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Wheels of Time decals for our undecorated baggage cars

Wheels of Time — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:48:42 +0000

We placed our orders for a batch of decals from our vendors for these undecorated cars according to the orders we have received plus a little bit more. The decals will be in our hand read to ship on the later half of the week of July 13th. For more details, go here.

For those who have chosen to have Wheels of Time apply the decals, we are looking at finishing at about 2nd week of August +/-.

Inventory alert: We have four RS1-27U Arched roof car left!

Thank you for all for making this fun project possible.

Cheers,

Matthew
Wheels of Time
www.wheelsotime.com

More N scale heavyweight baggage cars!

Wheels of Time — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:38:18 +0000

We are excited to announce more N scale heavyweight baggage cars.

These are undecorated cars that are painted in the traditional Pullman olive green color that are ready for decaling for less common roads and markings. You probably won't find these pad printed from the factory!

We are taking reservations for the decals, so we can make the batch of decals all at once in the quantities you would want. You don't want to miss these!

Expand Your Collection!

Wheels of Time — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:29:42 +0000

Expand Your Collection
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Wheels of Time wishes you the best!

Wheels of Time — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:05:30 +0000

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Thank you from Wheels of Time!

Wheels of Time — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:05:44 +0000

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Getting Ready for the Holidays: Mail & Express Trains in the Pre-Amtrak era

Wheels of Time — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:39:36 +0000

Here is an article which i just wrote. Food for thought in the pre-Amtrak era. Enjoy!

Shipping Update: RS-WOT & Canadian series baggage-express cars

Wheels of Time — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:28:31 +0000

Just a quick note here - We will most likely still be shipping our RailSmith-Wheels of Time and Canadian series baggage-express cars through the 2nd week of August for all our customers' orders. There are a lot of individual orders which we are working through. Hold tight. We haven't forgotten about you. If you haven't ordered, the order "window" is still open. Order them before we sell out. Thank you & Happy Model Railroading!

Important Notice on Tariffs

Wheels of Time — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:59:38 +0000

As you know, we currently have a 104% tariffs on Wheels of Time production made in China and with possible threat to 125%. The tariffs on products made in China are unsustainable for a small business like Wheels of Time and in broader sense will really damage the model railroad industry.

Our current project with RailSmith (N scale baggage-express cars) which will be wrapping up in May sometime will have a line item called "tariffs" that will be collected before we ship those products. At the moment, we don't know how much that will be and how much Wheels of Time can actually absorb.

Additional all Wheels of Time production from China will be curtained until tariff situation becomes economically feasible again.

However, our 3D printed and resin cast products will remain in production since they are made in here locally.

Sincerely,

Matthew Young
Wheels of Time
www.wheelsotime.com

A Waiting and a Warm Wish to You in this Season

Wheels of Time — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:36:47 +0000

A season of waiting. Here at Wheels of Time, I am waiting for my factory to complete the production of our special run of heavyweight baggage-express cars with RailSmith. I am waiting to finish with all the end of year stuff, one must do as a business.

Here in the photo sequence, where we are waiting for the Caltrain special Christmas train to come through. It was late because of an auto was stuck in the tracks. Was it worth the wait? Yes!
Below is my SP C-40-3 caboose #1172 which I built from a modified TrainCat kit - in-between all my work, assignments and family life. Well, mostly finished except the frog eyes and interiors - after more than 10-yrs in the making! Definitely worth the wait.

Waiting is worth it. It's hosting something that is yet to come. It’s like Advent before Christmas.

Regardless how you celebrate this Season, I sincerely wish you the very best. May you be blessed with health, joy and good connections with your family and friends!A waiting for Xmas trainWaiting - 921It's worth the wait!10-years in the making - model of SP C-40-3

June news!

Wheels of Time — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:56:40 +0000

• It's almost summer and Wheels of Time is having a sale on our N scale Fish-Belly Flatcars! Take advantage of this - until June 30th or when stock is sold out.

• As you most of you know, RailSmith has commissioned Wheels of Time for a special run of our N scale 70-ft baggage-express cars to match their "Build-A-Train" You don't want to pass this up. A number of our pre-production samples are to be shown at the N scale Bethlehem Convention @ RailSmith booth.

* On June 21st, Wheels of Time has an exciting announcement.

All the best,
Matthew
Wheels of Time