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  MICRO-TRAINS - N SCALE NEW RELEASES


With Interior Light

Without Interior Light

Jupiter
Road Name: The Gas Giant

Solar System Series!

These 60’ excess height box cars with modified sides are black with brown and orange decorated sides and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our Solar System. A gas giant, it is composed of hydrogen and helium. If it was larger and had reached the density for nuclear fusion, it would be a second sun.

#102 00 835...$36.95...With Interior Light
#102 02 835...$27.95...Without Interior Light


#499 45 910...$7.95...Magnetic Wand - Sold Separately


Pennsylvania Railroad
Road Number 7507

This 83’ 3-2 heavyweight observation car is tuscan with buff letting and runs on 4-wheel passenger trucks. This D78DD-class diner was built for Pennsylvania Railroad in 1926, and rebuilt in the early 1950s. It saw service until the late 1960s and housed a kitchen and dining area, all electrically powered by underframe-mounted diesel engines.

#144 00 360...$32.90



Chessie System
Road Numbers B&O 360814/C&O 39275

These 50’ steel side, 14 panel, fixed end gondolas, wth fishbelly sides are black with yellow lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. With a 70-ton capacity and friction bearing trucks, they were used extensively through the 1980s when many received upgrades and new Chessie System paint jobs.

B&O®...#105 00 320...$26.90
C&O®...#105 00 330...$26.90


Missouri Pacific®
Road Number HERB-1

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

This 40’ standard box car with single door, full ladders and no roofwalk is brown with white lettering and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. HERB-1 was a non-revenue car used for safety awareness across the MP system. Officially sanctioned by MP and applied to the car sides in 1979 by an employee, the artwork was designed in the style of Herbie Meyer, a legendary early graffiti artist and switchman for MP who retired in 1980.

#073 00 260...$27.90


Chateau Martin
Road Number CMWX 102

GRAPE-TO-GLASS SERIES #9

This 39’ single dome tank car is aluminum with black lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. This 6,000-gallon tank car was built in 1940 in Milton, PA for Commodities Car Company. It was leased to Eastern Wine Corporation, owners of the Chateau Martin Wine Brand. Chateau Martin’s famous winery was in Waterford, California, and bulk shipped finished wine to the Bronx, New York, where it was bottled.

#065 00 086...$29.95


Illinois Central Gulf
Road Number ICG 220220

WITH CONTAINER LOAD

This 40’ drop bottom gondola is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. This car was upgraded to container service in 1974 at the Centrailia Car Shops. Illinois Central was one of the oldest railroads in the United States, formed in 1851. It continued to operate independently until 1998, when Canadian National Railway purchased the line.

#083 00 140...$26.90


Union Pacific®
Road Number UP 4053

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

This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. : Placarded to carry fish oil, this 8,000 gallon capacity car belonged to a series of 100 similar tank cars. Union Pacific was founded in 1862, and was the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Today, UP is one of the largest railroads in the U.S., with nearly 32,100 miles of track.

#065 00 096...$27.70


Western Pacific® Runner Pack
Road Numbers 52059, 52255, 52295, 52469

COMING NEXT MONTH!
Rendering shown for representation only.
WP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Pre-orders were taken for this in May 2020

40’ Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer

#993 00 171…$99.95



SIDE A

SIDE B

Micro-Mouse

NOW AVAILABLE!

This 60’ excess height box car with double plug doors and rivet sides is dark blue with decorated sides and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. With lights hung and Christmas day near, Micro-Mouse and the family load up the car with gifts and the Christmas cheese-tree and head to Grandmother’s house. After a long winter drive they arrive at Grandmother’s warm, cozy home for the holiday.

#102 00 150...$27.95


MICRO-TRAINS - Z SCALE NEW RELEASES


SIDE A

SIDE B

Micro-Mouse

NOW AVAILABLE!

This 50’ standard box car with plug door is dark blue with decorated sides and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. With lights hung and Christmas day near, Micro-Mouse and the family load up the car with gifts and the Christmas cheese-tree and head to Grandmother’s house. After a long winter drive they arrive at Grandmother’s warm, cozy home for the holiday.

#507 00 680...$27.95


Z Scale Cabeese

NOW AVAILABLE!
Pre-orders were taken for these in March 2020
UP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.


SIDE A

SIDE B

CSX®
#535 00 420....$32.95

Union Pacific®
#535 00 480....$29.95


MID-MONTH RELEASES

Santa’s Off-The-Rail Express Set

AVAILABLE MID-MONTH!
Pre-orders were taken for these in July 2020
Renderings shown for representation only.

This year’s Christmas train set depicts Santa making his annual delivery, however you’ll see on the other side of each car that his night on Christmas Eve did not quite go according to plan. The train consists of a dark blue FT locomotive and caboose, and three silver and red modified 40’ Hi-Cube box cars with different artwork on each side.

#993 21 340...$229.95


NEW PRE-ORDERS

SOLAR SYSTEM SERIES SINGLES

Accepting Pre-Orders through October 31st
Renderings shown for representation only.
Attention! These are not on Standing Order with the series. You must pre-order them separately.


Dwarf Planets
#102 00 839...$36.95 with light
#102 02 839...$27.95 w/o light


The Moon
#102 00 840...$36.95 with light
#102 02 840...$27.95 w/o light


Halley’s Comet
#102 00 842...$36.95 with light
#102 02 842...$27.95 w/o light


Caboose-The Milky Way Galaxy
#100 00 810.....$29.95


Southern Runner Pack
Road Numbers 60514, 60750, 61118, 61349

Accepting Pre-Orders through October 31st
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50’ Steel Side, 14 Panel, Fixed End Gondola, Fishbelly Sides

#993 00 176…$99.95


Z Scale Regular Release Pre-Order

Accepting Pre-Orders through October 31st
TARGET RELEASE FEBRUARY / MARCH 2021
Be sure to get your pre-order in so these great cars don’t get cancelled!
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(Reprint) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
#531 00 073...$25.95
#531 00 074...$25.95

 



Pennsylvania
#531 00 321...$25.95
#531 00 322...$25.95



CSX®
#531 00 331...$25.95
#531 00 332...$25.95



Frisco
#531 00 341...$25.95
#531 00 342...$25.95



Penn Central
#531 00 351...$25.95
#531 00 352...$25.95



Milwaukee Road
#531 00 361...$25.95
#531 00 362...$25.95