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20th Century Hobbies, Inc.

Serving the model railroad community since 1977

Welcome to the 20th Century Hobbies home page.

Instructions on how to use this web site:

To see the latest released and announced products, review the lower half of this page and then go to the first item in the left column and click on "What's New!!".   To look for items you are interested in, the best way is by using the Search feature.   Select the scale, then the category within the scale, ie., railroad name, locos, passenger, freight, details/decals/track/structures...  Click on the underlined portion of the reference and it will take you to the selected items.  Use your back button or click on search again to return or travel anywhere on the web site.  The first page after this one you see on the site is the What's New!!! page.  They have now expanded to six or seven pages of "What's New!!" These products will be on these pages for 3 months from their announced data and then drop off, but still will exist in our regular inventory.  These pages will bring you a listing of new things in stock and product announcements by manufacturers. Many items are "announced products" and not yet in stock or released by the manufacturers.  The delivery of these items varies from three to nine months, however it is prudent to order them immediately as the ordering times for new items is usually less than a month.  When ordering items and you have made your selection and filled in the quantity, click on our logo and it will bring you back to the data base to find more products.  We hope you find those things you want and please feel free to contact us at eltrainmaster@copper.net  about any problems you may have encountered.  Thank you.
 
We will have errors on this site such as descriptions and prices and we will fix them as we continue to update the data in the database.  We have loaded about 7,500 pictures of the products and only have another 2,000 to go.  Thanks for your patience during this time.

We have discontinued our newsletters based on spamming restrictions employed by our service provider (ISP)  who won't allow more than 12 email addresses in each sending.  You can see our older newsletters at the following links, but we have on our "What's New!!" page all the new items available to replace the newsletter:

G Scale Newsletter
O Scale Newsletter
HO Scale Newsletter
N Scale Newsletter

 
 

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In Stock Now!!!

Bob Pennisi's "Erie Railroad.....New Jersey Memories"  Softcover color front and back featuring the photos of John H. Riley, Dick Young and W. R. Wright includes all New Jersey areas of the Erie Railroad. 48 pages of  black & white photos of steam and diesel.  MSRP $19.95  our price $17.50 plus postage.  Item # RAE-30.
 
 

New books in stock by Morning Sun of interest to local (NJ, NY & PA) fans:

MSB-1347Trackside Along the Erie Railroad and its
Connections with Jim Kostibos in stock

MSB-1339 DL&W Facilities Vol.3: Scranton to Buffalo with postscript by Jack Emerick

 MSB-1326 Trackside around Eastern Ohio 1965-1995 with Dave McKay by Stephen M. Timko. N&W,PRR, PC, CR, B&O, EL NYC

MSB-1336 Trackside around Western Ohio 1965-1995 with Dave McKay by Steve M. Timko Re-visit the PC,B&O, N&W, C&O, EL, CR

MSB-1333  Lehigh Valley Facilities Volume 2: Wyoming Division

Make your reservation now and save $9.95 (over 15%) from the publishers advance reservation price.

MSB-1354  Lehigh Valley Facilities Volume 3: Buffalo Division due Sept. 2009

MSB-1359 Trackside to the Jersey Shore due in Nov. 2009

MSB-1361New York Central Through Passenger Service Volume 2, Challange due Nov. 2009

MSB-1362 Pennsylvania Railroad Facilities Volume 6 Harrisburg Division

MSB-1363 Steel Mill Railroads in Color due Nov.2009
 
 

The following new books are in stock now!

RRP-10  Bethlehem Steel Railroading from The Railroad Press

TRP-28  From the Railroad Press - Pennsylvania Lines West - Volume 2 Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio 1960-1999 by Steve Hipes & David P. Oroszi

MSB-1317 Trackside in the Rust Belt with Cal Banse by Steve Timko About 1/3 of this book is Erie/Erie Lackawanna, with parts of Pennsy, New York Central, B & O, and a variety of short lines

MSB-1310  Lehigh Valley Facilities Volume 1: New York Division by by Mike Bednar Stations, towers, yards, shops all put in context with trains and operations

MSB-1311 DL&W Facilities Vol.2: Dover to just east of Scranton with postscript by A. J. Erdman

MSB-1303 Erie Lackawanna Through Passenger Service In Color Volume 2 1965-1970:  by John Boehner

MSB-1297 Trackside in the Mid-Atlantic States 1946-1959 with V. Purn and J. Knauff by Kevin Holland and Robert J. Yanosey. Has some DL&W (Lackawanna) content.

MSB-1294 DL&W Facilities Vol. 1:  Hoboken to Dover with postscript by J.R. Canfield

MSB-1286 Erie Railroad Facilities In Color Volume 3: PA, OH, IN, IL by Robert J. Yanosey. Stations, towers, shops and much more on the west end of Erie RR territory
 

All Morning Sun Books are $54.95 including USPS Priority Mail Shipping. MSRP's are $59.95 without postage.
 

Notice:  BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!
We have added a dozen new book publishers and over two hundred new books as well as updating the availabilty of Kalmbach, Carstens, TLC Publishing, Railroad Avenue Enterprises and, of course, the full line of Morning Sun Books.

