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November 2018

Northern Pacific New York Central Road Number NP 1359 Road Number 18096

This 78’ Heavyweight paired-window coach is two-tone green with white lettering and runs on 6-wheel This 50’34’ woodstandard sheathed box car caboose with 8’ withplug straightdoo. cupola is green with white band and white lettering and passenger trucks. This car continued to serve Northern Pacific through the mid-1960s. runs on Bettendorf Swing Motion trucks. As one of NYC’s “safety cabooses” of the 1960s, it displayed the message “Life is like a baseball game. It is the number of times you get home safe that counts.”

#145 00 320...$34.90 #051 00 320...$32.90

Chicago & North Western® Ozone Waters Road Number CNW 14303/14307 Road Number GATX 27349 These 40’ despatch stock cars are yellow and green with yellow lettering and run on Andrews trucks. This 56’ general service tank car is white with blue band and sun logo and runs on Barber Roller Bearing Rebuilt in the mid-1950s at the Council Bluffs shop, these single deck stock cars were sold to United trucks. This GATX tank car is leased to, and painted in the Ozone Waters scheme of the 1970s. Ozone States Railway Equipment and then leased back to CNW for use across the Midwest. is sometimes added to spring or mineral water during bottling to remove odors and neutralize any microorganisms that make it past filtration.

#035 00 281...$27.60 CNW® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad. #035 00 282...$27.60 #110 00 400...$33.80

Union Pacific® HEINZ® Road Number USAX 19420 Road Number HJHC 440 This 50’ troop kitchen car is dark green and runs on Allied Full Cushion trucks. During WWII, Union Pacific This 36’ wood sheathed ice reefer with truss rods is brown with yellow decorated sides and runs on produced a variety of morale-boosting posters that depicted the railroad’s involvement in supporting the war. Arch Bar trucks. With a fleet of 700 cars, HEINZ was able to ship their product by rail to major markets This car’s poster features a train with the engineer waving in the foreground. throughout the US. These yellow sided refrigerator cars represent railcars painted throughout the late 1900s and through the ‘teens’. All cars carried the distinctive “Heinz 57” but each car advertised a WWII POSTER SERIES CAR #10 different product. SERIES CAR #3

The Heinz trademarks are owned by H.J. Heinz US Brands LLC and Kraft Heinz Canada ULC and are ® UP is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad. #118 00 200...$25.95 used under license. #058 00 420...$29.95

Accepting Orders for November Releases Beginning October 31st • All Prices U.S. Dollars Norfolk Southern Grand Trunk Western Road Number NS 191339 Road Number GTW 599835

This 50’ steel side, 14 panel, fixed end gondola with fishbelly sides is black with white lettering and runs on This 50’ standard box car with 8’ double sliding doors without roofwalk and short ladders is blue with Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in the 1960s, this 1980 cu.ft. car belonged to class G-12E and featured a white lettering and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Grand Trunk Western Railroad can trace its cushioned underframe and was used for open-air coil steel loads. roots back to 1858, when the Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad was formed. GTW was later absorbed by Canadian National. WITH COIL LOAD

#105 00 230...$26.90 #182 00 090...$24.85

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Custom Christmas Car Road Numbers HUBU 280865/280877 These 48’ rib side containers are white and aluminum with circle cross logo. Formed in 1996 following the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, BNSF is currently the largest freight railroad in the country, with over 32,000 miles of rail. At 48’ in length, these containers are commonly seen filling AVAILABLE MID-MONTH! the space in the bottom position of intermodal well-cars, with equal-length or longer containers above them.

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Rd#...280865...#468 00 141...$16.95 END Rd#...280877...#468 00 142...$16.95 Pre-orders were taken for this in September 2018 #101 00 804..$39.95

Genesee & Wyoming SW1500 Locomotive CTCX 3-pack AVAILABLE MID- MONTH! SOLD OUT NOW AVAILABLE! AT FACTORY

*Logos and rd#’s will not be printed on loco. Rendering shows how the loco will come decorated. All other artwork will be included on the decal sheet Decal sheet includes the following logos and related markings: N CTCX Genesee and Wyoming Railroad Company, Buffalo & Pittsburgh RR, Commonwealth Railway, 56’ General Service Tank Car Corpus Christi Terminal RR, Portland & Western Railroad, Rail Link, Inc., Tomahawk Railway, Pre-orders were taken for this in June 2018 Road#730833, 730848, 730872 Tazewell & Peoria RR, Quebec Gatineau Railway #993 00 147…$99.95 Pre-orders were taken for this in January 2017 #986 00 160…$174.95 YOUR SOURCE FOR Z

