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]]> http://www.rcslot.com/blog/rcslot-launches-hobbyzip-hobby-videos.html/feed 0 http://www.rcslot.com/blog/athearns-new-athearn-ready-to-roll-product-line.html http://www.rcslot.com/blog/athearns-new-athearn-ready-to-roll-product-line.html#comments Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:59:21 +0000 RCSLOT.com http://www.rcslot.com/blog/athearns-new-athearn-ready-to-roll-product-line.html Carson, CA – Athearn Trains is pleased to announce that it has purchased tooling for twelve different HO truck trailers from A-Line.  The trailers will be part of the Athearn Ready To Roll® line of products.

“These models will give the Athearn® RTR vehicle line the widest variety of HO truck trailers in the market,” stated Athearn President Michael Stephens. “I’m delighted these models will now reach more hobbyists and collectors as assembled and decorated Athearn products,” added A-Line owner Joe D’Elia.

“Hobbyists will start to see these items as assembled, painted and printed Athearn RTR models early in 2008,” added Stephens.

Under the terms of the sale, A-Line will continue to supply the hobby market with the kits and parts for the trailers. A-Line has never sold the items as assembled models.

In 2004, Horizon Hobby, Inc. purchased Athearn and moved it into a state-of-the-art new facility in Carson, California. With the purchase of Model Die Casting, the launches of 1:50-scale precision die-cast products, the 4-6-6-4 Challenger with sound and other exciting new models, Athearn remains the railroad industry leader in quality and value.

Click Athearn Model Trains to see what Athearn products RCSLOT has available.

We’ve setup a Lionel Nascar Train Set to help show customers and those interested in getting into the hobby what a train set is and how it works.  The lights, sounds, and realism are really something.  Here’s a few pictures and video of our demo train set:

NASCAR READY-TO-RUN TRAIN SET. MODEL 7-11004.

The thrill of NASCAR, America’s fastest growing sport, is captured in this new, O gauge train set from Lionel. Designed for NASCAR fans everywhere, Lionel has created a set inspired by the excitement and spectacle of their favorite sport. This set boasts a train as dazzling as any NASCAR vehicle, complete with a colorfully decorated diesel engine, a single-dome tank car, a boxcar with the champion’s trophy, and a caboose like you’ve never seen before!

What’s more, fans can add to the core set by getting one of six expansion packs, each featuring one of the top legends of the sport: Dale Earnhardt Sr., Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, and 2005 Nextel Cup Champion Tony Stewart!

Who better than Lionel to haul the NASCAR race-week experience into homes across the country?

Features:

• GP38 diesel locomotive, single dome tank car, boxcar, flatcar with billboards, caboose, three straight FasTrack sections, eight curved FasTrack sections, a FasTrack terminal section, PowerMax Transformer
• Transformer controlled forward, neutral, and reverse operation
• TrainSounds sound system with diesel engine revving, horn, bell squealing brakes, and operator-controlled, multi-part crew dialog
• Operating headlight
• Dual operating couplers
• Dual powerful maintenance-free motors
• Metal frame
• Operating strobe light
• Operating couplers
• Removable billboards on flatcar
• Interior illumination in caboose

Gauge: O Gauge
Minimum Curve: O-27
Dimensions: Length: 53”
Layout dimensions: 40” x 60”

ShipYear: 2006

Lionel Past & Present

The history of Lionel is more than a history of a product or a company. It’s the joyful experience that brings smiles to faces, brings people together, facilitates quality family interaction, and helps kids learn and develop. While the products are beautiful to look at and built to last for generations, the real draw of Lionel trains is almost intangible. Pick one up and see what emotions and memories it stimulates. Perhaps, like our founder Joshua Lionel Cowen in 1900, you may find yourself onto something you didn’t fully expect or anticipate.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to develop, manufacture, market and service the best electric toy trains and accessories in the world within a competitive environment.

Lead the toy train industry with innovative engineering, flawless manufacturing and superior customer service.
Employ the best people and inspire teamwork and strong communications in an atmosphere of teamwork, trust, openness and innovation. Expose children to the magic of Lionel trains and sprout interest in the toy train hobby. Work closely with our dealer network and share with them some of the decision making processes for future Lionel products.
Keep the magic of the Lionel tradition living for another 100 years.

The Company Today

In the year 1900, in a cramped third floor loft at 24 Murray Street in New York City, Joshua Lionel Cowen began what would become the world’s most famous toy train manufacturer — Lionel Trains. Since that modest beginning, Lionel has sold more than 50,000,000 trains — more than all of our competitors combined.

From the Texas Special F3 and the Executive Inspection Car– classic recreations of iconic 1950’s introductions — to the scale SD-60 and SD-70 “Ironhorses of Today,” quality, innovation, and attention to detail continue to be our passion. Lionel L.L.C., has offices, in Chesterfield, Michigan, not far from the auto giants of Detroit.

What’s next? Lionel will continue to extend its celebrated history of leadership and innovation. Technologies such as TrainMaster® Command Control, the world’s first fully remote control layout operating system (imagine being able to operate dozens of toy trains and accessories from a single wireless remote control) and our unrivaled sound system (close your eyes and listen to the beauty of Lionel RailSounds™: you hear the exact sounds of the great steam and diesel locomotives, past and present) have become the new standard of excellence for model railroading.

The years ahead will see Lionel continuing to unite technology and tradition in a product that will captivate train enthusiasts of all ages — in the next century, just as it has in the last.

All Aboard!

Click Lionel Model Trains to see what Lionel products RCSLOT currently has in stock.

May 30, 2007 – M.T.H. Electric Trains will be attending the Big Train Show in Ontario, California Saturday and Sunday, June 2 & 3 at the Ontario Convention Center.

The just released 2007 RailKing One Gauge catalog will also be available for attendees. Large scale fans in the southern California metropolitan area can find all the details about the show by clicking here.

M.T.H. Electric Trains will also be attending the 13th Annual Manassas Heritage Railway Festival in Manassas, Virginia on Saturday, June 2nd at Historic Manassas Visitors Center.

O Gauge model railroading fans in the Washington, DC metropolitan area can listen and ask M.T.H. representatives questions about the M.T.H. product line, company direction and future plans as well as see product demonstrations. M.T.H. mini-catalogs will also be available for attendees. You can find all the details about the show by clicking here.

You can find a list of all the M.T.H. shows they will will be attending over the next few months by clicking here.

Click here to see what MTH Electric Train products RCSLOT has available.

1:12 Large Scale
1:13.7 7/8 inch scale
1:20.3 G, Three-Foot Gauge on Gauge 1 Track
1:22.5 LGB and Bachman
1:24 Half scale
1:29 Aristo-Craft, USA Trains, standard gauge on #1 gauge
1:32 I scale
1:48 O scale
1:64 S scale
1:87.1 HO scale
1:120 TT scale
1:160 N scale
1:220 Z scale

Checkout Model Trains to see what hobby and model train parts RCSLOT has to offer.

After much anticipation, RCSLOT.com is now live.

Visit the Radio Control and Slot Car Parts Super Store for all your R/C, Slot Car, Model Train, and Super Toy needs. With over 50,000 items available, we’ve brought together all the top name-brand companies in the industries so you don’t have to shop around – they’re all here. Popular Radio Control (RC or R/C) categories include RC Airplanes, RC Boats, RC Cars, RC Engines, RC Helicopters, RC Radios, and RC Trucks. Popular Slot Car categories include 1/24 Scale, 1/32 Scale, HO Scale, and Drag Scale. We even carry HO Scale, N Scale, O Scale, and many other sizes of Model Trains.

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