Wheels of Time Blog
Wednesday
Dec052012

Shipping schedule and updates

 

  • We will be shipping the 2nd run of our N scale PC-90 Piggy-Packers from Dec. 6th to Dec. 13th to all customers except item no. 70026 Western Pacific Transport.  The factory made a lettering mistake on the Western Pacific Transport and is being corrected by the factory . . . which means that item will be shipped sometime in January.  We apologize for the delay of item no. 70026 to all our customers. 
  • N scale Pacific Car & Foundry 50-ft 70 Ton Insulated Loader-Equipped Box Cars pre-orders are due this Sat. Dec. 8th to your dealers or direct.  We should have painted samples at the end of the month.
  • HO Scale PC-90 Piggy-Packers update:   We anticipate complete tooling of mold work in mid-January. Stay tuned for this model in HO scale!

 

 

 

Monday
Nov052012

Photos of our new insulated box car!

Just posted photos of our new 50-ft 70 Ton Insulated Box Cars!

By the way, if you are in Milwaukee this weekend, come by the Trainfest Show and say hi to us.  Wheels of Time will be at booth 8130.

Saturday
Oct272012

Passenger "Cab" Units

Here's a shot of the variety of modern passenger "cab" units.  Name the type of locomotives (builder, model number) from left to right, resting at San Jose, CA. (Hint: 4 different builders present.)
 

Tuesday
Oct232012

N-scale PC-90 Status

Shipping looks like mid-November!

Friday
Oct052012

Pacific Car & Foundry 50-ft 70 Ton Insulated Box Car details . . .posted

Wheels of Time is please to announce that our new PC&F 50-ft 70 Ton Loader-Equipped Insulated Box Car details are posted (that's a mouthful). It's no wonder that the real railroad world they use mechanical designation as RBL and XLI.  Details including artwork of the cars we are doing, multiple car numbers, MSRP and Pre-Order due date.

For those railroad box car experts out there:  What is the difference between RBL and XLI mechanical designation?