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Southern Pacific® Road Numbers 5036/5039 Road Numbers SP 106 ‘Oregon’

These EMD SD40-2 locomotives are blue and yellow with aluminum trucks. This locomotive was built in This modernized heavyweight business car is two-tone grey with white lettering and runs on 6-wheel pas- 1977 as part of a large order for ATSF, and rebuilt several times in the 1990s. Some locomotives in this senger trucks. Built in the 1920s, SP business car 106 was originally named “Shasta.” In the late 1950s, series later made it to BNSF in the 1996 merger. The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000 horsepower, turbocharged Shasta was given the two-tone grey paint scheme, and by late 1964, the business car was renamed locomotive with electronic control systems built from 1972 to 1989 with nearly 4,000 units produced. “Oregon.” AVAILABLE MID-MONTH!

Pre-orders were taken for these in June 2017 #970 01 091...$225.95 ® *Rendering shown for representation only. #970 01 092...$225.95 SP is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad. #556 00 070...$29.95

HEINZ® Ball Glass Road Number HJHC 440 Road Numbers 1022/1026

This 40’ wood reefer is brown with yellow decorated sides and runs on Arch Bar trucks. With a fleet of These 40’ double-sheathed wood box cars with single door are yellow with black lettering and run on 700 cars, HEINZ was able to ship their product by rail to major markets throughout the US. These yellow Andrews trucks. Built by the Mather Stock Car Company in 1917, this wood sheathed boxcar was leased sided refrigerator cars represent railcars painted throughout the late 1900s and through the ‘teens’. All to Muncie & Western for Ball Glass Jar service. cars carried the distinctive “Heinz 57” but each car advertised a different product. SERIES CAR #3

The Heinz trademarks are owned by H.J. Heinz US Brands LLC and Kraft Heinz Canada ULC and are #515 00 201...$23.80 used under license. #518 00 650...$29.95 #515 00 202...$23.80

VIA F7 B Locomotive and 4-pack

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SLEEPER SLEEPER

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F7B LOCO VIA 4-pack...#994 01 220...$119.95 Pre-orders were taken for this in May 2018 VIA B Unit...#980 02 450...$109.95 Southern Pacific® Impact Car Railbox 8-pack

Built for Southern Pacific, this 50’ boxcar was converted in the mid-1950s into an impact demonstration car. Serving to illustrate the importance of safe car handling, this car had a transparent sidewall to show AVAILABLE MID-MONTH! cargo movement, along with force and speed gauges displaying data from each collision. AVAILABLE MID-MONTH!

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Pre-orders were taken for this in May 2018 Z Railbox 50’ Rib Side Box Car with Plug & Sliding Door SIDE B Pre-orders were taken for this in May 2018 Road# 50467, 50445, 50523, 50532, 50654, 50676, 50898, 50910 SP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad. #031 00 490...$59.95 #994 00 811...$239.95

Penn Central Heavyweight 5-pack AVAILABLE MID-MONTH!

COACH COACH

BAGGAGE *Rendering shown for representation only. Pre-orders were taken for this in June 2018 #993 01 750...$124.95

DODX ‘Mixed’ 3-Pack

These 68’DODX flat cars are painted in three different greens with white lettering and run on Buckeye 6-wheel DODX trucks. Built by Fruit Growers Express in 1981, these heavy-duty Department of Defense flat cars belong to series 40000-40100. They’re used by the US Army and USMC to transport M1 Abrams tanks and other heavy military vehicles across the United States between bases for training and deployment. AVAILABLE MID-MONTH!

*Tank Loads come unassembled and unpainted. *Rendering shown for representation only. Decals and instructions included Pre-orders were taken for this in July 2017 #993 01 630...$124.95 Illinois Central Heavyweight 5-Pack Accepting Pre-Orders thru November 30th

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COACH COACH

COMING APRIL 2019 #993 01 790...$149.95 BUSINESS CAR *Renderings shown for representation only. Civil War Era ‘Blue Line’ 4-pack COMING APRIL 2019 Accepting Pre-Orders thru November 30th

*Renderings shown for representation only. #993 01 800...$89.95

N & Z Scale Runner Packs COMING APRIL 2019 Accepting Pre-Orders thru November 30th

N Union Pacific® 4-pack Z Union Pacific® 4-pack 50’ Auto Box Car, Double Side Doors & End Door 40’ Flat Car with locomotive prime mover with generator load Road#161039, 161098, 161125, 161195 Road#51120, 51127, 51131, 51135 *Renderings shown for representation only. #993 00 152…$99.95 #994 00 108…$79.95 UP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad. www.trainsoftime.com

October Weathered Cars

SOLD OUT AT FACTORY N Union Pacific® ex/RI N Railbox ‘Vegetarian Day’ #025 44 566…$28.95 #096 44 180...$29.90 Contact Your Dealer for Availability!

