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Product Guide 2019 PRODUCT GUIDE *Layout and photo by Jay Oberg Experience & Quality You Can Depend On Dear Model Railroader: Welcome to our 2019 Micro-Trains Product Guide. Located in Southern Oregon, Micro-Trains manufactures premier N and Z scale rolling stock, our popular Magne-Matic® Coupler Welcome System, and a variety of model railroad tools and accessories, in our 33,000 sq ft factory. And we’ve been at it for over 46 years! During 2019, we have an array of all new model railroad products, that we’ll be designing, tooling and producing for you, our valued customer. This year our new tooling will include our 11th Heavyweight Passenger car, in this series; the Single Window Coach Car. And given the popularity of our N scale DODX 68’ flat car with military loads; we’ll be producing our own injection-molded multipurpose, light 4-wheel drive military utility vehicle known as the Humvee, as the next military load for our DODX flat cars. Already underway, Micro-Trains has been enhancing our ever-popular 40’ and 50’ box cars by lowering the car’s underframe to the rail, and offering “cored through”, injection-molded roof walks, similar to what we’ve already done with our 50’ box car roof walks. In addition, we’re modifying the cars to body-mount couplers, and where appropriate adding etched metal brake platforms to the car ends. We’re essentially making the best N scale rolling stock, even better! In addition to tooling up all new rail cars and accessories, Micro-Trains continues the tradition of issuing prototypical railcar series during 2019; we’ll be introducing our “Farm- to-Table” Reefer series in both N and Z scale. This series will feature 12 prototypical reefer cars. We also have a number of multi-car packs planned for 2019. Speaking of the year 2019, Micro-Trains will recognize throughout the year, the 50th anniversary of the N scale patent issued for our Magne-Matic® Couplers that revolutionized N scale model railroading! Through the years we’ve seen a number of knock-off knuckle couplers, but none have offered the reliable, hands-free coupling and uncoupling like our Magne-Matic® couplers. Micro-Trains strongly encourages you to support your favorite model train and hobby retailers. In addition, please know that we do offer our own online retail store. This provides but one more option to shop and purchase our entire line of N and Z railcars, sets, tools and accessories. In closing, please know all of us at Micro-Trains appreciate the interest and support of N and Z scale modelers from around the world. We look forward to offering the best trains during 2019 and beyond! Eric Smith President and CEO Table of Contents New Products 3 Runner Packs and Special Offerings 12 Made in America 3 Weathered 13 N Scale Rolling Stock 4-6 Trucks & Magne-Matic® Coupler 14 Z Scale Rolling Stock 7-8 Custom Runs 14 Z Scale Micro-Track® 9 Trains of Time 15 Specialty Series 10 Buy Online 15 Train Sets 11 2 New Product & Upgrades N Upgrades Micro-Trains Line has launched an ongoing program to upgrade many of our popular freight cars that were produced years ago. So far we have designed new underframes on our 40’ and 50’ Pullman Standard boxcar series, lowering them to correct ride height and equipped with body mount couplers. We are also adding see- through roofwalks and etched-metal brake platforms, N Upgrades further adding to the prototypical look of our cars. N Metal Wheel Sets Last year we introduced our all-new 33” metal wheel sets available in package form. These wheels are cast metal and blackened with plastic axles that allow for great performance and reliability. Continuing with the mission to enhance our extensive product line, we are working diligently to streamline our process so we can begin offering our rolling stock equipped with these N Metal Wheel Sets metal wheel. N Humvee Following our release of the first-ever injection-molded 1/160 scale M1 Abrams battle tank last year, Micro-Trains Line will add an injection-molded Humvee to our growing line of military vehicles. The model will be offered in kit form with a clear window insert and photo-etched stainless steel detailed parts. Metal parts include hood lift rings, N Humvee rear view mirrors, mud flaps, a front brush guard and chain tie-downs. These vehicles were commonly seen being transported on the rail and are perfect for our 68’ DODX flat car. N 78’ Single Window Coach Of all the heavyweight passenger cars built, the single window coach was one of the most common and versatile cars ever produced. Based on a NYC prototype, our America / Made in New Product new single window coach will feature fine surface details, correct interior, body mounted Magne-Matic couplers N 78’ Single Window Coach and an all-new 4-wheel passenger car truck common on local