HO scale freight cars
• Bay-window caboose. Chicago & North Western (yellow and green with “Since 1848 Pulling Together” slogan), National Railways of Mexico (yellow and black), Norfolk Southern (red and silver), Rock Island (blue and white), Southern Pacific (brown and orange with “TrailerFlatcar Service” slogan), Susquehanna (yellow and black), and Union Pacific (Armour Yellow with safety slogan). Two road numbers per scheme. Separate, factory-installed smokejack and brake wheel; body-mounted McHenry scale couplers; and caboose trucks. $36.99. June 2023. Athearn series. Athearn Trains, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
• Assorted freight car kits. Illinois Central Gulf Pullman-Standard 4,750-cubic-foot capacity three-bay covered hoppers (orange with small herald and large reporting marks; orange with large reporting marks only; and orange with “Illinois Central Gulf” lettering, small reporting marks and road number, and small herald), single car, $21.98; three-pack, $64.98. Boston & Albany 41-foot steel gondola (Boxcar Red with “Boston & Albany” lettering), single car, $19.98; three-pack, $58.98. Chessie System American Car & Foundry twobay Center Flow covered hopper with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks (1980s solid yellow repaint), $20.98. Milwaukee Road 40-foot single-sheathed boxcar with Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific herald (Boxcar Red with white graphics), $19.98. Injection-molded plastic kits with solid-or roller-bearing trucks as appropriate, plastic wheelsets, and Accumate couplers with modeler-installed trip pins. Accurail, 630-3651173, accurail.com
• Skeleton logging truck. Single truck without logs, $60. Single truck with three or six logs, $74.99 each. Late fall 2022. KR Models Canada, 780-863-2330, krmodels.ca
• Pacific Car & Foundry boxcar. St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt, with DFL/Youngstown, Superior, and Youngstown doors), Canadian National (CNA reporting marks with Superior doors), Golden West Service (GVSR
reporting marks with Youngstown doors), and Southern Pacific (brown with Superior and Youngstown doors and Golden West Service patchout with Superior doors). Also available painted brown but unlettered with Superior and Youngstown doors. Separate, factory-applied metal grab irons, uncoupling levers, and door tracks; scale-sized draft gear with detailed Hydra-Cushion underframe; full underbody brake rigging; and newly tooled 70-ton trucks with turned metal 33" wheels. Release date to be announced. Single car, $54.95; six-pack, $329.70. Rapido Trains Inc., 905-4743314, rapidotrains.com