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/07_ATHHO_50ft_High_Cube_Double_Plug_Door_Box_062422.pdf

 

40' Express Boxcar - UP, B&O, Pennsy, CP, Rio Grande, SP

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/08_ATHHO_40ft_Express_Box_062422.pdf

 

50' PS 5277 Boxcar - Detroit & Mackinac, Pearl River Valley, Pickens, Railbox, Lake Superior & Ishpeming, Chicago & Illinois Midland

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/09_ATHHO_PS_5277_062422.pdf

 

ACF 2970 Covered Hopper - CSX, BN, Corning Glass Works, ACF Leasing, MP, CB&Q

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/10_ATHHO_ACF_2970_Crvd_Hopper_062422.pdf

 

Roundhouse - 34' 2-bay coal hopper - SF, B&O, Nickel Plate, CB&Q, Virginian, C&O

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/062422/11_RNDHO_34ft_3-Bay_Hopper_062422.pdf

 

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Tangent Scale Models - July 2022 - available now

 

PS-2CD 4750 Covered Hoppers - ATSF "delivery gray 10-1979", IC "death star gray repaint 1997+", LN Family Lines "original 12-1980", SCL Family Lines "original 7-1980", SLSF "delivery gray 6-1977", SOO "original 1-1980", NAHX "Lapeyrouse 6-78", PLCX "gray lease 3-1979"

 

https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/pullman-standard-ps-2cd-4750-covered-hopper/

 

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Rapido Trains - July 2022

 

NEW - NSC 73' Centerbeam (early version and mid-version) - BC Rail, BNSF, CN, CP, Mississippi Delta, Northwestern Oklahoma, Trailer Train

 

PDF - https://files.constantcontact.com/b02e8bb6001/2ed56c98-f292-41cd-950a-ef44d7fde60a.pdf

Website - https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/freight-car/nsc-centerbeam-flatcar.html

 

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On 07/07/2022 at 12:12, mdvle said:

Rapido Trains - July 2022

 

NEW - NSC 73' Centerbeam (early version and mid-version) - BC Rail, BNSF, CN, CP, Mississippi Delta, Northwestern Oklahoma, Trailer Train


NOKL - nice! Surprisingly common around Vancouver.

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