trains. *Renderings shown for representation only. Made in America All Micro-Trains rolling stock is designed, tooled and produced in the United States. Located in beautiful southern Oregon, Micro-Trains’ 33,000 sq.ft. factory resides in the small city of Talent. For over 45 years Micro-Trains has been producing model trains, start to finish, right here in the USA. With over 50 employ- ees, our crew is dedicated to manufacturing the highest quality models in the industry and providing the highest level of service possible. Our in-house engineering and tooling departments push the limits of plastic injection mold tooling to create some of the finest models in the world. Once tooling has finished the mold and plastic has been run, the shells and related parts move on to our decorating department. The decorating process requires a variety of printing machines and special techniques to get the micro-fine print and mask detail that you find on our cars. The final stage is the as- sembly process where the cars come to life. Our assembly crew utilizes a combination of pneumatic jigs and hand assembly work to put the dozen or more pieces together for each car. We are proud that, to date, we’re the only model train company in the world that offers more than 160 styles of N and Z scale freight, passenger and locomo- tive equipment. If you are coming to southern Oregon and would like to see our factory firsthand, contact our front office a couple days in advance and we’d be happy to give you a personal tour. Thank you for your continued support of our American-made products! 3 Leading Quality Heavyweight 3-2 Observation Car With over 130 body styles available, we proudly offer the largest selection of N scale body styles in the industry! Our models N Scale Rolling Stock feature details such as die-cast metal underframes, ultra-thin foot stirrups, windows, and operating doors and hatches. We also incorporate etched metal with some of our body styles to offer the most prototypical details possible. And all of our models come equipped with our Magne-Matic® couplers. Bay Window Caboose 100 Ton 3-Bay Open Hopper, Rib Sides, w/ Coal Load 40’ Standard Box Car, Plug Door 50’ Rib Side Box Car, Single Door w/o Roofwalk 39’ Single Dome Tank Car 40’ Standard Box Car, Single Door 40’ Despatch Stock Car 50’ Standard Box Car, Double Plug Doors ® 40’ Outside Braced Box Car, Single Door 60’ Thrall Centerbeam Flat Car 34’ Wood Sheathed Caboose, w/ Straight Cupola 33’ Twin Bay Hopper, Rib Side 50’ Standard Box Car, Plug & Sliding Door, w/o Roofwalk 40’ Double Sheathed Wood Reefer w/ Vertical Brake Wheel 2 Bay ACF Center Flow® Covered Hopper 3 Bay Evans Covered Hopper 33’ Panel Side Twin Bay Hopper 4 Heavyweight Depressed-Center Flat Car 50’ Steel Side, 14 Panel, Fixed End Gondola 3 Bay ACF Center Flow® Covered Hopper w/ Elongated Hatches 56’ General Service Tank Car 89’ Tri-Level Open Auto Rack 50’ Troop Kitchen Car 3-Dome Tank Car 89’ Tri-Level Closed Auto Rack 50’ Troop Sleeper 43’ Ortner Open Hopper 60’ Box Car, Excess Height, Double Plug Doors Waffle Side 40’ Drop Bottom Gondola 40’ Drop Bottom Gondola w/ Side Extensions 65’ Log Car 61’ Bulkhead Flat Car 40’ Modern Log Car Disconnect Log Car 51’ Rib Side Mechanical Reefer 52’ Riveted Steel Express Reefer, Plug Door 36’ Riveted Steel Caboose, w/ Offset Cupola 10-1-2 Heavyweight Sleeper Car 50’ Composite Gondola Drop Ends, w/ Fishbelly Sides 60’ Thrall® Centerbeam Flat Car 40’ Hy-Cube Box Car, Single Door N Scale Rolling Stock 28-1 Heavyweight Parlor Car 70’ Husky Stack Well Car RPO Heavyweight Passenger Car 12-1 Heavyweight Sleeper Car Heavyweight Paired Window Coach Car Do you find yourself counting rivets? Well we do. Our engineers strive to ‘wow’ our customers with each new model. And we don’t just focus on the plastic; we work diligently to get the right colors, fonts, and placement to match the real-life car. For a complete and current list of available product and pricing, contact your authorized Micro-Trains dealer, or go to www.micro-trains.com 5 70’ Heavyweight Baggage Car 80’ Heavyweight Diner Car 70’ Heavyweight Mail Baggage Car 70’ Heavyweight Horse Car 70’ Warren Circus Flat Car 50’ Airslide Hopper N Scale Rolling Stock N Scale Body Style Listing N SCALE CARS N SCALE CARS cont. 020 00 000 40' Standard Box Car, Single Door 096 00 000 3-Bay High-Side Covered Hopper (PS2) 021 00 000 40' Standard Box Car, Plug Door 098 00 000 Airslide Covered Hopper 022 00 000 40' Standard Box Car, Plug & Sliding Door 099 00 000 3-Bay Covered Hopper (Evans) 023 00 000 40' Standard Box Car, Double Doors 100 00 000 36' Riveted Steel Caboose, Offset Cupola 024 00 000 40' Standard Box Car, Single Door, w/o Roofwalk 101 00 000 40' Hy-Cube Box Car, Single Door 025 00 000 50' Rib Side Box Car, Single Door, w/o Roofwalk
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