New 50′ Evans-USRE 5277 Boxcars from ExactRail Coming Soon!

New HO Scale 50′ Evans-USRE 5277 Boxcars from ExactRail Coming Soon! This will be release in there feature packed and affordable Evolution Series line.

This car will be available in several roadnames including, Burlington Northern (BN), Rock Island, Railbox (RBOX), Louisiana Midland Railway (LOAM), and Lake Erie Franklin & Clarion (LEF) and also as an undecorated kit.

We will add them here as soon as more details are released. http://www.dccinstalled.com/HO-Scale-Exactrail-s/844.htm

New PS 4000 Covered Hoppers from Tangent Models

Tangent’s PS 4000 hopper is now available in Monon, Wabash, Nickel Plate Road, and CGW.

Tangent continues to set the bar for HO Scale models, so much so that they are able to call their models replicas. These replicas may cost a lot more then an average HO scale model, but they are far from average.

Check out our Tangent Scale Models page here: http://www.dccinstalled.com/HO-Scale-Tangent-Scale-Models-s/3521.htm.

We have most paint schemes of the Tangent ACF 70 Ton Gondola in-stock including all 4 Pennsylvania RR varieties. The latest run of Penn Central gondolas is going quick and will probably be sold out soon.

We’re going GREEN! Check out the 2 latest announcements from ExactRail!

Click Here for the 60′ Box Cars

The HO Scale Box Cars are available in Norfolk Southern NS, Conrail CR, Penn Central PC, Detroit Toledo & Ironton DT&I, and CSX/NYC ex-Conrail.

Click Here for the 65′ Mill Gondolas

The HO Scale  gondolas are available in Missouri Pacific MP, Southern Pacific SP, Chicago & Northwestern C&NW, & UP/MP

NEW Exactrail HO & N-SCALE RELEASES AVAILABLE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH!

ExactRail is raising the bar for model trains!

Check out all the latest releases from ExactRail at DCCinstalled.com

There are 2 new Railbox Schemes Early and Late as well as MDW and Candian National. These FMC 5277 Combo Door Box Cars are expected to sell out so PRE-ORDER NOW!

Also in HO Scale is the 48′ Depressed Center Flat Car. These are being offered in Conrail CR, QTTX, Southern Pacific, Southern, ATSF and C&NW.

Last but not least ExactRail has announced the Evans 5277 Box Car in N Scale in D&H, ATW, EEC, IC, MB, and NSL.

PRE-ORDER ALL TODAY AT: DCCinstalled.com

 

Athearn Genesis BNSF SD70ACe’s now in stock!

Click Here to check them out now!

Our Price

DC – $149.99 Item #’s ATHG68512, ATHG68513, ATHG68514 & ATHG68515

DCC + Tsunami Sound – $229.99 Item #’s ATHG68612, ATHG68613, ATHG68614, & ATHG68615

NEW Amtrak Set from KATO, GE P42 Amfleet & Viewliner Phase IV Locomotive and 5-Car Set!

For the first time KATO is makeing the Intercity Amfleet II available in N Scale along with Phase IV Viewliners. At last the dream of modeling 90′s ear to East Coast trains can be a reality!

Click Here or on the coaches above for more information!

KATO adds 2 more GG1′s in Amtrak and Penn Central Paint!

2 new paint schemes for the KATO GG1!

KATO has announced 2 more paint schemes to the popular N Scale GG1. The new locos will be painted in 2 numbers for both Amtrak and Penn Central! Click Here to check them out today! They are expected to be released in December 2010. Pre-Order now!

10% off on Athearn 2-Bay Covered Hoppers till they are gone!

We are offering 10% off on all in-stock Athearn 2-Bay Covered Hoppers!

Click on the hopper to get the coupon code now! This offer will be good till we can no longer get them!

More on the prototype:

For the first hundred years or so of railroad history, dry bulk items such as sand and cement were put into bags or boxes and loaded into boxcars for shipment. This process required considerable labor to load and unload. In the 20th century a new type of car, the covered hopper, was developed. As the name implies, these cars were essentially an open top hopper with a roof and hatches added for loading. At first they were just used for special commodities, while cement was still hauled in boxcars. This began to change dramatically in the late 1940′s as the railroads ordered more and more covered hoppers. By the 1970′s almost all dry bulk items from sand to grain to plastic pellets were shipped in covered hoppers.

One of the more important builders of covered hoppers was American Cr & Foundry (ACF). The first ACF covered hoppers were rib-side cars, like many others of the time. In the 1960′s ACF eliminated the supporting ribs and started building what they called the Center Flow(R) hopper with a smooth, rounded side. The cars were built at several ACF plants, but the Huntington, West Virginia plant built only Center Flow cars since their inception and was the primary builder.

The first 2-bay 100 ton 2970 Center Flow cars built at Huntington weree part of a 150 car order for Chicago & NorthWestern, under building lot 11-02475, with an “on track” date of August 19th, 1966. The largest batch was building lot 11-02493, 500 cars built for the Rock Island, on track May 8th, 1967.

New N Scale announcement from KATO, 2 new freight sets, and GS-4 Paint Schemes…

Kato has announced 3 more N Scale GS-4 Locos. There will be 2 new locos in he Daylight Scheme with the smaller Southern Pacific Lines Lettering. The 3rd loco will be #4449 in the American Freedom Train Paint. We will be offering all 3 of the new locos with a DCC Updgrade option. Click Here or the photo above for more info on features and pricing!

They have also announced 2 freight train sets. Every hobby begins with a single step; start off on the right foot with a Kato “Starter Series” train set! Ideal for beginning modelers who already have a track setup or who are looking to purchase one of Kato’s Master Series Track Sets. Each set includes a Kato locomotive along with an assortment of appropriate rolling stock to create a great beginning train that is both enjoyable and versatile – just add track and power! Everything included meets the same high standards as Kato’s individually packaged products, and are fully capable of being expanded or rolled into existing layouts. Click Here or on the photo above to check them out!

Each F7 Freight Train set includes one of Kato’s EMD F7A locomotives, two ACF Covered Hoppers, a tank car, and an appropriately painted caboose. The F7A locomotives are DCC friendly and can be easily upgraded for Digital Command Control.

Tanget Models Union Pacific Bethlehem Quad Hoppers are ready to hit the rails!

Tangent Scale Models is proud to offer the 3600 cubic foot Bethlehem Steel design open quad hopper – as delivered to Union Pacific – as the fourth all-new model in their HO scale product line.   These cars represent UP’s largest fleet of coal hoppers in company history.   First produced in 1974 by Bethlehem Steel as UP class H-100-10, production of a majority of the fleet occurred in UP’s Albina Shops in Portland OR between 1976 and 1981.   Production of this important fleet ended with the H-100-23 class, after UP placed more than 6,900 of these “quad” hoppers in service in the rapidly-growing Western low-sulfur coal market.   As usual, Tangent Scale Models is the first manufacturer to offer this unique model in HO Scale plastic!   With these cars wandering far beyond just UP rails in both unit and carload services, consider adding some of these replicas to your layout or collection.

Click Here to see all 9 Schemes plus an undecorated model!

Priced at 32.95 for singles and 88.95 for 3-Packs!