From now through the end of the month we are having a sale on all decals and Pressed Steel Tank Cars. For the decals, enter coupon code “DECALS” at checkout to receive 20% off your decal purchase. The Pressed Steel tank cars are “pre-discounted” so all you need to do is put them in your shopping cart.

• Pressed Steel NATX tank car
• Pressed Steel A. E. Staley tank car
• Pressed Rohm & Haas tank car

Lastly, we have added some DT&I gon part and decal sets. Click here for details

The next volume of the Focus on Freight Cars series is being printed. Ordering information, including the pre-publication discount may be found via this link.

There are five new decal sets and some restocks of kits:

• D174 – Milwaukee Road 40′ Rib-side Automobile Cars
• D186 – Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis FM7/FM8/FM9 Flat Cars
• D187 – New York Central Lot 723-G 70-ton Emergency Gondola
• D188 – Pennsylvania F30A Flat Cars
• D189 – Pennsylvania X37/X37A/X37B Box & Automobile Cars

Restocks/new kits:

• K106 – Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q/FW&D/C&S) XM-25/26 Single Sheathed Box Cars – new and revised!
• K108 – Soo Line ‘Sawtooth’ Single Sheathed Box Cars
• K110.1 – Ann Arbor 41000-series Single Sheathed Automobile Cars
• K110.2 – Ann Arbor 74000-series Single Sheathed Box Cars
• K121.1 – Erie 70000-series Rebuilt Box Car
• K121.2 – West India Fruit (ex-Erie 70000-series) Rebuilt Box Car

Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual, Volume Three: Refrigerator Cars. Click on the link for information about the discounted pre-order price.

Focus on Freight Cars, Volume Three: Refrigerator Cars and Volume Four: Steel Box Cars are being re-printed. Click on the links for information about discounted pre-order pricing.

We have eleven new decal sets. Many of these will be featured on cars modeled in the forthcoming Prototype Railroad Modeling, Volume Four. Complete list of decals

• D175 – Pennsylvania FM Flat Cars and DD1-A Containers
• D176 – Baltimore & Ohio P-11 Flat Cars
• D177 – New York Central System (NYC, P&LE) 50′ Box Cars built 1939-1946
• D178 – Pennsylvania X29B Rebuilt Box Car
• D179 – Pennsylvania X26C Rebuilt Box Car
• D180 – Pennsylvania G22 Gondolas and HB1/HB1A Containers
• D181 – Wabash Panel-side Hopper
• D182 – Pacific Fruit Express R-40-14 Refrigerator Cars
• D183 – Richfield AC&F 10,000 Gallon Type 25 Insulated Tank Car
• D184 – West India Fruit (ex-Erie) Rebuilt Box Car
• D185 – Rohm & Haas Pressed Steel Tank Car

The next volume of the Focus on Freight Cars series is being printed. Ordering information, including the pre-publication discount may be found via this link.

Prototype Railroad Profile No. 4 covering Missouri Pacific Panel Side Gondolas is available and now, in two “flavors” to cover this large group of 2,400 gondolas

• Print plus digital version – $10.00
• Digital download only – $7.00

If this is a success, we will release other titles in the series and go back and offer printed versions of the earlier titles. Stay tuned!

In addition to the restocks listed below (in the next post) we also have restocked a couple other items:

• Pere Marquette/C&O single sheathed auto cars
• Georgia Railroad steel rebuilt USRA box cars

The following are back in stock:

• K102 – New Haven 17200-series flat car
• K128 – Great Northern 36′ stock car
• P105 – Union Pacific welded underframe parts

There are a few of the kits for the Ann Arbor single sheathed box and automobile cars left from Cocoa Beach. Links as follows:

• K110.1 – Ann Arbor 41000-series Single Sheathed Automobile Cars
• K110.2 – Ann Arbor 74000-series Single Sheathed Box Cars

There are also some of the P118 – Pressure Head Cylinder and Integral Lever Bracket. In addition to the cars listed in the instructions, I have found a few more uses for these parts, most notably many PRR cars that had KD brakes with the integral slack adjuster lever bracket, including the FM, GS, G22, X23, X24, X25, X28, X29. Most of these cars retained this arrangement when equipped with AB brakes, meaning that the AB schedule reservoirs and AB valve were added, but the cylinder from the KD brakes was retained. Enjoy!

The Rohm & Haas versions of the Pressed Steel tank cars will arrive in January. For more info and an image of the decal artwork, click here