This HO scale B&M PS-1 40-foot boxcar, as built with an 8-foot door by Pullman-Standard in 1957, will be available from Kadee Quality Products (www.kadee.com) in early November. Also coming next month is an Atlantic Coast Line 50-foot boxcar with a 9-foot door. It will be decorated in the 1963 as-new black paint scheme with yellow lettering. The car will be equipped with Kadee’s new 2-piece self-centering ASF Barber S-2 roller bearing truck with the ACL’s proprietary extended journal pockets. The third car arriving in November is a PS-2 2-bay covered hopper decorated for Southern Pacific in the 1957 as-new acid-resistant gray paint scheme. The car comes with Kadee’s new 2-piece self-centering ASF Ride Control trucks.

Kadee is rapidly converting many of its popular HO scale couplers to the newer Whisker® design. For example, the old #40 coupler series will be replaced with the #140 Whisker® series. The #153, #156, and #158 are the Whisker® scale head series but will not replace the #58 coupler. The present #118 SF shelf-coupler is being replaced by a new #118 SF Shelf-Whisker® coupler. The #78 scale (small head) coupler with scale draft gear is being replaced by #178 Whisker® version. The familiar #5 coupler will continue as Kadee’s standard-head in Kadee’s coupler line and the #58 will remain as the present backbone of their scale-head coupler line and the 20 and 30 series couplers will remain unchanged... at least for now.

Still under development are Whisker® couplers attached to trucks and a new logging car Whisker® coupler. As new Whisker® couplers are introduced, older styles are being sold at reduced prices while supplies last. Visit www.kadee.com to verify cost and the latest availability.