Atlas

Atlas had sample cars of several new products at the show: 

The Trinity 3230 Pressure Differential Hopper in HO scale was developed from their larger 5660 PD by Thrall Car in the late 1990s. It is all new tooling with separately applied wire grab irons, separately applied wire cut levers, and etched metal roofwalks. Roadnames in the first release include CIT Group/Captial Finance, TXI (GBRX), General Electric Rail Services, Roanoke Cement, Trinity Industries Leasing, and Chicago Freight Car. 

HO scale Greenbrier TBOX "Grid Side 7550 cf high-capacity boxcar continues in development:

Walthers

Attention all Steel Modelers - the entire Steel buildings series is being re-released. And you're getting some new coil cars and steel coil loads. February 2020 is the expected delivery date on the Steel Mill buildings. 

There are a couple of other things too...

Electric Furnace Building: 

Blower Engine House w/Piping

Rolling Mill w/Reversing Stand

Blast Furnace: 

The Quencher will also be available but was not present to photograph.

 The coil loads are available separately. 

New locomotive announced - 

Hot metal bottle cars are back:  

As are the slag cars: 

Here is a sneak peak at some N scale bungalows that will be coming up. Expect an official product announcement in October.  

Walthers track is coming back - this time made by them, and not Shinohara. Note that it will be Code 83 and 100. 

HO Scale 57" mechanical reefer - early sample:

  That's it for now!

Broadway Limited (BLI)

Broadway limited has some new stuff to show off in N scale:

Unannounced NW2:

N scale Cryo tank cars: 

N Scale Pennsylvania P70 coaches:

N scale Mikado:

Hornby

Hornby/Rivarossi is looking towards America again, with a series of small boxcars, named "Soft boxcars." 

Note: Rivarossi is aware the color of the PRR boxcar is incorrect, and no units have been produced yet. 

North American Railcar Corp.

North American Railcar Corp. announced a model in HO and N scale of the 5431 cu. ft. National Steel Car 3-bay covered hopper. 

 With all new tooling, the models will have prototype specific features:

• 2 different roofs and photo-etched metal roof walks (11 or 16 supports)
• Photo-etched metal crossover platforms (with individually applied supports)
• 2 different end cage variations (Tapered or Angled corners)
• 3 different outlet gates (Gravity, ATP Long Gravity, Miner Short)
• Investment castings for capstans (end of gates)
• 2 different hand brakes (conventional and "High Power" Ellcon-National)
• 2 different reservoir positions (low for truck mounted cylinders and high for body mounted cylinders)
• external brake rod on cars with body mounted brake cylinders (including levers)
• 2 different styles of trough hatches (squared or rounded)
• Kadee #58 semi-scale couplers
• Coupler cut bars
• 2 bolster/jack pad styles (flat and sloped faces)
• North American Railcar High-Performance Low Friction Barber S-2 100-ton trucks with semi-scale 36" wheels
• 2 different hopper bay variations (with and without vibrator brackets).
• 12 different roadnumbers for each roadname (24 between two TRGX variations)
• BNSF, CP, CAIX, CP, TRGX, FURX, NKLX, WFRX, CN, PHILX.

There were three other sample cars at the NARC booth today, two versions of the National Steel Car (NSC) 5092 cf combo door boxcar, and a Marine Industries covered hopper. 

Intermountain

Intermountain Railway Corp had new runs of Evans 100-ton coil cars and containers on display at their booth:

Coil Cars seem to be popular this year - Walthers, InterMountain, and ScaleTrains.com have all announced either entirely new models or new runs of previously released cars. 

A helping hand from a friend:

N scale Gunderson 50ft high-cube double door boxcars: 

I wonder is "soft" was

Soft - Jbaakko

That just might be the case. I'll have to ask the Hornby guys.

Thanks for the idea.

I sincerely hope you'll be

Micro-Trains Line

To go with last year's M1A1 tanks, how about some uparmored Humvees?

Bachmann

Since someone asked, this seems like a good time to show off Bachmann's new models.

First, the aforementioned On30 2-6-2T locomotive, in a variety of drab paint schemes (the Army does not go for flashy):

 Another gray (with white U.S.A. lettering) and solid black were also on display.

N Scale track cleaning boxcar:

N scale 40' Gondola:

N scale GP40's with Economi Sound: 

A new line of 1/32nd scale structures, for slot cars (although if anyone out there is running 1:29 or #1 Scale, it seems they would fit there too: 

O scale cable drums:

HO scale modern three-color signals: 

N scale wired buffer stops: 

Track tool assortment: 

Bachmann has a license from Siemens to produce the SC-44 Charger with "DCC WOWSOUND in HO scale. Athearn has confirmed that their SC-44 project has been terminated. 

