Wheels of Time Blog
Wednesday
Nov292017

Announcing Western Pacific "Fabulous Four"...

We excited to announce the Western Pacific "Fabulous Four" F-7 locomotives in N-scale. The Western Pacific kept running their last four EMD F-7 units, numbered 913, 917, 918, and 921 to the delight of railfans  - and became the most photograph units in the west.

Intermountain Railway Co. (IRC) will be exclusively manufacturing these units for Wheels of Time. These F-7 will have the newly revised tooled mechanism for DC (DCC ready), DCC or DCC with Sound. We are pleased to partner with IRC to bring you this special run. DEADLINE for PRE-ORDER IS DECEMBER 20TH. Do not delay! See our web site for details and tell a friend!

Monday
Nov272017

Introducing a new vehicle!

Wheels of Time is proud to announce a new N scale vehicle: the ubiquitous step van. It's ubiquitous because it's everywhere from the mid-1960s (which this model is based on) to the present day. They were also called multi-stop trucks, package delivery trucks, and stand-up delivery van. They were designed for the ease of the driver to hop out and into the vehicle. Used by the U.S. Mail, Railway Express Agency, other package express companies, bread companies, candies companies, potato chip vendors, fire departments, local utilty companies, and the newspaper companies. it's under our new custom brand called Custom Editions. Check it out.

Wednesday
Nov222017

HO scale Announcement!

Wheels of Time is excited to present our HO scale American Car & Foundry 62-ft Straight Tapered Bulkhead Flatcars and more GBEC look-alike-cousins.

The straight tapered design became the hallmark of bulkhead flatcars built since then. Introduced by Gunderson (GBEC) as SP Class F-70-50 in 1968, and copied by ACF as SP Classes F-70-59 (in 1971) and F-70-61. Wheels of Time cars will be numbered for the F-70-59 class. All of Wheels of Time HO scale flatcars will be highly detailed according to the ACF and GBEC. Also, Wheels of Time is happy to present similar looking cars but not exact prototype for other roads without compromising an excellent product. We hope all of the cars would be worthy of your considerations. Pre-orders by Jan10, 2018 for an estimated summer delivery. Please see your dealers or pre-order directly.

Friday
Nov172017

Wheels of Time N scale SP and UP Harriman baggage cars.

Wheels of Time N scale SP and UP Harriman baggage cars:  There is a slight interference between the flanges and the under frame ribs. There are a number of solutions to remedy this problem. If you have bought one of these cars, and would like .010" thick washers to be placed in between the truck and frame at the bolsters, just let us know and we will happy to mail you the washers. It will be available in about 2 - 4 weeks from now. The other option is to purchase Fox Valley Models #3302 Semi Scale Tread 33" wheels. We just want to make it right for all of our customers. Thank you! Matthew

Thursday
Nov092017

A momentary pause and a to-be-fix problem that we are aware of

We are pausing from shipping our N scale 60-ft Arched / Harriman Baggage-Express cars. So if you didn't get yours yet, we have not forgotten about you. We are taking a pause, so we can be at Trainfest this weekend.

Also, it has come to our attention that the flanges in the inner trucks rubs against on of the underframe ribs of the Harriman series cars - Southern Pacific and Union Pacific only. We are aware of this problem and are working on finding a solution for all of customers who bought a SP or UP Harriman 60-ft baggage-express car in N-scale. The other roads that are not SP or UP are not affected by this problem. In the meantime, hang tight.