Despatch Junction

09/04/2026

New from Athearn Genesis! New York Susquehanna and Western SD70M-2 with Tsunami 2 sound, lit number boards, and flashing ditch lights.

09/03/2026

Model Railroaders of Rochester! is shipping their lighted 20th Century Limited coaches, and look what one of them is called. We have them in stock, so stop by and get one for yourself.

07/24/2026

!!NOW IN STOCK!! Did you know that upgrading your classic Cabooses, Coaches, and other lit cars with LED lights can reduce power draw from the transformer, freeing up that power for your engine? All-in-one LED light boards from KG2V are easy to install and come with a capacitor preinstalled, removing the flickering lights for better-looking lighted rolling stock. They work with all scales.

07/15/2026

Check out how cool this is!

One thing that we offer here at Despatch Junction is fully custom lighting. We recently got this Kato Amtrak P42 #17 in at the shop - The thing about Kato with their stock lighting package they use light tubes. Mike recently went above and beyond for this install! Working Ditch Lights, Individually controlled front and rear headlights, Working Directional Marker Lights, Truck Lights and Number Board lights and to top that off ESU Loksound V5 and dual stereo speakers!

Thanks Matt, for giving Mike a real run for his money on this one!

07/01/2026

Bowser makes some of the best model trains in the buisness. We are accepting pre-orders on these now! Give us a call or stop in to place your order!

DESPATCH JUNCTION HOURS:
10:00AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday
10:00AM - 5:00PM Friday and Saturday

We're pleased to announce the first project in a new generation of HO scale cabooses and freight cars from Bowser!

The Despatch Shops N9 and N9E transfer caboose were Penn Central-era clones of a New York Central conversion program using frames of 40ft boxcars. Over 200 examples of these classes and similar cars combined were built between 1968 and 1969. Penn Central and Conrail era cars could be found all across their respective systems in local freight and other secondary service. The prototypes can still be found today, some still working for their original owner!

Our model features roadname and era specific details, etched-metal grating where applicable, interior detail and lighting, and flashing FRA markers per prototype. Interior and auxilary lighting will be controlled with a magnet wand.

https://www.bowser-trains.com/new/N9caboose.html

06/26/2026

Despatch Junction will be closed July 4th in observation of Independence Day.

06/16/2026

Railroad Enthusiasts all around New York State gathered last week to watch Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 pass through for the first time since 1941 as she does her Historic "Coast to Coast" tour around the country.

Both Lionel and Broadway Limited Imports have announced a brand new run of Big Boy as she appears on this tour.

We are accepting orders until friday 6/19/26 so call us to pre-order your own today!

DESPATCH JUNCTION CONTACT:
Email: [email protected]
Phone Number: 1(585)385-5570

DESPATCH JUNCTION STORE HOURS:
10:00AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday
10:00AM - 5:00PM Friday and Saturday

Photo by Chay Sumner

06/10/2026

Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 arrived in New York yesterday for the first time since 1941 when it was built and delivered! We couldn't be more excited about it. Members of staff and our friends are handing out coupons to our store TODAY and TOMORROW that expire on 7/1/26 for those of you wanting a model of your own! Once you're done catching this locomotive in action come on down to Despatch Junction for some Union Pacific power of your own!

We will be running this HO scale #4014 and Union Pacific OCS consist on our store layout THIS WEEK ONLY!

DESPATCH JUNCTION HOURS:
10:00AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday
10:00AM - 5:00PM Friday and Saturday

06/08/2026

Are you going to go see #4014 this week when it comes through NY? We have a special promotion going on to honor the Big Boy coming back to NYS for the first time since 1941! Somewhere along the Southern Tier, Chay will be out catching this locomotive. if you find him, he will have a special 10% off coupon to the store for those of you out of towners and local people down trying to catch the Big Boy, Come in after it and get a model of your own to take home!

DESPATCH JUNCTION HOURS:
10:00AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday
10:00AM - 5:00PM Friday and Saturday

06/03/2026

It's one week until Big Boy #4014 comes to town! Just a friendly reminder to say that we WILL be open for all of those coming from out of town. If you're looking for the COOLEST Model Train store in the North East come check us out if you're in town!

DESPATCH JUNCTION HOURS:
10:00AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday
10:00AM - 5:00PM Friday and Saturday