What's the latest N Scale?

Atlas made a rerally nice U25B, red scheme. Two of the smoothest engines for me, ever. I don't know if they were slow motors or the regular ones.

 

I have two of the Life Like E-8s in the Race Horse paint scheme that I used to pull my Texas Special with on occasion.

 

No. They are not so new. I think they are the first run Atlas Classic. Uh-oh! Was that Rock Island?

 

One of them is # 2016 (Citation) and the other is # 2020 (Big Red). One of these days I am going to modify the nose headlight to make it look better.

 

Charlie: I know you are et up with the Frisco, but don't forget those interchange roads, too. It is fun to have a few different paint schemes thrown in there.

 

Wow, I finally made it here... I needed my train fix...
As for Frisco content, I don't have any engines with a coonskin on it, but a few freight cars are dispersed into the fleet.
Hi everyone!

 

Thru Cheyenne, yes, I can see that... But on the Moffat Route?? I have pooled power from WP, SSW, SP, and all the BN predecessors as of the 1970 merger. I guess a Frisco unit concieveably have run in a BN consist over the Moffat shortly after M-day in the 80's... D&RGW and BN were good partners, sharing joint trains, pooled power, and with ATSF on the Joint Line. Dangit, I need a Frisco unit now!

 

Frisco leased most of the GP35 fleet to BN for a while in the mid 1970s. They were all in orange and white paint by that time.

Paul

 

Microtrains released their depressed center flat car as SLSF3900 over the summer (I think it was June, but I'm not sure).

Atlas has released 4 different road numbers of their 90/100 ton 3-bay hoppers in Frisco paint over the last 3 years. Another pair of numbers is due soon.

Atlas and Microtrains have both released 50 foot ribbed sided boxcars in SLSF paint. The Atlas version came in two road numbers. I believe these were both delievered durring 2004.

Atlas has also released a few wide vision cabooses. The first one was Orange and white #1275, more recently they have released two pre-1968 WV cabs and two post-1968 cabs. (The pre-1968 the cabs had 3 digit road numbers. The cabooses were all re-numbered to 4 digit numbers in 1968 when the locomotive fleet was renumbered to 3 digit numbers. These particular cabs were in the 200 series prior to 1968, and in the 1200 series after 1968).

The N-Scale Collector did a 5 car set of boxcars in 2004 as well.

I can't think of any other new rolling stock releases in the past couple of years.

As for locomotives, the last few locomotive releases were
E8s from Lifelike (which have already been mentioned)
FA-1s and FB-1s from LifeLike
GP38ACs from Atlas
B30-7s from Atlas
4-8-2 Mountains from Bachmann (Spectrum series)

And I can't forget that OMI released a set of E-7s in the Texas Special scheme.

I think that wraps it up....

Paul

 

I haven't seen the Frisco Depressed center car. Black?

Thanks for the info, Paul Bender. I am sure that you are correct that there were no Atlas U25Bs in Frisco.

BTW, I am painting my home road from a purchased ex-Frisco RS1. It gets leased as an extra power in the spring. And, I think I finally got that thing to run. You would think it was made by Alco instead of Atlas!

 

Athern has a 50' Frisco gondola. New item; just saw it on Wig-Wag.