Home / Operating like the prototype - website clinic / October 2010 News Online / Micro-Trains
Micro-Trains
Micro-Trains Line Company (www.micro-trains.com) has introduced Runner Packs that consist of four Z scale freight cars with different road numbers. The cars feature Magne-Matic® couplers. Currently available is a quartet of Texaco tank cars with road numbers 8099, 8128, 8246, 8268. The Texaco Runner Pack is priced at $69.95.
>> Posts index
Navigation
Journals/Blogs
Recent Blog posts:
Comments
Surprising editor's choice for the MT news
MicroTrains announced almost two dozen items in September in N, Z, and HOn3 (even some building kits in N and Z). This Z scale runner pack wouldn't even make the top 10 in terms of interest for most modelers. And the price is incorrect: it's $69.95, not $9.95 (although that would be news!).
If MRH is serious about covering MicroTrains news, an excellent resource is George Irwin's Unofficial MicroTrains Release Report. It's free, but requires a subscription. (and so far he does not cover the structures)
Even a 30-second perusal of the MicroTrains site turns up a number of newsworthy items released in September:
- N scale Auto boxcar with internal loading equipment
- N scale cattle car with trackside loading ramp
- N and Z scale structure kits(!)
- N scale Passenger car runner packs
- HOn3 Gondola
etc., etc.
It's not the most obvious site to navigate, but MT's own webpage has new information every month, as they always have a number of new releases.
MODERATOR NOTE: Corrected the price.
Byron
Free Layout Design Gallery
Layout Design Special Interest Group
H0n3
And MicroTrain makes nice H0n3 cars too.
Wolfgang
I'm with Wolfgang
I think I own every one of the HOn3 cars they have to offer so far and they run great with very good free wheeling.
Dan
Rio Grande Dan