LIONEL
Harry Potter - Hogwarts Express
at a discount price !!  Limited Stock

Athearn - IN STOCK NOW!

Erie, Reading ALCo RS-3
Erie, C&O, NYC, PRR & D&H 40' Gondolas
PS2 2893 Cubic Feet Covered Hopper Erie 2 numbers
Athearn 25' Trailers in NKP, CN, NYC &
Pennsy trailers in stock.
85' TTX Flat Cars with 2 40' trailers 4 different numbers
60' TTX Flat Cars with 2 stake/box trucks 6 different numbers
40' Exterior Post Trailers, Penn Central & Reading with and without 85' flat cars now in stock!!
 
 

ATLAS in stock now!!
HO NE-6 Cupola Caboose Raritan River #9
ALCo C420 Phase 2a & 2b diesel locomotives in Delaware & Hudson
(2 numbers) with & with Sound & DCC
ALCo RS-3 Road Switchers in Erie Lackawanna (black & yellow), Susquehanna, & Central of New Jersey  2#'s each No sound or DCC
Lehigh & Hudson River (#26 & #29) w/o Sound or DCC and
HO ALCo C420 Phase 2B low nose Silver Series New York, Susquehanna & Western #2000 (black&yellow) with Sound & DCC
The much awaited Morristown & Erie #14 ALCo S-4
Also ALCo S-1's in Reading & ALCo S-2's Lehigh Valley
two different numbers of each.  Boston & Maine ALCo S-4 yard switchers 3 different numbers
HO Ford F-150 Extended Cab Truck Morristwon & Erie
Fairbanks Morse Trainmasters are in stock
Reading 2 numbers with & without sound & DCC
Lackawanna 4 road numbers and one with no # without sound & DCC
Lackawanna 1 road number with sound & DCC left.
HO ALCo HH660 yard switcher in Erie
HO Cupola Caboose Maine Central #657 & #658
HO Cupola Caboose Nickel Plate Road #10135 & #10143
HO RTR Wide Vision Caboose Southern Railway of New Jersey #670

Atlas Announced:
Due Sept. 2009
EMD GP40 New Jersey Transit with and without sound/DCC
EMD GP40 Maine Central with and without sound/DCC
EMD GP38 Lehigh Valley with and without sound/DCC
ALCo C424's Erie Lackawanna wthout sound or DCC 3 different numbers
ALCo RS36 Delaware & Hudson due July 2009
ALCo RS36 Lehigh Valley due July 2009
ALCo RS-3 Lehigh & Hudson River two numbers due July 2009
ALCo RS-3 Delaware & Lackawanna three numbers due July 2009
ALCo RS-3 Rutland two numbers due July 2009
 

BACHMANN O Scale Announced:
A bunch of O and O-27 Diesel Locomotives in local roadnames
See our "What's New!" page for details includes NW-2's, Trainmasters, FA2's, FA1's, Shark's, GE 44 tonners, U33C, and others.

BACHMANN in stock now:
Crane & Tender Reading green & yellow
Baldwin Sharks RF-16's both A & B units -  PRR  & NYC
Baldwin Sharks RF-16's A unit only D&H 2 different numbers
All DCC equipped

Bowser in stock now!
70 ton covered 2 bay hopper kits 3 numbers of each
  Lehigh & New England and Lehigh Valley
HO 100 Ton Open Hopper Lake Erie & Franklin, Reading,
Delaware & Hudson, Reading & Northern and Erie Lackawanna

Broadway Limited Imports: In stock now !!
Erie 2-8-2 steam #3113, Stealth Series, (no sound or DCC)
Erie #3204 2-8-2 Steam with Sound & DCC

InterMountain Railway Company
50' Box Cars - Erie Lackawanna 6 different numbers and
Canadian National 6 different numbers (seen on many EL freights)
Due Soon:
Built Up Passenger Cars from Bethlehem Car Works
Central of New Jersey Coaches
Central of New Jersey Baggage Cars
Erie Streamline Baggage Cars both Pullman Green with yellow lettering and Green, Graygreen & yellow lettering
Erie Lackawanna Gray, Maroon & Yellow Streamlined Baggage Cars
 

LifeLike In Stock:
LifeLike Heritage Series Erie 2-10-2 #4214 Stealth Series,
(no sound or DCC)
EMD GP38-2's in Boston & Maine and Delaware & Hudson

Rapido In Stock:
Steamline Baggage Express Cars - 2  (moveable) doors:
Erie Limited scheme 6 numbers 200 series
Erie Lackawanna Phoebe Snow scheme 6 numbers 200 series
Lackawanna Phoebe Snow 10-5 Sleepers 5 different names
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Phoebe Snow Coaches
5 different numbers
Erie Lackawanna Phoebe Snow sleepers 2 different names
Erie Limited coaches 4 numbers
Erie Limited sleepers 2 different names
Lackawanna Phoebe Snow baggage cars scheme 3 numbers 2000 series
 

 Stewart
Delaware & Hudson C628 Two Tone Gray & Blue, Gray & Yellow
Lehigh Valley C628  4 numbers each available

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