Multiple HO scale items:  

Large scale (1:29) couplers: 

Norfolk & Western J-class 4-8-4 Northern with Econami Sound Value DCC: 

B&O EM-1 2-8-8-4 Steam locomotive with Economi Sound Value DCC:

More of the large scale Eggliner motive power in ATSF, D&RGW, Fire, & Police:

Kadee

Kadee announced the scale metal HOn3 coupler, fully assembled, today.

Compared to the #5 coupler:

Jacksonville Terminal Company

Jacksonville Terminal Company continues to produce not only new paint schemes but entirely new N scale containers - to the point that HO scale modelers are asking them to make them in HO as well. I got the idea that probably wasn't going to happen soon. 

 This is an automated check-in gate for a container terminal. 

Bachmann 1/29 coupler

Athearn

Athearn didn't have any new announcements, as Chris put it, "We're here supporting our previously announced products." 

That includes the SD90MAC's, which have exceeded Athearn's expectations for pre-orders:

 I took this photo because I thought they were cute: 

UP 4141 (George H.W. Bush) is expected to arrive next month, for those who are waiting for theirs. 

Peco

Peco has a couple of interesting products in the pipeline, beginning with the Twistlock turnout motor:

They provide a template to drill three holes - the center is for the throwbar, and the two outside holes hole the posts that the Twistlock mounts to, simply by placing it between them and twisting to the right until they lock into place. 

Also new is the Wills OO/HO Modular Kit system, where various industrial and retail buildings can be constructed using modules that are part of the system:

ExactRail

ExactRail announced that it will be re-issuing the Evans 5277 boxcar in August. 

 Frankly my photos of ExactRail's new cars did not turn out to my satisfaction and I'll be going back to shoot them again. 

Coming tomorrow

I'm going to hit the sack, but I've still got Lionel, Dimensional Modeling Concepts, Cascade Rail Supply, Pre-Size Model Specialties, and Kato to upload. 

Pre-Size Model Specialties

Pre-Size Model Specialties features cast tunnel portals and associated parts. 

The two newest releases are an HO scale Hoosac Tunnel:

and an O scale single track concrete portal, IThe prototype is on Soldier Summit:

Cascade Rail Supply

Cascade Rail Supply is the premier source of homosote roadbed in the US - 

A small sample of their products:

Kato

Kato has a nice display at the show, including the new N scale Amtrak Viewliner as well as the Union Pacific SD70ACe's Spirit of UP #1943 and George HW Bush #4141:

Kato is also positioning themselves as a big supporter of T-Trak, a modular standard. While N scale is currently the most popular scale for T-Trak modeling, there are standards either developed or in the works for T, Z, N, TT, HO/OO, S, O, L, and G scales  http://www.t-trak.org/standards.html 

Kato has developed a "T-Trak in a box" kit that contains many of the materials for building a single N scale T-Trak module:

Dimensional Modeling Concepts

Dimensional Modeling Concepts is a 3D modeling company. I first met them at TrainFest last year where they were showing off their barbed wire fence system. See  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/2018-trainfest-12211319 for info on that. 

Some of the new products coming soon from Dimensional Modeling Concepts include Fueling track Flush Liners and Drip Liners:

Lionel

Lionel is coming back to HO scale in a big way, with their next catalog (Due Monday 7/15/2019) featuring around 125 new HO scale products. Many of these will be identifiable as prior Model Power products - Lionel purchased the Model Power line a year or two ago. LPP's (Little Plastic People) are going to figure largely in this release, with both painted and unpainted figures to be available. That includes the bag of several dozen unpainted figures available for under $20. See the clinic entry on "Frankensteining your Figures" a couple of days back for inspiration on what to do with that... 

The new catalog:

Lionel is not neglecting their O scale line either, in fact several of the Model Power products are being released in O scale as well. 

A very early test sample was on display of an O scale N&W J-class 4-8-4 locomotive:

Also on display were two 4-4-0 locomotives, set up in a setting reminiscent of the Golden Spike ceremony:

All the white plastic parts on the sample are 3D printed, and will be replaced by injection molded parts. As can be seen from the wheels, these are very early samples, sent for the show:

A nearly ready for production (should be available later this summer) GP35 in O scale:

Also nearly ready to ship i an O scale MOW train:

Bunk Car: 

Bunk Car:

O scale figures:

(Ignore that this tag says HO - it's wrong, I just went over to doublecheck)

O scale buildings:

Church kit:

Olson House kit:

There are several HO Structures coming out:

The Miller House kit:

Adding On building kit:

Farm House kit:

Madison House:

Water tank: 

Station platform (w/lighted clock):

Haunted House:

HO scale Church: 

Model Power flex track and Magne-Power track will soon be available:

About 1/3rd of the display was in HO scale:

And that's it for Day 1, aside from some booth photos. Those will be included in Day 2... 

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