Z Railbox ‘Vegetarian Day’ #510 44 227…$28.95

SOLD OUT AT FACTORY N ‘Day of the Dead’ 2-pack Z Southern Pacific® 2-pack #993 05 470…$59.95 #994 05 200…$54.95 Micro-Trains 2019 Product Guide Cover Photo Contest Micro-Trains is opening up the cover shot of the annual Product Guide catalog to you! Want to have a shot of your home layout or club layout on the cover of Micro-Trains annual Product Guide catalog for a year? If so, you can enter our ‘2019 Product Guide Cover Photo Contest’ by submitting your photo to [email protected] by Friday, November 30th. Last Month Winner gets: To Enter! • Their photo used on the cover of the Micro-Trains 2019 Product Guide • $100 gift certificate to Micro-Trains online store • Custom framed copy of the 2019 Product Guide cover. Micro-Trains will recognize up to two people in relation to the winner photo. Photos need to be hi-resolution jpegs at 300dpi and at least 2,400 pixels wide by 2,400 pixels tall, with good lighting and in focus. Portrait shots are preferred although some landscape shots may also work. Only photos with exclusively MTL rolling stock or locomotive products shown will be accepted. N scale model shots only, no Z scale. If the photo contains any material or elements not owned by the entrant, the entrant is responsible for receiving permission from the owner(s) to use the photo in this contest prior to submitting the photo. Do not show brands on model trains or surrounding scenery that require licenses except for Ringling Bros™, HEINZ®. Photos may be Don’t Delay! Entry Deadline subject to modifications to fit cover and header needs. Micro-Trains reserves the right to refuse any November 30th! photo for any reason. All photos submitted become property of Micro-Trains Line Co. and may be used by Micro-Trains in other promotional materials or on Micro-Trains website or Facebook page.

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Micro-Trains True-Scale Coupler This new coupler is specifically designed for accurate scale size, more Available in Brown! prototypical features, proper scale-distance between cars and no slinky effect when operating. This easy-to-assemble and install body mount coupler consists of a draft gear box, lid, knuckle, lip shank and a separate plug-in air hose. There are no springs. They are uncoupled manually using a sharp toothpick or a needle and can be joined by simply pushing the cars together. These couplers are to scale so they will not couple with existing larger N scale couplers. For those who have Magne-Matic or other coupler systems, you can use a conversion car For more information about this new coupler, (like the ones below), which comes with a Magne-Matic installed on one watch the video on our website for a step-by- end and a True-Scale coupler on the other. step demonstration of how to assemble and install the True-Scale Coupler! #001 02 300...... True-Scale Coupler w/short shank (2 pr)...... $3.70 #001 02 301...... True-Scale Coupler w/long shank (2 pr)...... $3.70 #001 22 300...... True-Scale Coupler w/short shank BROWN (2 pr)...... $3.45 #001 10 300...... True-Scale Coupler w/short shank (10 pr)...... $17.10 #001 22 301...... True-Scale Coupler w/long shank BROWN (2 pr)...... $3.45 #001 10 301...... True-Scale Coupler w/long shank (10 pr)...... $17.10 #001 25 300...... True-Scale Coupler w/short shank BROWN (10 pr)... $15.95 #069 30 211...... Canadian Pacific Conversion Car...... $27.90 #001 25 301...... True-Scale Coupler w/long shank BROWN (10 pr)... $15.95 351 Rogue River Parkway P.O. Box 1200 Talent, OR 97540-1200 U.S.A. Email: [email protected] First Class

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The B&O, Seaboard Air Line, Seaboard Coast Line, Chessie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Louisville and Nashville, and Western Maryland are the property of CSX Transportation Inc. Visit Us At The Show M1 Abrams Tank 2pk Kit Trainfest NOW AVAILABLE! November 10-11 Wisconsin State Park West Allis, WI Rogue Valley Railroad Show November 24-25 *Kits come unassembled and undecorated Jackson County Expo *Includes decal sheet and photo-etch chain tie-downs Central Point, OR Amherst Train Show January 26-27 Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds (parts for one tank shown) West Springfield, MA Pre-orders were taken for this in September 2018 #499 45 901…$19.95

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