New Car Announcement. Fox Valley Models is pleased to announce our transition into the Transition Era with these unique Milwaukee Road Rib Side Boxcars. Our releases will include three body styles: the Long Rib Single Door, the Short Rib Single Door (Ph 1), and the Short Rib Double Door. Paint schemes will cover a time span from the late 1930's up through the '80's. Part numbers and specific schemes will be announced over the next few months starting in Dec. Thanks for looking.
April 22, 2009
New Paint Schemes!
Four new paint schemes on both the FMC 5347 Single Door Boxcar and FMC 5283 Double Door Boxcar. Each car comes in 4 different road numbers and come equipped with Micro-Trains trucks and couplers and etched metal end crosswalks.
FMC 5347 SD Boxcar FVM 8022 Columbus and Greenville FVM 8023 Mississippi Export Railroad FVM 8024 Wisconsin Central with WCCL reporting marks FVM 8025 Guilford in Dark Gray with MEC reporting marks
FMC 5283 DD Boxcar FVM 8080 Burlington Northern FVM 8088 Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (Ex BAR) FVM 8089 Southern Pacific (Ex Golden West Service) FVM 8097 Western Pacific (Large WP)
Cars are due in Aug & Sep. Please reserve yours by May 28. List price is $16.95ea.
February 12, 2009
New Car Announcement. Fox Valley Models is pleased to announce the next transition era Milwaukee Road Rib Side Boxcar - the Double Door car. The first of two paint schemes is the Original "Route of the Hiawathas" with CMStP&P logo used in 1939. FVM 9011 will have Wood roof walks. The second scheme is the late "Logo only" lettering. Milwaukee started using this scheme in the mid 60's. FVM 9017 will use steel roof walks.
The next group of cars are new paint schemes on the PS 5344 Cuft Post Boxcar. 4 new schemes to choose from including FVM 8114 Ann Arbor, FVM 8115 Corinth & Counce, FVM 8116 MMA (Maroon with the outlined logo) & FVM 8117 Terminal Railway of Alabama State Docks.
The last two cars are more Trinity RD-4 hoppers. FVM8309 is lettered for FLCX and FVM8310 is BNSF with the new Powerbar logo. 24 road numbers on each scheme.
Reservations are requested by March 16. The cars will be delivered in Jun and July.