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Today, November 13 we added custom painted USRA 40 foot HO boxcars in the store. These cars are historically significant in that they were the GN's first steel underframe box cars. We have one car number in each of two paint schemes. One is the front facing goat car number 24539 introduced in 1926, and the other is the side facing goat car number 24856 introduced for repaints circa 1939-40. Next in line, and probably in the store by the end of next week, is our new Standard Combination Depot 24x48 foot, to plans dated 1899 in HO. This is...

The Board of Directors recently decided to hold US Membership rates at $30 per year, and to keep the GN/BN veterans rate at $20 per year. The prices of second and third year US Memberships were simplified so that a two year membership is now $60 and the three year is now $85. Another way to look at this is that we offer a $5 discount for the three year membership. As a result of investigating our real extra costs of mailing to the US and Canada, Canadian rates are now $45 per year, and International beyond the US and...

We got a dozen 40 foot Postal cars in today. We have been out of stock on these for many months, as we have been on several other passenger cars. In the course of putting this car in the store, I discovered that, in error, I failed to display the 8-1-2 Pullman that we have had in stock for months. BAD MAC! That caused me to review all of our passenger cars and make all of them active and displayed to you. Those that say "Sold Out" are on back order and will arrive at unpredictable times. All of these...

We established Discounted Pricing for Members June 1, 2020 and sent all members an email at that time explaining how to access the discount, which is 10% on physical items, except apparel. Over the last couple of weeks we have had a run of members who overlooked, forgot, or lost that email. Our new software includes a discount box as part of the checkout process. You must put a secret code in that box. If you do not have the code, which was in that June email, please contact me thru the GNRHS website and I will give you the...

These detail parts are the result of a project of our Modeling Committee. Member Jim Ruffing found a person to cast these detail parts for us, and the entire committee is pleased to offer them to you. There are five stakes in each package to provide a spare for damage in transit, or for one 'uh-oh' in application. These side stakes were a unique feature of these 250 GN mill gondola cars built to an otherwise standard design of the time.