Another great issue featuring the first part of a 2-part series about New Bedford—”The Whaling City”, a very important port for the New Haven RR, both for passengers and freight.
Read all about it…now available at Readville Shops!
NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW
Passenger Train Annual 2003 contains 70+ pages of NYNH&H pictures and history in “New Haven Passenger Powerhouse…Southern New England’s Little Giant” by Geoffrey H. Doughty. To purchase, go to “Store” and it’s right there on the “Featured Items” page !
SHORELINER 45-2 NOW AVAILABLE!
Another great issue with complete information on the Class DEY-7 Diesel-Electric Yard Switchers, with lots of pictures !
Read all about it…now available at Readville Shops!
2024 NEW HAVEN CALENDAR available NOW!
Another beautiful piece of work, which will get you in a good mood from January to December! Be the first on your block to get a 2024 train calendar—and New Haven at that. What could be better!
Rapido Stainless County Cars Now Available!
Readville Shops is now selling the recently-released County Car models from Rapido Trains. These HO models are available in several variations in the three different time periods that they operated on the New Haven: As-delivered with green stripe; McGinnis orange stripe and skirted; McGinnis orange stripe without skirts. If you didn’t reserve these cars, or want additional cars, after receiving your reservation, you can now order them from the Store. You will be “blown-away” by the seven different interiors and overall quality of these cars! All come with LED track-powered lighting and “keep-alive” capacitor. Lights can be turned on/off with the supplied “wand”.
As a special for those reading this announcement, for the next 60-days, you can use a $5 savings per car Coupon, by putting the word “COUNTY” in the “Coupon” box.
NEW! Baseball Cap
Port & Company 6-Panel, Twill Cap. Black with colorful FL9 Locomotive #2023. One-size fits all, with Velcro strap. Available in the Readville Shops Store $19.95 each.
For a limited-time only, NHRHTA members can get $5 off each cap, by typing the word MEMBER (all caps) in the “Add Coupon or Gift Card” box on the “Your cart” page.
2nd-RUN NEW HAVEN COACHES NOW AVAILABLE
Now that all of our customers, who reserved these cars, have received their orders, we can offer them to anyone else who would like these coaches. These cars are as beautiful as the 1st-run five years ago…except they’re even better! They have the great, pin-point axle, free-rolling trucks now, and can no longer be called “lead sleds”. They are offered in all different numbers from the original run, in the three different varieties, and you can now order on-line. Just go to the On-Line “Store” and you’ll see them as “Featured Items”. Your passengers will truly enjoy the ride!
What Car Should We Make Next? A SURVEY
In the latest Shoreliner, you will find a survey, asking which HO New Haven passenger car you would like to see manufactured next. You can photocopy the page, complete and send it in or you can print this copy out and send it or you can cut the page out of your Shoreliner!
You can also email it to Paul Cutler III: paulcutleriii@yahoo.com
If you are a customer, and have appreciated the cars Rapido has previously released, PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY!
Latest SHORELINER Now Available: 42-3
This issue contains:
“Private Commuter Clubs”, which includes
“Commuter Club Car History & Operation” by experts Rich Dupuis and Mike Ribuffo
“Commuter Club Car Equipment” by expert Wayne Drummond.
A fascinating issue about this fascinating service only offered on the New Haven!
NOW AVAILABLE in our Readville Shops Store
Latest SHORELINER Now Available: 42-2
Articles in this issue include: “The Brockton Fair”; “Brockton, Massachusetts: The Shoe City Part 2”; and “More! On Maine Potatoes”. Available from our on-line store “Readville Shops”!
2020 REUNION CANCELLED
The 2020 Reunion Cancelled, due to Coronovirus. Show Chairman Rick Abramson announced in June on “The Forum” that this year’s “Reunion” has been cancelled. I am finding that many of you either don’t know about the “Forum” or never go there. So, here’s the announcement again, in a difference place!
Hopefully, see you all next year at the September 11, 2021 Reunion!
2021 CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE
Our New Haven Calendar for 2021 is now available! Be the first on your block to get the best RR calendar on the market; the first 2021 RR calendar on the market! Along with the cover, there are 18 beautiful color pictures in this 12” X 18” production. Pre-drilled with center hole for hanging.
Price is same as last year and I encourage you to order on-line at our “Store”. It is safer, saves you and me time and saves you money, since you don’t have to fill out a form, send a check, and pay postage. In this day and age, I hate going to the post office and the bank, so keep me home and order your calendar the 21st Century way! Thanks for your support!
COUNTY CARS RESERVATIONS NEEDED
The County Car reservation deadline was put on hold, due to number of reservations to date. Now is the time to reserve these cars or add to the reservation, if you’ve already reserved. Let’s show Rapido that we REALLY want these unique passenger cars, so they will move us up in the production line! Spread the word…tell your New Haven friends.
Here’s the Reservation Form
RAPIDO 41-BNO-11 TRUCKS NOW ON SALE IN STORE
HO-scale 41-BNO-11 “Outside Swinghanger” Trucks are now available from our Store. These trucks, used on all the Stainless cars with 4-wheel trucks, are a perfect replacement for the trucks used on the first-run of the Stainless Coaches by Rapido. The replacements include pre-soldered wires on each truck, allowing all-wheel pickup for passenger car lighting. As this is a new product for our Store, they will be on sale for a limited time. Now’s a good time to do that project you were putting off!
COUNTY CAR #207 "NEW LONDON COUNTY" ADDED IN AS-DELIVERED
Thanks to the NHRHTA design team, Rapido has added another County Car to the selection. It is in the as-delivered green window band scheme. #207 “New London County” is added because it had a phone booth next to the Baggage section. Still has the baggage door and there is an antenna included in the poly bag. If you’ve already reserved your cars, and would like to add this car or replace a car you have reserved with this one, please email me:
Here’s the up-dated reservation form: County Car Reservation
RENEWALS FOR SHORELINER VOLUME 42 DUE NOW!
RENEWALS continue to flow in but just a reminder that we would like them all by March 31st. This saves us having to do time-consuming follow-ups.
WITH THE VOLUME 41 RENEWAL, we added the Credit Card option for paying for New Membership and Renewals; an option appreciated by many members, who now don’t have to write checks. (Many folks ended up stacking the renewal with their other bills, when they had to write a check, and forgot about it.)
THIS YEAR, with our new Website, we now offer ON-LINE renewals to VOLUME 42! Have we finally gotten into the 21st Century, or what? It’s so easy to do:
1. Go to our Website: www.nhrhta.org (hope you have it saved as a “favorite”)
2. Click on “Membership” in the black banner across the top of the Home Page.
3. On that page (“Membership Application”), scroll down to the words in orange “Click here to join today!”, which is under the words “Join the NHRHTA”. Click that orange wording.
4. Now you just follow the questions, starting with “Select an Option”, where you choose your status and pay with your favorite Credit Card.
Isn’t that a “piece of cake”? Now you don’t have to complete a form in writing or use a stamp to mail anything in…the online renewal comes straight to us! And it doesn’t cost you a cent more for this convenience.
We thank you for making our job a little easier!
