Monthly Features

The following are our featured products for the month, these usually consist of new and notable releases or items we just find plain cool and think you might want to take a further look at.




September/October 2023.

I am going to try and utilize the website and work it at lease a bit more going forward!

Rapido Buses are on sale for $28.00 each while supplies last! Illuminated too!





E7 4000 FROM BLI LEADS THE KATO 20TH CENTURY THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON SUN PAST MOHAWK #3149.







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HELPING WITH “PICTURE WITH SANTA” FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND CISLER REALTY. 12/05/2020

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Atlas Beer Can Tank Cars have arrived! Check out the new listing!

The 20th Century has arrived! We currently have 9 car sets, 4 car add ons, individual cars, and a few locomotives. Cars can be obtained lighted or unlighted.

The long awaited 20th Century from Kato has finally been announced! This will feature several new tooled cars not done before by Kato!! Also, they will be doing E7’s for the first time. Unfortunately only the A units and not the B. At least, for now. I can hope! This will be a 13 car train altogether complete with a specially themed rerailer to reflect the 20th Century Tradition.

The 9 Car Set Contents:

Baggage RPO #5017

4-4-2 Sleeper “George Washington Bridge”

4-4-2 Sleeper “Bay Bridge”

4-4-2 Sleeper “Queensboro Bridge”

Club Lounge “Lake Shore”

Kitchen-Dormitory #474

Dining Car #401

12 Bedroom Sleeper “Port of Buffalo”.

5 Bedroom Lounge Observation “Hickory Creek”.

List Price $315.00 Neal’s Price $237.50

List Price with Lights $450.00 Neal’s Price $315.00


4 Car Add On Set

10-6 Sleeper “Chicago River”.

10-6 Sleeper “Powder River”.

12 Bedroom Sleeper “Port of Boston”.

12 Bedroom Sleeper “Port of Albany”.

List Price $140.00 Neal’s Price $105.00

List Price with Lights $200.00 Neal’s Price $140.00

ALL 13 CARS-$320.00!!!!! WITH LIGHTS INSTALLED-$450.00

THESE ARE PRE-ORDER PRICES. PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL US TO RESERVE AS THE WEBSITE DOESN’T DO PREORDERS!!


Kato E7’s. AA Set. $230.00 list. $165.00 sale. With the cars, $155.00. With DCC-$275.00. With the cars, $265.00

DCC and Sound-$500.00 With the cars-$445.00










CHECK OUT THE NEW MIKADOS COMING FROM BLI!!! EVEN THOUGH THE LIST PRICE HAS GONE UP, WE HAVE HELD OUR PRICING!

 
 
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COMING SOON

NEW ROAD NAMES!!!

THE 400 SERIES DISPLAY SET IS HERE!!

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HERE NOW!!

IT IS STUNNING!

The boxed set, shown below, comprises an E8, a cab control car, and 4 coaches. The 400 Series were named because the goal was to cover 400 miles in 400 minutes. Chicago/Minneapolis was the most famous city pair served by these trains. They also included a Bi-level parlor car and a Coach-Buffet car due to the longer distance they served.

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BROADWAY MIKADO

Pictured to the left is the extra E8 being offered by Kato for this train. The boxed set does include a space so that you can add this locomotive to the train and operate in true prototypical fashion.

These sets and additional units are due at the end of November. Please call or email us to pre-order these sets NOW! Given how attractive they are, I expect the first run to sell out FAST. And I have no idea if Kato are planning a second run, so the delay could be substantial if they do offer it a second time.

1266 Light Mikado locomotives were built in total; 625 under USRA auspices, and a further 641 by individual railroads after WWI. An extremely popular and versatile design, many of these locomotives continued in service until diesels replaced them. “The USRA Heavy Mikados used pretty much the same running gear as the Light Mik's, but the boilers were 10 inches larger in diameter and they had larger cylinders as well. Tractive effort was about 10% higher for the heavy 2-8-2's.” (Broadway Limited’s website) A total of 1190 Heavy Mikados were built for a total of 23 railroads. Altogether, over 50 railroads ended up owning Mikados.

This model is equipped with excellent sound and has a tremendous mechanism.


Kato SD70ACe “The Spirit” With Sound

Union Pacific’s Locomotive No. 1943, The Spirit, is the 16th commemorative locomotive introduced in the 155-year-old company’s history. The Spirit honors the United States’ armed forces and the men and women filling their ranks. Created in collaboration with Union Pacific veterans, the locomotive illustrates the railroad’s connection to the thousands of veterans who helped build America through the centuries.

Every detail in The Spirit’s trade dress incorporates a piece of each U.S. armed forces branch. The Spirit’s front is symbolic of Air Force Silver, and the blue stripe is a reflection of the former Strategic Air Command’s “nose sash.” The lettering inside the sash is the original handdrawn font used on the B-17. It is followed by the Coast Guard’s “Racing Stripe” and the Navy’s Battleship Gray, which frames Union Pacific’s traditional American flag. The military camouflage is a nod to the Army and Marines.

As the train passes by, the final message on the tail is dedicated to U.S. prisoners of war and those missing in action, featuring the POW/MIA symbol and its motto, You Are Not Forgotten.

This model is equipped with an awesome sounding ESU sound decoder and has Kato’s famous mechanism, resulting in probably one of the best locomotive’s to ever exist in N-scale!

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Broadway Limited T1

The Pennsylvania Railroads's 52 T1 class duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives, introduced in 1942 (2 prototypes) and 1945-1946 (50 production), were their last steam locomotives built and their most controversial. They were ambitious, technologically sophisticated, powerful, fast and distinctively streamlined by Raymond Loewy.

This model is equipped with Broadway’s usual excellent mechanism and their outstanding sound quality making it perhaps one of the best N-scale steam locomotives to exist!